After making an offensive video that makes fun of the police killing of Breonna Taylor, a corrections officer in Louisville, Kentucky, was terminated by the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections last week. According to The Washington Post, Turhan Knight, a corrections officer for the LMDC since 2018, was fired from […]
Source: Lawrence Manning / Getty People are demanding that officials at Brigham Young University (BYU) take further action after Black volleyball players from Duke University were taunted with racial slurs during a game on Friday. But in a statement on Twitter Sunday afternoon, Duke Volleyball starter Rachael […]
Credit: Instagram *An art teacher from a small New Jersey town has allegedly upset many parents of her young students because of her voluptuous body. As reported by The Buzz, Roxsana Diaz goes by The Art Teacher on Instagram, where she has more than 750,000 followers. According to American Chronicles and The Recent […]
A former correctional officer faces life in prison after he was found guilty in his second trial for the death of a 65-year-old man who was handcuffed and pummeled in a notorious blind spot in the Western Illinois Correctional Center. A federal jury returned a […]
The Root has written extensively about the new wave of voter suppression laws that have become more prevalent ever since Black people exercised their right to vote in record numbers during the 2020 Presidential election. Republican-led states such as Texas, Florida, and Georgia are just reimagining voting suppression tactics from an […]
A Florida police officer handed in his resignation after a video of him pulling a gun on a pregnant Black woman while her three children watched from the vehicle was released. According to NBC News, Bradford County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Desue stopped Ebony Washington because she was allegedly going 72 miles per hour in a 55-mph […]
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