June represents Gun Violence Awareness Month in the United States. With the recent increase in mass shootings, this month is more important than ever. In the past few years, we’ve experienced mass shootings in night clubs, concert venues, schools, and churches. We’ve experienced shootings in […]
Civil rights groups announced this week that they are taking the next steps in a lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development that claims it unlawfully suspended an Obama-era rule intended to promote racial integration and combat discriminatory housing practices. Source: Trump Administration […]
An Athens-Clark County police officer is out of a job after an investigation determined that he purposely rammed his police cruiser into a fleeing suspect. According to ABC News , Officer Taylor Saulters was at first suspended following the incident but was ultimately fired on […]
A new report from Missouri’s attorney general shows black motorists are 85 percent more likely to get pulled over than white drivers. According to The Associated Press , Attorney General Josh Hawley’s office released the annual Vehicle Stops Report came on Friday, June 1. The […]
(Photo: Reginald Duncan / The Atlanta Voice) by Marshall A. Latimore via theatlantavoice.com As America waits to see if Georgia will make history by electing Stacey Abrams the first African American woman governor in the country this November, African American women in one of Georgia’s […]
Ohio Rep. Emilia Sykes was stopped and harassed by Statehouse security not once but twice in the last year because she doesn’t look like a lawmaker. The Democrat has been a lawmaker for three years serving Akron, Ohio. In that time, it has apparently still […]