If the United States’ failure to anticipate the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was one of imagination, missing the terrorist attack of Jan. 6, 2021, was a failure of perception — a persistent refusal at the highest levels of our government to acknowledge the empirical […]
The group chock full of his followers have come to learn one lesson the hard way: ‘Trump was just a man.’ Far-right extremists are seething now that President Joe Biden has been successfully inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. The Proud Boys, a violent […]
Jacob Blake, the Black man shot by the police in front of his children in Kenosha, Wis., said he should not have grabbed his pocketknife during the August incident, but that he was ready to surrender. Blake, who was shot seven times in the back, […]
Just months after the investigation into the Oscar Grant’s shooting was reopened, the Alameda County district attorney announced charges will not be filed against the second officer involved in the incident. According to the New York Times, Nancy O’Malley, the Alameda County district attorney, released […]
The giant snow sculpture took 60 hours to complete. A Canadian visual artist paid tribute to George Floyd by building a massive snow sculpture in his image. According to CTV News, Quebec City, artist Timothee de Sandro spent an estimated 60 hours to complete the sculpture. He also joked he had borrowed […]
A ceramic bust of Breonna Taylor, which was installed near Oakland’s City Hall two weeks ago by a sculptor named Leo Carson, has been destroyed, CBS News reported. Its artist, who was working as a food server before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the industry, said the apparent act of vandalism is […]
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