Civil Rights & Social Justice
Former tv wife, Phylicia Rashad, was overjoyed after Pennsylvania’s highest court sided with Bill Cosby’s lawyers in agreeing that an agreement with a previous prosecutor should have blocked evidence used against him in the criminal conviction case, overturning the conviction and freeing Bill Cosby instantly. After showing her support, many began to attack her for […]
D.L. Hughley never ceases to make us think with his brash and sometimes harsh comedy, and this time his sights are on the Juneteenth federal holiday as he spoke with TMZ. “Black people have been demanding justice and equality, but instead got a 3-day weekend. Yeah, no one’s gonna complain, but what about the justice […]
President Joe Biden signed legislation into law on Thursday establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United. The ceremony took place in the East Room with members of Congress, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, local elected officials, community leaders and activists. The President […]
According to , the U.S. Senate made a unanimous vote to make Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the last of enslaved African Americans in Texas, learning that they were free on June 19, 1865. Since Texas began recognizing Juneteenth as a holiday in 1980, 48 other states have approved of the holiday. Republican Senator […]
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the video showing the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, was awarded a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. According to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Frazier won the citation “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the […]
George Floyd’s family will meet with President Biden at the White House on Tuesday. The visit marks the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death, which triggered international protests against police brutality and racism in the United States criminal justice system. George Floyd died after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck for […]
The Tulsa Race Massacre is now considered one of the worst racially violent events in American History where as many as 300 Black people died, 10,000 homeless and the all-Black community of Greenwood was destroyed. 107 yr-old Viola Fletcher, her 100-year-old brother, Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis, and a third survivor, 106-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle, […]
Brandon Mitchell, one of the jurors in the trial, has given interviews since Chauvin’s conviction and is now defending his attendance of the 2020 March on Washington amid criticism from those who are attempting to push it as an angle for an appeal. In recent days, a photo has surfaced of Mitchell at the historic March […]
The family of a 42-year-old Andrew Brown Jr. said Tuesday that an independent autopsy shows he was shot five times, including once in the back of the head when officers opened fire on him while serving a warrant. Andrew Brown Jr.’s relatives and attorneys announced the results of the postmortem exam they commissioned during a […]
According to WAVY, a state of emergency has been declared in Elizabeth City, N.C. in preparation for the release of the officer body-cam footage in the shooting and death of Andrew Brown Jr., an unarmed Black man, while executing a warrant. The family of Brown, along with the family attorney, have been shown a 20 […]
Keith Ellison, Attorney General and lead prosecutor in Chauvin’s trial, admitted on “60 Minutes” Sunday night that he “felt a little bad” for the defendant afterward the guilty verdict. Ellison says above all though, he felt gratitude, humility and a sense of satisfaction for holding Chauvin accountable for what he did because he deserved to Abe […]
A U.S. senator has accused NBA Player Lebron James of “inciting violence” against a police officer after sharing a picture of the police officer who shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant outside a home in Columbus, Ohio with the caption “you’re next.” Lebron has since deleted the post saying that his message was “being used to […]
