Activists are calling for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Superintendent David Brown to resign following the police shooting of a 13-year-old boy, according to CBS2 Chicago. The demands arose following the fatal police shooting of Adam Toledo which took place on March 29. However, body camera footage of the incident was […]
During this year’s Kentucky Derby, fans will be allowed to attend and partake in the festivities for the first time since the pandemic began. That won’t be the only first; Kendrick Carmouche will become the first Black jockey to compete in the derby since 2013, per the Louisville […]
A Black family based in Louisville, Kentucky, recently launched a GoFundMe in an effort to escape their collective trauma as the result of a violent no-knock raid. On GoFundMe Ashlea Burr, the family matriarch asked for community care as she and her loved ones attempt leave […]
A Tennessee mother says she wishes she had never called the police on her daughter’s Black boyfriend after the conflict ended with an officer fatally shooting him inside a Knoxville high school bathroom. Anthony J. Thompson Jr., a 17-year-old student at Austin-East Magnet High School, […]
Colorado District Court Judge Natalie Chase resigned last week after the Colorado Supreme Court censured her for using racial slurs, making racially insensitive comments and performing a range of other inappropriate behavior at work. Chase agreed to step down Friday following the public censure. She […]
Unglamorous tenement storefronts jockey for space, merchandise spills onto the sidewalk, and sign after colorful sign advertised such utilitarian items like coats, linens, eyeglasses, and hosiery. Orchard in the 1950s seems emptier than it had been in the early decades of the 20th century, when […]
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