Detroit Police Shot a Mother Six Times, Now She’s Coming For a Big Payday
After Trump Uninvited Gov. Wes Moore From White House Dinner, These White Governors Take a Stand
Candace Owens Trashes the MAGA-Friendly Kid Rock Super Bowl Halftime Show, and It’s Not Pretty
What Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Says About Who Shapes Today’s Mainstream
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Prosecutors Say 20-Year Veteran of NYPD Attacked Cop at Capitol ‘Like a Junkyard Dog,’ Beat Him With Metal Pole
A former officer with the New York Police Department, whose duties once included guarding City Hall and the mayor’s residence, has been charged in what prosecutors describe as a rabid attack on a Capitol officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Thomas Webster, a 54-year-old man who spent 20 years with the NYPD before retiring, is…
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Grand Jury Declines to Charge Rochester Police Officers in Daniel Prude’s Death
On Tuesday, Rochester, N.Y., continued America’s long-standing tradition of not holding police officers accountable for their careless actions when dealing with Black people. On March 23, last year, Rochester police officers encountered Daniel Prude while he was walking naked in the street. Prude was clearly in need of help, but instead of receiving the care…
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Video Shows Louisiana Cop Apparently Placing Black Child in Chokehold
An investigation has been launched by the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana after a video released shows one its officers apparently holding a 13-year-old Black child in a chokehold. According to NBC News, officers were responding to a call about a disturbance last Sunday. Baton Rouge police Chief Murphy Paul told reporters that the…
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Southern Poverty Law Center Estimates 160 Confederate Monuments Were Taken Down in 2020. We Need to Pump Those Numbers Up
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), estimates that approximately 160 Confederate monuments were taken down over the course of 2020. Come y’all, those are rookie numbers, we need to pump those numbers up. The Associate Press reports that the SPLC has released the figures as part of its “Whose Heritage?” database that keeps track of…
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Douglas Turner Ward, Co-Founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Dies at 90
Playwright. Tony-nominated actor. Director. Advocate. Those are just a few words to describe theater great Douglas Turner Ward, who died on Saturday, February 20 as confirmed to The New York Times by his wife. The Times reports that Ward passed away in his Manhattan home at 90 years old. The cause of his death has…
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother Files Civil Lawsuit Against Son’s Killers, Glynn County Officials on Anniversary of Death
One year to the day that 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down by Travis McMichael and his father Greg McMichael while jogging through a neighborhood in Glynn County, Ga., Arbery’s mother has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court seeking $1 million in damages for his death. Wanda Cooper-Jones filed the suit at a U.S.…
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Bobby Shmurda Is Free and Yes, We're All Waiting for the Fitted Cap He Flung Into the Air to Return to His Head
It seemed like a combination of “about a week ago” and forever ago that Bobby Shmurda had us all doing the Shmoney dance in the club to his hit song. Hell, it seems like forever ago that we’ve been in a club (those of us following COVID-19 protocols, anyway). That song, “Hot Nigga” (or “Hot…
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Security Officials Testify to Senate That Violent Capitol Insurrection Was Unforeseeable, Blame Breakdown in Intelligence
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the former chief of Capitol Police, Steven Sund, stridently denied that the violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by white supremacists on Jan. 6 was able to happen because of poor planning by security officials. In his testimony at the Senate’s joint oversight hearing into security failures related to…
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Since Ted Cruz Couldn’t Stay In Cancun, Someone Sent a Mariachi Band to His House
Texans without heat in the freezing temperatures were still thinking about their senator and his missed vacation when they came up with the brilliant idea to send a little bit of Cancun to his home just to show him how much they care about him. On Sunday, a mariachi band played outside the home of…