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Louisiana Governor Pardons Plessy, 125 Years After ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling in Plessy v Ferguson
30-year-old mixed race shoemaker, Homer Plessy, was arrested for sitting on a whites only train car in 1897. The case made way for decades of segregation laws.
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US Authorities Arrest Suspect In Assassination of Haitian President Last Summer
A mercenary group of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans carried out the attack at Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s private residence last July.
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Rep. Bobby Rush Announces Retirement After 15 Terms, 30 Years in Congress
The former Black Panther leader was first elected to the house of Representatives in 1992 and beat former President Barack Obama in a House primary in 2000.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Banned From Twitter and Facebook for COVID-19 Misinformation
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ran to social platform GETTR to complain about the “censorship.”
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Kenosha Prosecutors File More Than 90 Criminal Charges In Last Year’s Protests
The ensuing chaos eclipsed the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake
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Autopsy Rules Black Kansas Teen’s Death in Custody a Homicide
The autopsy contradicts the original preliminary report that 17-year-old Cedric Lofton received “no life-threatening injuries” in the struggle.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweets Kwanzaa Is a ‘Fake Religion’
“It’s a fake religion created by a psychopath,” Greene tweeted on Sunday, the first day of Kwanzaa.
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Grand Jury Indicts Former Security Guard in Alvin Motley Shooting
Originally charged with second-degree murder, a grand jury found reason to charge Gregory Livingston with first-degree murder instead.
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‘It Just Went Chaotic’: A Weeping Kim Potter Takes the Stand
Former Minnesota officer Kim Potter spared no tears while performing her testimony before a mostly white jury.
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Daunte Wright’s Father Testifies on Day 6 of Kim Potter Trial
“I miss him a lot, every day,” Daunte Wright’s father, Arbuey Wright, said on the stand Wednesday.
