Bush’s “racist AF” comment comes days after South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott proclaimed “America is not a racist country.” Congresswoman Cori Bush called American “racist AF” in a tweet Sunday afternoon. “Our communities wouldn’t have needed to spark a national movement to save Black lives if America weren’t racist AF,” Bush wrote. Missouri Rep. Cori…
Her family’s lawyer and his wife own Breonna, and they watched Thurby with Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, at his office. A horse owned by the attorney of the family of Breonna Taylor and named in her honor won a pre-Kentucky Derby race at Churchill Downs on Thursday. The three-year-old horse named Breonna is owned by…
The 2021 NFL draft began Thursday, April 29. While many highly eager athletes were surrounded by loved ones as they waited to learn the next step of their football careers, former University of Alabama star running back Najee Harris parked himself right at the homeless shelter where he once lived. Before being chosen as the…
“We don’t look like typical federal lawyers,” shared attorney MiAngel Cody. Kevin Fenner had been in prison for 14 years before a guard came to his cell to let him know he had a legal phone call waiting for him. Fenner, 53, was serving two life sentences plus two 30 year sentences under the “three strikes”…
The two major chains reportedly wasted more doses than nearly all states, U.S. territories and federal agencies combined. New data is showing that the two national pharmacy chains entrusted to administer coronavirus vaccines wasted tens of thousands of doses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 182,874 wasted doses of vaccine as of late…
“Opposing critical race theory doesn’t make her a racist,” someone tweeted. “Being racist makes her oppose critical race theory.” TheGrio TV A video has gone viral of a white woman in Missouri who insists she isn’t racist for not wanting her children to learn critical race theory. The clip was captured at a “community conversation”…
A New York Police Department recently settled with a Black woman who sued the department after she was shackled while she gave birth in 2018. The woman’s attorneys announced last month that a U.S. district magistrate judge approved a $750,000 settlement for the young mother of two. NYPD cops bound the woman’s hands and ankles…
Source: Handout / Getty Minnesota prosecutors want the man who killed George Floyd to get a stiffer penalty than prescribed by law. Convicted of second and third-degree murder along with manslaughter, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin faces a minimum of 12 1/2 years when get gets sentenced next month. Attorney General Keith Ellison and…
Bobby Paul Edwards is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for enslaving John Christopher Smith from 2009 to 2014. A former South Carolina restaurant manager has been ordered to pay more than $546,000 in restitution to an employee with intellectual disabilities that he put to work for more than 100 hours a week with no…
The hip-hop industry and its aficionados can do little to deny the South’s influence and contributions, still, according to activist rapper David Banner, little to no thanks is shown to Southern artists. In fact, Banner, who is from Jackson, Mississippi, says rappers and producers from the South have their style copied by others with scant…
