Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty On Aug. 23, 2020, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in front of his kids as he walked away from the police. While Jacob survived the shooting, he is paralyzed, and his life will never be the same. Two days later, a 17-year-old white supremacist drove over state lines and…
Young Dolph’s legacy as a fiercely independent artist and businessman was cemented in the hip-hop universe Two days before he was gunned down while buying cookies at his favorite bakery in Memphis, Tennessee, rapper Young Dolph visited a cancer center where a relative had received treatment. The 36-year-old who grew up on the Memphis streets…
A Wisconsin jury found Illinois native Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty in the killing of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum. The Nov. 19 controversial verdict left many in the nation numb, as video clearly showed him fatally shooting both men. But no one has been more affected than the families left in bereavement by this act….
Authorities say the Philadelphia subway attack on four local high school students was unprovoked and “based on ethnicity”. Four Black teenaged girls in Philadelphia were charged Thursday in an attack on a group of Asian high school students riding a train. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office charged the suspects, whose ages range from 13 to…
An unofficial tabulation showed Byron Brown defeated democratic socialist India Walton Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has been elected to a fifth term with a write-in campaign that lifted him to victory over India Walton, the democratic socialist who became a rising star of the left when she defeated him in the Democratic primary, a count…
Darryl Banks, who served four decades on the board, resigned after he claims Coe College did not consider diverse applicants in search for new president Alumni and students are protesting Coe College’s treatment of a prominent Black trustee who resigned after criticizing the school’s recent presidential selection process as lacking in diversity. Darryl Banks, a…
“Trouble in Mind,” which opened to acclaim off-Broadway in 1955, is an uncomfortable exploration of the racial divide in the 1950s Alice Childress’ searing play Trouble in Mind has finally made it to Broadway and the only frustrating thing about the show is that it has taken this long. The two-act play takes place —…
Ciara‘s COVID-19 discussion at the White House on Wednesday, Nov. 17, got sidetracked after the singer’s son Win Harrison Wilson,1, became the main attraction. During her visit to the Oval Office, Ciara, who came with her three children, shared her oldest son Future Zahir Wilburn’s experience with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in hopes to promote it. Ciara’s…
Parents file federal lawsuit after Black doll hung from noose at Bloomfield Hills High School The parents of a Black student have filed a $150 million lawsuit against a suburban Detroit school district over allegations of death threats and racial discrimination against their daughter and other Black students. The federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Detroit…
Kyle Rittenhouse’s criminal trial struck many activists as unusually deferential to the defendant For many Black Americans, Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal on all charges by a Wisconsin jury on Friday confirmed their belief in two justice systems: one for white people and another for Black people. Rittenhouse, the two men he killed and the man he wounded were all…
