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Tamika Palmer Files Complaints Against 6 Special Investigations Officers Involved in Breonna Taylor Case
Today marks exactly one year since Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in Louisville, Ky., by reckless police officers who were executing a search warrant that should never have been issued. It’s also been just over five months since it was officially decided that no one murdered Breonna Taylor and that nothing in the way…
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High School Basketball Announcer Who Hurled N-Word at Players and Blamed Diabetes is All White People Who Hate Athletes Who Kneel
By now, many of you have heard about the high school basketball game announcer in Oklahoma who definitely wishes Klan-sketball was a thing. A lot of people are upset at 44-year-old Matt Rowan for referring to members of the Norman High School girls basketball team who kneeled during the national anthem as “fucking niggers,” but…
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Black Man Jailed for Nearly 5 Years Over Murder He Says He Didn't Commit Sues Hertz for Failing to Produce Receipt That Cleared Him
A Black man from Michigan is seeking financial compensation from the rental company Hertz, which he has accused of failing to produce a receipt in a timely manner that would have proven he had nothing to do with a murder he was convicted of. According to CBS News, the lawsuit was filed Tuesday by 47-year-old…
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Texas Police Officer Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of Michael Ramos
The April 2020 shooting death of Michael Ramos in Austin, Texas, was one of those events that remind us that “back the blue” enthusiasts don’t know what they’re talking about when they say that as long as we follow police instructions, we are sure to walk away from a police confrontation alive and unscathed. It’s…
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Texas Student Says Teacher Gave White Students the Go-Ahead to Use the N-Word
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: A lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students. A Black mother in San Marcos, Texas, has filed a complaint with the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District over an incident involving her daughter and a teacher who allegedly told her white students…
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Stacey Dash Denounces Trump and Fox News and Is Now Sunken Place-Free. Well, Not Really, but Kind of…Man, Just Read
Welp, it happened, Black people: Stacey Dash was finally able to Get Out. That’s right, the been-Clueless actor and former Fox Noose…I mean, News contributor has notified the sunken place that she will be vacating the premises ASAP and to please forward all of her mail to Herschel Walker. Dash has decided she will no…
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Michael Regan Confirmed as 1st Black Man to Lead Environmental Protection Agency
On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick for the next Environmental Protection Agency chief administrator, Michael Regan, making him the first Black man to lead the agency in its 50 years of existence. Coming on the heels of a Trump administration that treated science like it was merely a suggestion—a Tinder recommendation conservatives…
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Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Delayed 7 Months. Judge Says Even New Date Is 'Not Written in Stone'
Justice for the shooting victims—as well as their families—of Kyle Rittenhouse is already looking like it’s going to be an uphill battle what with conservatives across the nation adopting him as their new favorite gun-happy mascot and the fact that even violating court orders didn’t result in any real consequences for the 18-year-old. Well, now…
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Georgia Sheriff Reopens Investigation Into Mysterious Death of Kendrick Johnson
Because people don’t typically die and then roll themselves up in floor mats, the mysterious death of Georgia high school student Kendrick Johnson being written off as a freak accident has never sat right with Black people who are familiar with the case—least of all, Kendrick’s family. In 2013, the 17-year-old’s body was found in…
