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Former Ohio Police Officer Charged With Murder in Fatally Shooting Unarmed Black Man Andre Hill
If we’ve learned anything in our fight against police violence and systemic racism in our justice system, it’s that it is damn hard to hold cops who kill unarmed Black people accountable for their crimes. Even when they’re charged in connection with these shootings the charge is almost never murder. I personally believe that the…
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Prosecutors Seek Arrest Warrant and Increased Bond for Kyle Rittenhouse After He Flips Off the Law, Again
The case of Kyle Rittenhouse is fascinating, not because it shows that white men have privilege under the law (because we already knew that), but because of just how many allowances this guy, charged with killing two people and wounding another, has been able to get. As I said recently, 2021 is showing that white…
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Cicely Tyson’s Public Viewing to Take Place at New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church
A force both onscreen and off, Cicely Tyson blazed a trail of her own, lighting the way with elegance, grace, style, class and dignity at every turn. Now, as the icon is laid to rest, Variety reports that the family of the late actress, who died on January 28 at the age of 96, will…
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Capitol Insurrectionist Who Says She’d ‘Do It Again’ Asks Court to Let Her Vacation in Mexico
The first few weeks of 2021 have been a lesson in white privilege for anyone who’d still like to deny its existence in America. We saw a mass of domestic terrorists take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, threatening to assassinate elected officials and even trampling to death some of their own fellow MAGA…
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ICE Deports Black New York Man to Haiti, a Country He Wasn’t Born in and Had Never Been To
We might be out from underneath the bowels of the Trump administration, but the stench of Donald Trump’s America is still as potent as it ever was—especially for those still being victimized by his policies. Last month, 40-year-old financial consultant Paul Pierrilus narrowly escaped joining dozens of immigrants who were carted off to countries they…
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'They're Harboring a Murderer': Protest Erupts After Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Is Welcomed By Cleveland Football Team
Recreational leagues and amateur sports teams not only serve as the perfect opportunity for would-be professional athletes to live out their competitive dreams, but they also provide participants with an alternative for regular exercise and a mechanism to build camaraderie with potential life-long friends or business associates. As someone who’s played recreational sports, I often…
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Board Reverses Firings of Atlanta Cops Who Tased HBCU Students, Dragged Them From Car During Protest
Ever since a national spotlight was put on police violence and systemic racism amid a wave of nationwide protests, cops across America have been big mad and big hurt. They feel they’re being treated as unfairly in the court of public opinion as Black people are treated in actual courts. Here’s the thing, though: Who…