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Unrest in Haiti as President Rejects Call to Step Down, Arrests Opponents for Alleged Coup Attempt
Political unrest in Haiti resulted in the arrest of more than 20 people in the nation’s Port-Au-Prince capital over the weekend, as President Jovenel Moise continues to deny requests from opposition leaders and members of the public to step down from office. Moise’s opponents say that his presidential term should have ended on Sunday, February…
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New York Times Reporter Resigns After Report on His Racist Remarks, But Now 'Woke' Journalists Are Being Blamed
Media institutions continue to grapple with the question of how exactly to take responsibility for their roles in maintaining systemic racism against a stubborn culture that continues to dither about whether incidents of alleged racism are really that problematic or just evidence of “wokeness” gone too far. Wokeness, of course, is the pejorative that has…
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Democrats Plan to Go After Child Poverty With $3,000 Payment Per Child Under COVID Relief Package
Democrats are using the opportunity presented by President Biden’s economic relief package to propose legislation that could further end the financial struggles experienced by families with children. The Washington Post first reported on the bill, led by Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), which is set to be unveiled today. If passed, the measure would expand…
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NAACP and BeBe Winans to Educate Country Singer Morgan Wallen on Why the N-Word Is Bad
In the year 2021, there are apparently white people in America who don’t know they’ll be looked upon badly for using the n-word, and there are apparently Black people still willing to educate them out of their supposed innocence. Such is the case of country singer Morgan Wallen, someone I was happily unaware of until…
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Mother of 9-Year-Old Who Was Pepper Sprayed by Cop Says She Will Sue; Rochester Mayor Announces Police Reform Proposals
Mayor Lovely Warren of Rochester, N.Y., is recommending that the city be allowed to fire police officers for cause, along with several other proposals to reform policing in a community that has made headlines for the brutality of its law enforcement. Body-camera footage released earlier this week showed officers from the Rochester Police Department pepper-spraying…
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Black Police Officer Dies by Suicide After Lambasting Police Brutality
A 43-year-old deputy with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana died by suicide earlier this week after posting videos on social media in which he spoke out about a system that does “not give a damn about people” like him. Deputy Clyde Kerr III took his own life outside the sheriff’s office on Monday,…
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House Votes to Eject Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene From 2 Committees
In an unprecedented move, the House voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments. On Thursday, in a vote mostly along party lines—11 Republicans sided with the Democrats—the House passed the resolution 230-199 to remove Greene from her assignments on the budget committee, and the education and labor committee, according to…
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NYPD Anti-Discrimination Head Fired for Virulently Racist Internet Posts, But, of Course, Keeps His Pension
Inspector James F. Kobel of the New York Police Department has been fired after an internal investigation found he was behind a bunch of racist, sexist, and overall bigoted comments posted on an online message board under the name “Closeau.” The New York Times, which first reported on Kobel’s nasty online persona, shared the news…
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Prosecutors Seek Arrest Warrant and Increased Bond for Kyle Rittenhouse After He Flips Off the Law, Again
The case of Kyle Rittenhouse is fascinating, not because it shows that white men have privilege under the law (because we already knew that), but because of just how many allowances this guy, charged with killing two people and wounding another, has been able to get. As I said recently, 2021 is showing that white…
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28 Days of Black Joy: The Ties That Still Bind Us Together
I’m a Black woman who was born and raised in Jamaica, an island in the Caribbean you might have heard of (whether for its music or its food or its incredibly fast track stars). Being Jamaican can almost seem synonymous with being Black, since over 90 percent of the population is of African descent (I…
