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Kamala-Con: Maya Rudolph Gushes About Finally Meeting Sen. Harris IRL
Comedian Maya Rudolph’s impersonation of Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris was impressive enough to net her an Emmy last week, but Rudolph feels like there’s still room for improvement—particularly after meeting the potential veep in real life recently. “I got to meet her, and she is so fantastic. She is so incredible, she is…
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Armed Campus Police in Texas Bombard Black Student’s Dorm Room After Classmates File False Report
Lashondra Evans can’t stop thinking about all that could have gone wrong the night campus police showed up at her daughter’s dorm room. It had been only a few weeks since 17-year-old Christin Evans’ parents saw her away to college. She had been recruited to cheer at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas,…
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Daniel Cameron Says He Will Release Grand Jury Recordings in Breonna Taylor Indictment After Juror Calls Out Process
Did Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron tell the truth about his office’s presentation to the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case? We could soon find out. Hours after a jury member accused Cameron of using the grand jury as a “shield to deflect accountability and responsibility,” the attorney general announced Monday that he will…
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Los Angeles Times Apologizes for Past Racism in News Coverage: ‘We Owe It to Our Readers to Do Better’
For more than a hundred years, the Los Angeles Times has been charged with telling the story of a city—one that was seized from Mexico in 1848 and has, in the 170 years since, experienced no small number of demographic shifts and racial unrest. In an op-ed published on Sunday, the Times editorial board acknowledged…
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Ballistics Report Seems to Contradict Kentucky AG’s Claim That Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Shot, Injured LMPD Officer
On March 13, 32 bullets tore through Breonna Taylor’s apartment. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Louisville Metro Police claimed Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired first, and that he injured one officer in the leg with that shot. That first shot is a significant one: because of it, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said…
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Ex-Employee Says Whataburger Forced Her Out After a White Woman Complained About Her BLM Mask. She’s Calling for a Boycott.
A 19-year-old Black woman is calling for the public to boycott Whataburger after she filed a discrimination complaint against the company this week, claiming the company forced her out of her job last month because she wore a “Black Lives Matter” mask. Ma’Kiya Congious, 19, was working at an East Fort Worth, Texas, location of…
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Attica Scott, the Only Black Woman in Kentucky's State Legislature, Arrested for Felony Rioting During Breonna Taylor Protest
People continued marching through the streets of Louisville Thursday night to protest the meager charges brought against the Louisville Metro Police department in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Among them was one Rep. Attica Scott (D), the only Black female representative in Kentucky’s state legislature and the lawmaker who has proposed the state’s most substantive…
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Report Finds North Carolina Threw Out Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots at Twice the Rate of White Voters in 2018
Voter suppression isn’t a new phenomenon. But as the country lurches toward a November election in which President Donald Trump has flatly refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose, concerns over the integrity of the voting process are as high as they’ve ever been. Adding to those concerns is a…
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'I'm Exhausted': Anguish Over Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Decision Sparks Nationwide Protests
The only person to face charges for his actions in the early hours of March 13, the day Breonna Taylor was killed, was a former Louisville Metro Police officer who, in fact, wasn’t charged with her fatal shooting at all. On Wednesday afternoon, a grand jury handed down to Brett Hankison three charges of wanton…
