Disclaimer: This post contains graphic details of child abuse and death. Eight-year-old Amaria Osby was found dead in an Uptown Chicago apartment around 11 a.m. May 25, police say. Prosecutors confirm her mother, Andreal Hagler, 38, suffocated the child with a plastic bag on […]
A Virginia woman missing for eight days was found alive in a heavily forested area on May 23, less than a mile from where she lived, confirmed the local sheriff. Sixty-nine-year-old Aletha Gee Walton of Prince Edward County, Virginia, was reported missing May 17 by […]
Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty Chicago police are back in hot water after a lawsuit claims an officer shot an unarmed 13-year-old Black boy in the back while he was trying to comply. According to an excessive force lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, the seventh-grader had raised his hands in […]
*Prominent Black activist Francia Márquez could become Columbia’s next vice president. Márquez has “faced death threats, racist tweets — even an assassination attempt,” per The Washington Post, also noting that “the president of Colombia’s senate accused her of links to one of the country’s most violent guerrilla […]
Source: KEREM YUCEL / Getty President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order in an effort to bring some semblance of meaningful reform to policing in America. The signing at the White House coincided with the two-year anniversary of the horrific police murder of George Floyd. The […]
An officer walks outside of Robb Elementary School, after a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. Source: ALLISON DINNER / Getty In the hours immediately after a horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Texas Republicans opted to deflect from the clear need for gun […]