OPINION: The Capitol attack was an attack on Black voters that occurred on the day the city of Atlanta made a deliberate choice to vote against corrupt politicians As 2021 officially began with the business of returning emails and virtual school , I was feeling very optimistic about Georgia’s Senate runoff elections due to the…
Muriel Bowser publicized her request to discourage potentially deadly rightwing gatherings in the nation’s capital next week. Muriel Bowser, the mayor of the District of Columbia, has asked the Department of Homeland Security to cancel permits for demonstrations in the district “given the new threats from insurgent acts of domestic terrorists.” Posted on the mayor’s…
50 Cent is calling out Instagram following the app flagging his post about a Black Lives Matter protest. On Jan. 9, the New York rapper took a screenshot of his old post, revealing that it now seems to be censored by Instagram. In the caption, he wrote, “so the IG God’s don’t like my BLM…
More striking details pertaining to Miya “SoHo Karen” Ponsetto‘s arrest were recently revealed, highlighting the ways the 22-year-old uses aggression to deal with her frustration. Last week Ponsetto was extradited by the NYPD from California back to New York to face arrest over assaulting a 14-year-old Black teen named Keyon Harrold Jr., son of famed…
‘This time is solely about healing our country and its citizens,’ Trump said on WhiteHouse.gov. ‘It should not be used for personal gain.’ Nearly a full week after the deadly insurrection in the U.S. Capitol Building, First Lady Melania Trump has something to say about the event. In a lengthy statement published on WhiteHouse.gov, Mrs….
Atlanta is coming off one of its bloodiest years in nearly a quarter century. Violent crime soared as a fiery summer of unrest roiled nationwide. Amid those major protests, the Atlanta Police Department grappled with a number of high-profile brutality cases. That included the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, which led to the police chief’s…
Harris’ team was unaware that the cover photo had been switched until images leaked late Saturday Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has landed on the cover of the February issue of Vogue magazine, but her team says there’s a problem: the shot of the country’s soon-to-be No. 2 leader isn’t what both sides had agreed upon,…
Jason Nightengale had a 15-year record dotted with charges ranging from assault and domestic battery to drug possession and theft. There are more questions than answers this morning after a Chicago man reportedly killed three different people and wounded four others in what is being characterized as random acts of violence. Chicago Police Superintendent David…
Goode died on Dec. 23 from an illness not related to COVID-19 Phoenix city officials, residents and prominent members of the Black community will honor late civil rights icon, city leader and longtime Arizona resident Calvin Coolidge Goode in the coming weeks. Goode died on Dec. 23 from an illness not related to COVID-19. He was 93. A virtual…
The experts will arrive on Thursday and meet with Chinese counterparts, the National Health Commission said in a one-sentence statement that gave no other details Experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Monday. The…
