Stacey Abrams Is Not Your Superhero, Mule or God. She Is a Black Woman With a Vision You Can Honor by Showing Up for Black Women, TooThere’s a thin line between celebration and the kind of deification that can veer into a sort of dehumanization, and…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 6, 2021
Body-Camera Footage of Chicago Police Running Over Black Woman With Car in 2019 Released After Court OrderThe Chicago Police Department is notorious for its use of force–especially against Black residents of the city–as…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 6, 2021
U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Jessica Mitchell Shot Dead on New Year's Day, Military and San Antonio Police InvestigatingA 30-year-old Black U.S. Army drill sergeant was fatally shot on New Years Day in San Antonio, Texas, in an unsolved…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 3, 2021
Florida Man Formerly Known as 'Dr. Love' Arrested Again on Fraud Related ShenanigansMalachi Love-Robinson, the Florida man who spent much of his teenage years posing as a medical doctor, is again in…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 3, 2021
Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell's Homes Vandalized By People Who Appear to Be Peeved At Tiny Stimulus ChecksThe new year started for many of us with the long-debated $600 in stimulus money from the federal government landing…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 3, 2021
Opposition To the Term Karen Continues Because an Unwillingness To Tackle Racism Continues, Despite the Brief Reckoning in 2020Whenever Black people collectively and specifically speak to the realities of anti-Blackness, there is often…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 2, 2021
Vaccine Rollout Plagued By Slowdowns, Health Care Worker Refusals, Sabotaged Doses, and MoreI hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 2021 won’t be that much different from 2020 if the country (and the world…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 2, 2021
Dolal Idd the First Person Killed By Minneapolis Police Since George Floyd, City Releases Body Cam Footage of ShootingBefore the close of last year, Minneapolis police recorded the fatal police shooting of a Black man named Dolal Idd.…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedJanuary 2, 2021
Nashville Police Were Warned Last Year That Suicide Bomber Was Building Explosives in His RV, But Didn’t Search ItThere’s been a curiously quiet reaction to the Christmas Day RV bombing that took place in downtown Nashville last…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 30, 2020
Police Say They’ve Identified and Will File Charges Against Karen Who Attacked Black Teen on False Accusations of Phone TheftThe NYPD is planning to lay assault charges against the woman captured on camera over the holiday weekend…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 30, 2020
Citing Grainy Video Footage, Justice Department Says It Won't Charge Officers in Tamir Rice’s KillingThe year is ending on a less than hopeful note in terms of justice for Black lives taken by police.ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 30, 2020
Woman Falsely Accuses Black 14-Year-Old of Stealing Her Phone, Gets Support From Hotel Manager, and Then It Turns up in an UberDespite all that has happened this year, from Amy Cooper calling the cops on a Black man who asked her to leash her…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 27, 2020
Martin Henry Freeman, First Black College President in the US, Honored With Sculpture in VermontSlowly but surely, efforts are being made to balance the scale in the documenting of this country’s history, in part…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 27, 2020
Los Angeles Officials Trying To Determine if Increase in COVID-19 Cases Is Due To Mutated StrainThe end of the year has brought with it a mutated strain of COVID-19 which reared its head in the United Kingdom…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 27, 2020
Indiana University Health Responds to Black Doctor's Video of COVID Treatment: Nursing Team 'May Have Been Intimidated'Dr. Susan Moore died days before Christmas at 52, after a protracted battle to get racially equitable treatment at…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 27, 2020
71-Year-Old Black Man Sues Police in South Carolina For Holding Him Naked Outside His Home at GunpointMore evidence continues to be revealed that police regularly practice cruelty against Black people in America. ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 26, 2020
President Trump Spends Holiday Golfing and Tweeting From Florida While COVID-19 Relief Bill Languishes in LimboAfter throwing a wrench into Congress’ plans to pass a desperately needed COVID-19 relief bill (insufficient though…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 26, 2020
RV Explodes in Nashville in Apparent Intentional Christmas Day Attack, Police Say They May Have Found Human Remains on the SceneThis year is determined to bring the dramatic and unexpected until the very last minute. Case in point: a…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 26, 2020
Habari Gani? This Kwanzaa, We’re Celebrating All the Beautiful and Resilient Blackness We Saw in 2020Kwanzaa is a Black holiday that takes place between December 26 and January 1 each year, during which Black people…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 26, 2020
Ohio Police Leave Bodycams Off and Kill Unarmed Black Man Who Had a Cellphone in His Hand. Incident Captured on Video AnywayI’m angered and exhausted to report that another unarmed Black man has been killed by police, this time in Columbus,…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedDecember 23, 2020