Racial harassment in the Davis School District in Utah is so severe that the U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene, but that has not stopped the blatant racism Black students deal with daily, according to a new lawsuit obtained by Atlanta Black Star. High […]
Deondra Hawkins, a metro Atlanta mother of two, is accusing the police of wrongfully detaining her and her two children for alleged involvement in an armed robbery. Hawkins, her 14-year-old daughter, and her 18-year-old autistic son were misidentified, cornered, and placed in handcuffs by Cobbs County Police during an […]
A woman and her daughter from Hemet in Southern California were violently arrested in front of their home in March 2021. Mariah Hereford and her mother Monet Hereford have video footage of the encounter of Hemet Gang Enforcement officers’ brutal handling and arrest of the women, as well as Mariah’s […]
Source: DenisTangneyJr / Getty In today’s episode of Are…Are The whites OK? a rural and overwhelmingly white New York town has reminded us how commonplace blatant racism is in predominately white spaces where the inhabitants of those spaces are left to their own devices. It’s the kind […]
As Blavity previously reported, the weeks-long Russian invasion of Ukraine has had the unintended consequence of highlighting biases that exist. Not only in Ukraine and Russia, but in a variety of so-called Western nations. As conflict grips the international community, an interesting international dynamic has taken […]
An unarmed Black man sitting in his car outside of his home was shot by a police officer, leaving the majority of his body paralyzed. Jajuan Henderson, 29, is now suing the city and members of the police force for damages incurred by the incident. […]
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