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Dallas Cop Who Killed Botham Shem Jean After Intruding into His Home Identified [Updated]
Dallas Police identified the off-duty, uniformed police officer who shot and killed a black man in his own apartment as Amber Guyger, a four-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. Guyger claims that she mistook Botham Jean’s South Side Flats unit for her own. On Saturday, prominent civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Dallas-based Lee…
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Meet the Black Woman Behind Reversing Roe, Netflix's New Documentary About the Legal Battle Over Abortions
Like many women in media—particularly women of color—Keli Goff wanted to be like Oprah. But not for the fame or the Oprah-size paychecks. “I always admired the fact that, for her, being on camera was really a starting point,” Goff said, praising the media’s mogul’s ability to transform that platform into other avenues to tell…
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Walking Pile of Fecal Matter George Zimmerman Allegedly Threatened Beyoncé Over Trayvon Documentary
A series of text messages sent to a private investigator appears to show George Zimmerman threatening Beyoncé over the recently premiered docuseries, Trayvon Martin: Rest in Power, produced by Jay-Z. According to the Blast (h/t Vibe), which obtained the messages, Zimmerman sent the texts to Dennis Warren, a private investigator who worked on the six-part…
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Family, Mourners Remember the Life of Botham Shem Jean, Killed in His Own Home by a Dallas Cop
As the circumstances surrounding Botham Shem Jean’s shooting death remain cloudy, mourners gathered yesterday to pay tribute to the 26-year-old Caribbean native who was gunned down in his own home by a uniformed Dallas police officer on Thursday night. The cop, who remains unidentified, was off-duty at the time of the shooting, and claims she…
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After Backlash, the Oscars Backtrack on the Best Popular Film Category (for Now)
Looks like the Oscars are putting that whole Best Popular Film category idea on ice, at least for the moment. On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced they would not be introducing the new category this year because of the “challenges” posed to films that have already been released. “The Academy…
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Michael B. Jordan Takes the Lead in New Warner Bros. Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
The last two years have shown Hollywood that diversity in front of and behind the camera pays major dividends, both in quality and box office receipts. No surprise, then, when Warner Bros. launched a new policy aimed at bringing more underrepresented talent into their productions—and they’re tapping one of Hollywood’s top leading men, Michael B.…
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A Harlem Restaurant Owner Tried to Help an Unconscious White Woman. Now, He’s Suing the NYPD for False Arrest
The owner of a well-known Harlem restaurant and two of his employees filed a civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD last week over a 2017 altercation involving a group of white women. Dr. Clyde Pemberton, a 68-year-old retired psychiatrist, and owner of MIST, says the NYPD violated his civil rights and arrested him and his…
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For Decades, a Predominantly Black and Latinx Indiana Town Suffered from Toxic Contamination. Mike Pence Looked the Other Way
While many are still speculating about whether it was Vice President Mike Pence who wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times about the “resistance” in the White House, it’s worth remembering who Pence really is—a man who has a pattern of neglecting the lives, issues and well-being of people of color. A new…
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Watch: Common Rallies Behind Michelle Obama to Get Out the Vote [Corrected]
As part of a major push to bring more black Americans out to the polls this November, rapper and actor Common has joined #ForeverFirstLady Michelle Obama as part of her When We All Vote campaign. Today, he dropped a video urging black people to turn out to the midterms in a couple months. “Did you…
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New Study Says the Record of Chicago Cop Who Killed Laquan McDonald Could Have Predicted Deadly Encounter
A new study that analyzes more than 10 years of civilian complaints finds that Chicago police officers with the highest numbers of complaints are also the most likely to have high-profile (and high-cost) civil rights lawsuits filed against them in the future. I know, I know. That would appear to be fairly obvious, right? The…
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