Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop who was convicted in the murder of George Floyd, was in court again on Thursday, this time to plead not guilty to violating the rights of a Black teenager during an arrest that was strikingly similar to the Floyd […]
*Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of Dimona in southern Israel have been ordered to leave the country by September 23 or face forcible deportation. As someone noted on Twitter, “Israel welcomes white American Jewish immigrants but if you’re black it’s often another story (you may as […]
*Video has surfaced showing officers in Grand Rapids, Michigan arresting a Black man outside of a McDonald’s for a robbery that he reportedly had nothing to do with. The viral video, uploaded to Facebook by “Yfn Jayy” and reposted on TikTok by @alytheeactivist, shows the […]
Police in Berkeley, California, are seeking information about a woman captured on camera trying to set a Black church on fire. “Watching the video, I feel it deeply,” Berkeley City Council member Ben Bartlett told KPIX. “It’s an attack on all of us, and going back in […]
Facebook has apologized after its artificial intelligence software appeared to label a group of Black men who appeared in a video shared on the platform as “primates.” An automated prompt asked viewers of a video titled “white man calls cops on black men at marina” […]
Seven Black men who were executed for an alleged rape have been pardoned 70 years after their death. On Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons to the “Martinsville Seven,” a group of young Black men who were executed in 1951 for the alleged rape of Ruby Stroud Floyd, […]
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