Black History Month is meant to educate, right? Well not in the case of this public elementary school in Indiana which is receiving some backlash after one of its counselors sent a memo that says parents can opt their children out of Black History Month lessons, […]
Two New Jersey police officers are under investigation after a video shows them seemingly showing preference to a white teen while pinning a Black teen down after breaking up their fight at a shopping mall last weekend. The viral clip has many, including the white […]
In Duluth, Minnesota, a Black 12-year-old swimmer Leidy Lyons was disqualified from a meet on Feb. 6 for wearing a Black Lives Matter swimsuit. However, the ruling was eventually overturned by the local YMCA that organized the meet. Members of the local NAACP also arrived and showed […]
by Yolanda Baruch Today A Florida judge tossed out a lawsuit filed by George Zimmerman against Trayvon Martin’s parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. Trayvon was in Sanford, Florida, when Zimmerman fatally shot the teen in 2012, AP News reports. In 2019, Zimmerman sued Trayvon’s parents, citing alleged […]
Amir Locke’s mother Karen Wells and father, Andre Locke Sr. (2nd L) talk about their son, accompanied by Rev. Al Sharpton (R) and Attorney Ben Crump, during Amir Locke’s funeral at Shiloh Temple International Ministries on February 17, 2022, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Source: Brooklynn […]
Last-minute Christmas shoppers take a break from shopping at Bridgewater Commons Mall on December 24, 2010, in Bridgewater TWP, New Jersey. | Source: Matt Rainey / Getty Civil rights leaders were reacting with disgust and anger to what they described as a racist police response to a […]