Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush called out the US Senate this week for holding the confirmation hearing for Rahm Emanuel on the anniversary of Laquan McDonald’s death. McDonald, a 17-year-old Black teen was shot 16 times by Chicago police in October 2014. The officer who shot McDonald was eventually convicted, found guilty […]
“Why does Thomas Markle just not shut up?” It’s a question we and countless other have asked countless times since Meghan Markle became Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. It’s also the question that opened her estranged father’s latest interview with the British media, as he appeared […]
The American Black Film Festival has announced that the 2021 event will open its milestone 25th year with Warner Bros. Pictures’ eagerly anticipated film “King Richard” starring Will Smith. The biopic finds Smith portraying Richard Williams, father of legendary athletes Venus and Serena Williams. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Making Progress Finding Justice In […]
Source: Bettmann / Getty Between 1979 and 1981 at least 29 Black children were killed in the city of Atlanta. The horrific string of killings was dubbed the “Atlanta Child Murders.” Police arrested Wayne Williams, a suspect in the child murders, on June 21, 1981. He […]
