Spread the love Tweet Miami, FL — A former police chief and several officers have been indicted for falsely charging a black teenager with four burglaries just to show village leaders that they are good at “solving” crimes. While the indictment reads like a Hollywood movie script about bad cops, it’s only the […]
NASHVILLE, TN – The appearance of a black man in a television commercial frightened white viewers and resulted in more than 270 calls to police. “Scared the hell out a me! I saw a black man where there shouldn’t be no black man – in my house,” said Ken Grumman. “I thought I was gonna […]
Last Wednesday, Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, was released from federal prison in Alabama after President Donald Trump commuted her sentence at the request of Kim Kardashian West. The reality TV star, who got involved after seeing a […]
Whitewashed from cowboy movies and lore, the African-American contribution to the shaping of the American West was more significant than previously considered, down to tunes they sang, which were as familiar as “Home on the Range.” In researching songs that would become his album Dom Flemons presents Black Cowboys for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the artist […]
A black activist who has accused police in California of destroying evidence after he was stabbed when caught in the middle of a clash between white nationalists and anti-fascists, has spoken to RT about his experience. Cedric O’Bannon has been covering violent events as an anti-racism activist and independent journalist. In 2016, he was present […]
Spread the love Tweet Corruption within the American law enforcement system is rife. We are watching case after case of ‘good’ cops attempting to hold their own accountable, only to be punished by the blue wall. This blue code of protecting officers, no matter their crimes, is what’s driving a wedge between the […]
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the Protect and Serve Act of 2018 by a vote of 382 to 35. The act — a congressional “Blue Lives Matter” bill — would make it a federal crime to assault a police officer. The Senate version of the bill, which also has broad bipartisan support, goes […]
You may have heard about that unsettling incident last week—the one in which a white Yale graduate student called campus police on a black classmate who’d fallen asleep on the sofa in the common room of their student apartment building. Yale officers detained the black student, Lolade Siyonbola, for 15 minutes in order to, as […]
A video posted to Facebook on Tuesday shows a white police officer choking a black man in prom attire and slamming him to the ground as the man struggles to speak. The incident occurred outside a Waffle House in Warsaw, North Carolina, the preceding Saturday. Anthony Wall, 22, went to the restaurant after attending prom with his […]
On Tuesday, a black graduate student at Yale University posted video of her encounter with law enforcement after a white classmate called the police on her for sleeping on the couch in the common room of the campus building where they both lived. In the video, Lolade Siyonbola says the student who dropped a dime […]