Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude

freedom of speech

Black Public Figures Are Being Silenced for Calling Out White Supremacy

Blackness is a box. Its sides are close enough that if you spread your arms out far enough, you can touch them with both hands. While its ceiling may be tall, if you fly high enough or long enough, you will eventually crash into it. It is an inescapable boundary that every black person in…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

September 12, 2017
Report: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Helped Police Track Minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore

A social media surveillance program used by police to track and monitor protests in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore relied heavily on data it obtained from social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, according to a report released by the ACLU on Tuesday. Geofeedia is a Chicago-based company that developed a social-media-monitoring product that it marketed to…

By

Monique Judge

Published

October 11, 2016
Politics

Ohio Attorney Faces Jail for Refusing to Remove Black Lives Matter Pin

An Ohio attorney was sentenced to five days in jail after refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter pin she was wearing. According to the Washington Post, an Ohio judge had told attorney Andrea Burton that there had been complaints about her pin and that court officials were not allowed to wear political pins in…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 26, 2016