Surprise Underground Railroad Safe House Found Inside Historical NYC Mansion
What Happened After an Atlanta Teen Was Shot in Her Own Home Minutes Before Her 18th Birthday
FAMU President Issues Comment After Student Claims Flyer for ‘Black’ Event Was Rejected
Ketanji Brown Jackson Claps back at GOP Criticism
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Home of Retired Correctional Officer Raided in No-Knock Warrant by NYPD
You would think Breonna Taylor’s death would have seen no-knock warrants quickly banned nationwide and cops being more proactive about making sure they’re actually targeting the right places when using one. Yeah, nah. A retired corrections officer had her home raided last month by narcotics officers in the New York Police Department. According to the…
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During Heated Press Conference, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Says Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright Meant to Use Her Taser
In what feels like a horrific sense of déjà vu, there has been growing unrest in Minnesota after an unarmed Black man was shot and killed by police over the weekend. During a heated press conference, the chief of the Brooklyn Center Police Department released body camera footage of the incident. According to the Associated…
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Black Woman Arrested After Charles Schwab Deposited $1.2 Million in Her Account and She Refused to Give It Back
Quavo took the Bentley back. Don’t act like you didn’t call him petty when you learned that after Saweetie broke up with one-third of the Migos and his petty-ass took the Bentley back from his then-boo. Well, keep that same energy. Charles Schwab & Co. reportedly deposited some $1.2 million into Kelyn Spadoni’s account and…
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Why the Virginia Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed the Black Lieutenant Is Just Now Losing His Job
White America is exhausting. Their racism is maddening. Their reasonings, their faux outrage, their hatred for Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling, their complacency for Derek Chauvin’s knee to the neck of a Black man. And I keep getting caught up in it. We all do. Before we didn’t have proof. Technology hadn’t caught up with white America’s…
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Kyrie Is Not Your Negro
As Kyrie Irving made abundantly clear this weekend, the n-word isn’t for everybody. While there are people like myself who can’t recall the last time they didn’t deploy it as a term of endearment, a convenient expression of excitement or confusion, or a final warning before violence ensues, there are also people like our former…
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Protests Erupt After Police Shoot and Kill 20-Year-Old Daunte Wright During Traffic Stop In Minnesota
Police shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop Sunday in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis. The shooting fueled protests in the area into Monday morning. Details about the shooting are still being gathered, but so far this is what we know, according to the New York Times: Officers pulled Wright over Sunday afternoon for…
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Brian Kemp Says MLB Moving All-Star Game Hurts Minorities, Because White People Love Pretending They Know What's Best for Black People
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again anyway: White conservatives are annoying AF. Their dedication to being obtuse, gaslight-prone and wilfully disingenuous makes them the living embodiment of nails on a chalkboard, and among their most irritating practices is the one where they pretend to care about race when it suits…