The Minneapolis City Council has decided to devote a small portion of the city’s police budget to alternative methods of policing including violence prevention specialists and mental health crisis teams, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Washington Post. In a budget that was approved on Thursday, […]
A national police training association is facing backlash after distributing a research-style paper to its members that referred to Black Lives Matter as a “terrorist group,” and depicted protesters as wanting to “overthrow the U.S. government,” according to the Associated Press. A member of the International Law Enforcement Educators and […]
A New York public school is under fire after internal emails showed administrators knew their facial recognition system could not identify Black faces and had other significant problems. Through the Freedom of Information Law, Motherboard obtained hundreds of emails from experts expressing concerns about the Lockport City […]
*Guest Lecturer and Historian Dr. Kerri Moseley-Hobbs establishes the More Than a Fraction Foundation with a mission to expand research and education on the history, life, culture, and experiences of “involuntary migrated” Africans in America and African-Americans, before the Civil War and a decade after under the mantle “from […]
The mayor of Florida’s Broward County has proposed a task force that would address issues of systemic racism. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that the proposal is the third from Broward County Mayor Dale Holness that attempts to address the issue of systemic racism. Holness previously proposed […]
Tayshia Adams broke down in tears as she discussed the death of George Floyd on ‘The Bachlorette’ Tayshia Adams is going there on The Bachelorette and we’re here for it. Even though the reality dating competition show is usually all about the romance, this week’s episode took a […]
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