Violence interrupter grassroots programs are forming in communities across the country and employing alternative strategies to curb violence When Rasheedat Fetuga became a teacher, she worked hard to help protect her students, many of them poor and from a nearby housing project. When one of her favorites was shot and killed at 16, she stood…
A former Georgia deputy and U.S. Marine who bragged in messages with members of an extremist group that he had brutalized a Black man in custody and that he intended to charge Black people with felonies to keep them from voting was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison, plus one year of supervised…
Impact Church hosts second vaccination drive as more Florida residents warm up to the idea of being protected against virus A church in north Florida is grappling with the spread of a COVID-19 Delta variant among its congregation after multiple members died of the disease within the past two weeks. Six members of Impact Church,…
As Democratic lawmakers attempt to snuff out restrictive voting legislation in Texas, there are signs the stalemate may be thawing Texas Democrats still refused to return to the state Capitol on Saturday as Gov. Greg Abbott began a third attempt at passing new election laws, prolonging a monthslong standoff that ramped up in July when…
Tyler Fairley, who was unvaccinated, passed nine days after testing positive for COVID-19 A 17-year-old Georgia high school football player died of COVID-19 complications after he was sent home twice by the hospital where he sought care, according to the teenager’s parents. Tyler Fairley, a student-athlete at Douglas County High School west of Atlanta, succumbed…
Felix leaves the stage having won the most medals of any track athlete in U.S. history and trails just one person in the Olympic record book Allyson Felix knows the way to the Olympic medals stand better than any runner alive. She made her record-setting 11th trip there Saturday, after starring as the headliner on…
Elmore Bolling Initiative to receive more than $235,000 to maintain school building A foundation named for a Black man who was lynched in Alabama is being awarded more than $235,000 to preserve a school that was important to the Black community in Lowndes County. The Elmore Bolling Initiative is receiving money to preserve the Lowndesboro…
Melvina Bogard faces felony aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct charges A Chicago police officer who shot an unarmed man in the back as he tried to escape capture by running up an escalator in a busy subway station has been charged with felony aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct, prosecutors said Thursday….
U.S. sprinter Allyson Felix will forever be an Olympic legend after becoming the most decorated track and field athlete in American history. Felix, 34, received her eleventh medal on Aug. 7 in Tokyo when the women’s U.S. 4×400 team — Sydney McLaughlin, Felix, Delilah Muhammad and Athing Mu — won gold with a time of…
Thomas was “the quintessential cool cat in the group,” the band says in announcing the musician’s passing Dennis ‘Dee Tee’ Thomas, alto saxophonist and co-founder of hit-making funk and pop band Kool & the Gang, passed away Saturday at the age of 70. The legendary music group announced Thomas’ death in a statement on Facebook,…
