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Louisville Metro Police Accused of Hiding More Than 730,000 Records Related to Sexual Abuse of Minors by Officers
The Louisville Metro Police Department is accused of concealing at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of minors who participated in the Explorer Scouts Program—the department’s mentoring program for youth considering professions in law enforcement—by two police officers and then lying to keep the records from coming to light. The Courier-Journal reports that the…
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Morris Brown College Moves Closer to Regaining Its Accreditation After Nearly 20 Years
I’m an Atlanta-area resident who remembers how huge and devastating the 2002 demise of Morris Brown College’s accreditation was in the city and especially around the Atlanta University Center (AUC), so it warms my heart to report that the historically Black college is one step closer to winning back its accreditation after losing it nearly…
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Georgia’s Secretary of State Announces Hand Recount of Election Ballots
Unless you live under a rock that has been thrown into the conservative fairytale land where rampant voter fraud exists in the U.S., you’ve likely heard that y’all’s soon-to-be ousted president and his band of cowardly Republican beyotch-babies are refusing to concede that President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential race and are desperately clinging…
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Former Louisville Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor Shooting Faces Lawsuit for Sexual Assault
In June, The Root reported that former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison—one of three officers who fatally shot Breonna Taylor and the only officer facing charges related to the shooting (essentially for the bullets that missed, but whatever)—was accused of sexual assault by two women who posted about their experiences on social media. On…
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UN Criticizes US on Police Brutality, the Death Penalty and More After Human Rights Review
The United Nations basically told the United States to check its privilege after a human rights review Monday. Specifically, numerous countries, including U.S. allies, criticized the U.S. on its record for police violence against Black people, the death penalty and the separation of immigrant children from their parents. Reuters reports that during the first U.N.…
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Man Charged With Supplying Kyle Rittenhouse With Rifle Used in Kenosha Shootings
The man who allegedly gave Kyle Rittenhouse the assault rifle he used to fatally shoot two people and injure a third during a protest in Kenosha, Wisc., has been brought up on felony charges. The Washington Post reports that 19-year-old Dominick David Black is accused of giving Rittenhouse the Smith & Wesson M&P-15 rifle that…
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BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Pens Letter to Biden and Harris Requesting Meeting to Discuss Their Commitment to Black People
Despite the fact that Trump and his minions appear to be hellbent on attacking the legitimacy of the 2020 election results, it’s safe to say that Joe Biden will be America’s 46th president. We did it, good people; the orange menace will be vacating the Oval Office in 2021. But for Black people, Biden’s election…
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White Supremacist Propaganda Attacking Black Lives Matter Distributed to Texas Residents
While America was either celebrating or mourning the projected ousting of Donald Trump from the White House this past weekend, racist propaganda flyers made by a self-proclaimed white supremacist organization were sent out to homes in several Texas neighborhoods. Photos of the messages, which were sealed in ziplock bags, were shared with News 4 San…
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St. Louis Couple Files Lawsuit Against Photographer Who Captured Their Gun-Toting ‘Humiliation’
Gun-wielding St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey—aka the people who would come in the mail if you ordered Bonnie and Clyde on Wish—are suing the United Press International photographer who took a picture over the summer that went viral of them doing the thing that is the only reason anyone knows they exist. In…
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Mitch McConnell Referenced Martin Luther King Jr. in His Victory Speech. MLK's Family Graciously Invite Him to STFU
White conservatives love Martin Luther King Jr. That’s not true; what they actually love is invoking his name either to shame Black people who don’t rise to what they consider respectable, or to claim their admiration of him as evidence that they aren’t racist. Either way, Black people are over it. Kentucky senator and old-ass…
