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 [...]
The first step to being a white anti-racist ally is doing the work of learning on your own. By Kali Holloway | Originally Published at AlterNet. April 8, 2015 [People of color] are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate [...]
By Brianna | Originally Published at Chocolate, Pomp, and Circumstances . February 21, 2015 I read way too many internet comments, so I see that many people believe that if we just stop “race baiting” and talking about race, it will disappear. In case you were confused, [...]
Last week, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in Falcon v. State that juveniles not convicted of murder may not be sentenced to life in prison, and that even those convicted of murder may not be sentenced to life without parole, citing a U.S. Supreme Court precedent [...]
BY NOW MANY have read and been moved by the extraordinary mea culpa published in the Shreveport Times by a man named Marty Stroud III, who more than 30 years ago sent Glenn Ford to die for a crime he did not commit. “How wrong [...]
By: Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. | March 23, 2015 | Image Credit; IBN Live. When I read an article (via Facebook) about a 23-year-old man being charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl, after being caught by the child’s mother engaging in [...]
Journalists, pundits and authors love to claim how "hard" it is for them to write certain stories. Sometimes this is just a cheap emotional trick to draw in the reader, other times it is a sincere way of acknowledging just how hard it is to [...]
