Source: Vesnaandjic / Getty Over the last two years, gun ownership has soared in the Black community, according to a new study published by The National Firearm Industry Trade Association. Between 2019 and 2020, gun purchases among African American men and women spiked by more than […]
With so much legal news coming out of the world of entertainment, people may have forgotten that the man convicted of fatally shooting Nipsey Hussle has still not been sentenced. On Monday, Eric Holder Jr. attempted to have his first-degree murder conviction reduced to second-degree murder or voluntary […]
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 2,414 death row inmates awaited death in 2022. Eighteen of them were executed. Looking at the statistics makes it easier to overlook these individuals as just numbers. But Kevin Johnson left a journal behind, humanizing the heart-wrenching experience awaiting an inescapable death, per the Kansas City […]
Atchison, 21, was killed on Jan. 22, 2019, after an FBI task force that included Kim tried to arrest him for an armed robbery warrant. ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia grand jury has indicted a now-retired Atlanta police officer on murder charges after the officer […]
Claudine Gay, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1. Since 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), […]
On Thursday, the five police officers who were involved in the May 2019 death Ronald Greene—a Black motorist— during a violent arrest were indicted on state charges by a grand jury in Union Parish, Louisiana. Greene, 49, died after officers claimed he resisted arrest. However, Greene’s family said that […]
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