In mid-November, Keysha Preston (pictured right) made a serious accusation to Houston police: a minor member of her family had confessed in her about being sexually assaulted by Keysha’s estranged husband. Keysha herself had seen some inappropriate touching. Nine days later, the 41-year-old mother was discovered […]
Calls for the resignation of Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet have mounted after a recently released video shows the judge’s family tossing the n-word around inside her home. A video that surfaced on Monday shows Odinet and her family gathered together while watching home security footage of an […]
On April 11, former Minnesota Officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright. Since then, it’s been a mystery how a 26-year police veteran could mistake her gun for a taser. On Monday, the jury finally had to grapple with that. While the first few days focused […]
By Victor Omondi It’s been a week since Barbados Island was declared a republic, free from its decades-long ties to the British monarchy. The long-awaited split from the monarchy seems to have come with major plans. The young republic is planning to build a trans-Atlantic slave […]
This week the United States Justice Department closed its investigation into the death of Emmett Till. Despite finding no new evidence to bring new charges in the 14-year-old’s 1955 lynching, the FBI’s Cold Case Initiative continues to investigate other cold-case crimes with racial bias implications from the […]
Source: halbergman / Getty While the economy is gradually rebounding, a new poll found that some Black people are still struggling. According to the November Temperature Check Poll from Black to the Future Action Fund, 42 percent of Black adults described their financial situation as “bad.” And one-third of […]
