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A large group of residents from a New Jersey neighborhood of Mount Laurel banded together to bring attention to a man named Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, who has terrorized Black neighbors. They protested in front of Mathews’ home after an inhumane confrontation between Mathews, and the victims was recorded on …

John Root, a Laurel County Sheriff, lit shirts on fire while demanding that the Wildcats’ head basketball coach be fired after allowing players to kneel during Saturday’s win over Florida. “I honestly can’t believe a team from Kentucky (the Hillbilly State) took a knee to our National Anthem with the …

Former first lady Michelle Obama addressed the attempted coup that took place on Capitol Hill, calling Donald Trump “infantile and unpatriotic.” “The day was a fulfillment of the wishes of an infantile and unpatriotic president who can’t handle the truth of his own failures. And the wreckage lays at the …

Virginia removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the U.S. Capitol. The statue will be replaced with a sculpture of civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns. “We should all be proud of this important step forward for our Commonwealth and our country,” Ralph Northam, the Governor of …

A 52-year-old Queens woman has been charged with reckless endangerment after she drove her car into a crowd of protesters on an NYC street over the weekend. Her exact motives were unknown. According to Buzzfeed, Kathleen Casillo injured six people when she drove her 2019 BMW through a crowd of …

A new lawsuit filed by Oakland, Calfornia, and Portland, Oregon, questioning the legal justification for federal agents’ deployment, alleging that it is a violation of federal law and unconstitutional. “The administration needs to be held accountable for trying to expand its authority beyond what’s a reasonable scope,” said Jonathan Miller, …

While police have utilized what they deem to be less-lethal ammunition, such as rubber bullets, a report published by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has revealed that more than 100 people have sustained serious injuries from these measures just this summer alone. “Protests calling for justice and accountability for police …

A reporter that was banned from covering Pittsburgh’s Black Lives Matter protests for a tweet she posted has now sued the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper she works for. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Alexis Johnson, who is a Black female reporter, filed the suit in a Pennsylvania federal court claiming that …

Just days after Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, announced that the team would not support players who exercise their right to protest, quarterback Dak Prescott has also shared his thoughts about the ongoing controversy.  “I never protest during the anthem and I don’t think that’s the time or venue to …

Amid the controversy over H&M’s “Coolest Monkey” fiasco, South African protesters have taken matters into their own hands.   After the Swedish fashion group displayed a new ad that featured a young black boy posing in a sweatshirt that read, “Coolest Monkey In The Jungle,” the company issued an apology …

Friday night, thousands of white nationalists gathered, ahead of the “Unite the Right” rally, to march in protest of the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue. As the group marched across the University of Virginia campus, they chanted “all white lives matter,” “no more brother wars,” “you will not …