BALTIMORE — AT the moment, what’s going on in Baltimore seems to be all about Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who was viciously attacked by police officers on April 12 more or less because he looked at them. They subdued him; his spine [...]
By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. April 28, 2015 2:18 PM EDT Updated: April 28, 2015 2:59 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; Unknown Source/Social Media As most Americans were sitting down to dinner Monday night, Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan was declaring a state [...]
By rboylorn | Originally Published at The Crunk Feminist Collective. Photograph; A Baltimore mom, her only son, love, and Freddie Gray. I planned to write a blog about the unconscionable inconsolable injustice that is plaguing the black community right now. I was going to write about how [...]
On Feb. 10, 2013, 31-year-old sheriff's deputy Cory Cooper pulled over a 19-year-old woman and her boyfriend in Omaha, Nebraska. After finding marijuana in the vehicle, Cooper ordered the boyfriend to toss the drug in the nearby Zorinsky Lake, according to the Omaha World-Herald. While the [...]
Local advocates are poised to win a campaign for justice that’s broader than individual civil suits can offer. By Zach Stafford | Originally Published at The Nation. April 22, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Stanley Wrice speaks with the media after being released from prison after [...]
Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks may be the next face featured on the U.S. $20 bill—that is if WomenOn20s (W20), a grassroots organization committed to the realization of female representation on the nation’s currency, has anything to say about it. After a “robust” voting process spearheaded [...]
On March 21, 2012, 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was fatally shot in the back of the head. Chicago Police Detective Dante Servin had been off-duty when, around 1 a.m., he approached a group that included Boyd in his car. After one of the individuals present, 39-year-old [...]
By Donovan X. Ramsey | Originally Published at Gawker. April 10, 2015 11:45AM | Image by Sam Woolley; Photographic Credit; Shutterstock Late Tuesday, news broke that yet another unarmed American, a black man named Walter Scott, was killed by a white police officer. As with Tamir Rice, [...]
Kayleb Moon-Robinson was 11 years old last fall when charges — criminal charges — began piling up at school. Diagnosed as autistic, Kayleb was being scolded for misbehavior one day and kicked a trash can at Linkhorne Middle School in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the Blue [...]
