Civil Rights & Social Justice
Former Miami Dolphins Head Coach, Brian Flores has sued the NFL and three teams including the Miami Dolphins, Denver broncos and New York Giants. The 58 page lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday, seeking class-action status. Flores admits that Bill Belichick, under whom Flores worked for 10 years in New England, sent him […]
The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a 25 yr-old black man jogging in a Brunswick, GA. neighborhood, were sentenced Friday to life in prison. The life sentences for Travis McMichael, who fatally shot Arbery, and his father, Gregory McMichael, do not carry the possibility of parole. Their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan will be eligible […]
Esteemed academic and author, Michael Eric Dyson, spoke on “TMZ Live” over the hot-button issue of Critical Race Theory that is quite literally swinging elections, like it did in the state of Virginia but, folks seem to be misinformed about the topic. See story here
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is expressing regrets about his handling of Dave Chapelle’s special ‘The Closer’ and says he should have showed more humanity toward his staff but still stands by Netflix’s decision to stream the controversial act. In an interview with Variety, Sarandos acknowledged that a group of employees were “definitely feeling pain and […]
Dave Chappelle’s new stand up “The Closer” is still catching heat from the LGBTQ+ community but Flame Monroe, a Black trans comic says she’s not in favor of taking Dave’s new Netflix special down because in the world of comedy, nothing is off-limits and she simply doesn’t believe in censoring standups. See story here
Jon Gruden, head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders, resigned shortly after the New York Times reported and unveiled racist, anti-gay and misogynistic emails that spanned a decade. The report included a racist comment about NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith and vulgar criticism of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The emails were discovered during […]
According to the L.A. County District Attorney, over 58,000 marijuana convictions dating back 30 years will be dismissed in Los Angeles County now that marijuana has been made legal in the state. District Attorney George Gascón stated: “Dismissing these convictions means the possibility of a better future to thousands of disenfranchised people who are receiving […]
Crews have removed the Robert E. Lee statue, one of the largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy in the United States, from Monument Avenue Wednesday morning. After a year of major protests and demands for all representation of oppression to be taken down….finally the 13-ton, bronze likeness of Lee on a horse was hoisted off its […]
Three police officers and two paramedics in Aurora, Colorado, have been indicted by a grand jury and are facing charges in the death of Elijah McClain. McClain, a young Black man who was just walking home from a convenience store, was detained, placed in a chokehold and given a powerful sedative in a confrontation with […]
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, along with officers Harry Dunn, Aquilino Gonell and Daniel Hodges, recalled the encounters they had with rioters and praised the efforts of officers as they responded to the Capitol riot in his opening statement to the January 6 select committee. Officer Fanone is now sharing voicemails of hate and […]
Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and the high-profile attorney Benjamin Crump have taken on the case to represent a white teenager who was killed during a traffic stop. The pair have deemed the police shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain “one of the most significant” cases in the fight to push Congress for landmark police […]
A New Jersey man was caught on camera harassing, threatening and yelling racial slurs at his neighbors while daring anyone to do anything about…even giving his address on video, didn’t get the last laugh. On Friday, shortly before 8 p.m., a neighbor called police and accused Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, […]
