The city of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay the family of Andre Hill $10 million, City Attorney Zach Klein announced on Friday, May 14. “We understand that because of this former officer’s actions, the Hill family will never be whole,” Klein said in a statement. “No amount of money will ever bring Andre Hill back…
“I’d never do that again. I’d never use that symbol again,” Stanfield said LaKeith Stanfield publicly addressed an old music video called “Swastikas and Bones” amid the backlash he faced after moderating a Clubhouse session containing anti-Semitic rhetoric. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, The Judas and the Black Mosiah actor opened up…
Retired NBA star Dwyane Wade is using his platform to talk about politics with the Black community. He and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, appeared at Wall Street Journal’s “The Future of Everything” festival as speakers to talk about politics and social justice. The event took place from May 11 to 13 and offered “unscripted…
The suspected fentanyl overdoses began in January Fentanyl overdoses, including by people taking pills falsely sold to them as Xanax or Percocet, are spreading across Georgia. Officials say they have found clusters in the Savannah and Columbus areas after an initial set of cases was found mostly around Augusta. The suspected overdoses began in January….
More than 800 bills have been filed in 47 states this year with provisions that would expand voting rights, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, Last year, for the first time in more than a quarter-century, Democrats in Virginia took control of the statehouse and the governor’s mansion. Since then, one priority has become…
The shooting took place at 9:50 a.m. Rapper Lil Reese was one of three men whom were shot on Saturday in Chicago at a parking garage. The altercation reportedly stemmed from a issue surrounding a stolen truck. TMZ reported that a Dodge Durango was stolen and at least one of the men were inside the…
The city attorney and mayor have said that adopting the resolution commits the city where Daunte Wright was killed by police during a traffic stop to change, though it is not a final action Elected officials in a Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April approved…
“COVID-19 has shown a bright light on our own society’s failings,” Dr. Anthony Fauci says in a graduation ceremony for Emory University The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States said Sunday that “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to unacceptable health disparities that especially hurt African Americans, Hispanics and Native…
The pro-Palestine marches coincided with Nakba Day, which commemorate the 1948 displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid Israel’s declaration of independence Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and other U.S. cities on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes over the Gaza Strip. Thousands…
So far this year only about 2,500 refugees have arrived, with less than five months left before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 President Joe Biden, under political pressure, agreed to admit four times as many refugees this budget year as his predecessor did, but resettlement agencies concede the number actually allowed into the U.S….
