*NEW YORK – The nation’s most esteemed Black pastors, led by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III, gathered during the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave on Nov. 19. The virtual event brought together more than 100 influential Black clergy as well as public health […]
New York State Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy on Nov. 22 vacated the rape conviction that kept Anthony Broadwater behind bars for 16 years. Broadwater was convicted in 1982 of the rape of author Alice Sebold. Sebold, author of the book “The Lovely Bones,” wrote about the […]
In the latest evidence that there are “two justice systems” in America based on race, a Maryland police officer became the second white person convicted of rape in as many weeks to enjoy the privilege of not receiving any jail or prison time for their […]
The jury in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial will continue deliberations Wednesday in a case entwined with racial tensions. Three white men face nine charges for killing the 25-year-old Black man near Brunswick, Georgia. Arbery’s death led to a reform of the state’s archaic citizen’s arrest law, […]
*Remember when ex-NBAer Kwame Brown was persona non-grata and nobody really gave a crap about what he had to say? He was so far gone from the public eye that he might as well had been hiding under a rock. Viral 6-Year-Old Antwain Fowler Dies […]
In Lexington, Ky., Black men are taking the issue of gun violence into their own hands to promote and organize change in their city. Black men being gunned down is nothing new, as seen by the Kansas City verdict that came down last week and the Ahmaud […]
Recent Comments