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Two Atlanta police officers are now suing Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Police Chief Erika Shields after they were fired following a viral video showing them wrongly using stun guns on two college students whom they forced from their car as they sat in traffic during a large protest …

New Jersey’s attorney general has released shocking police dash-camera videos of last month’s fatal freeway shooting of 28-year-old Maurice S. Gordon, an unarmed black man who was shot by Sgt. Randall Wetzel, a white state trooper. The newly released audio and video footage paint a bizarre picture of Gordon’s final …

The celebrity jeweler, who provided the jewelry for the movie Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler, shot at two black men to chase them out of his neighborhood in Queens, New York. Yosef Aranbayev, 41, who also goes by the name Joe Avianne, was a “vigilante hell-bent” on chasing two black …

Jacob Daniel Bracken, 38, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon after being caught on video, pointing an assault rifle at a large crowd of protesters. The man was accused of drawing his gun on a large group of protestors, protesting at Euclid Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. In …

Actress, talk show host, and musician Keke Palmer has penned a guest column in Variety, where she speaks openly about her feelings regarding the protests, police brutality, and kneeling. Keke gained national attention just days ago when she was seen at a protest in California asking National Guard personnel to …

Director Ava Duvernay will be starting the Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP), which will fund 25 projects over the next two years through DuVernay’s Array Alliance nonprofit. The project will start off with a budget of $3 million given by contributors such as Ford Foundation and Ryan Murphey, screenwriter-producer for …

The racial tension in America is thick due to the recent string of incidents that show how prevalent racism still is in 2020. As we battle through the cases of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and now George Floyd, many have spoken out about past instances of injustice that still need …

Conservative commentator Candace Owens’ GoFundMe for an Alabama bar that was embroiled in controversy over comments made by the owner about George Floyd was suspended for violating GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Michael Dykes, co-owner of Parkside Cafe, referred to George Floyd as a “thug,” called protesters “idiots,” and suggested “implementing …

In an effort to combat COVID-19, one in three adults are using household chemicals and disinfectants unsafely at an alarming rate, a survey shows. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have seen an increase in people misusing household cleaners in an attempt to keep themselves safe, and as a …

Data shows that American police shoot, arrest, and imprison more people than other developed nations. Since 2015, police have shot and killed 5,400 people. From the beginning of 2020 through the first week of June, police shot and killed 463 people, which is 49 more than the same period last …

Despite recent tweets from Donald Trump about the economy, the National Bureau of Economic Research announced that the United States has officially been in an economic recession since February. While critics argue that a recession is based on two consecutive months of economic decline, the NBER, which serves as the …

Presumptive Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden does not support defunding the police, even as calls to do so mount by progressive Democrats. Biden told “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell on Monday flat out that he does not support defunding police, but he does support basing federal aid on “certain …

New allegations of sexual assault have surfaced against one of three white police officers accused of murdering 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a unarmed black EMT who was fatally shot on March 13th by police who were carrying out a search warrant on the wrong apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. Last week, two …

California Highway Patrol officers have shot and killed a man in his car and wounded his pregnant girlfriend in the passenger seat. According to KTVU, the family of Erik Salgado, 22, confirmed that Salgado was the man killed Saturday around 10:45 pm by officers. His girlfriend, who was injured in …

After over 70 years in the entertainment industry, Cicely Tyson, 95, has been recognized for her hard work by receiving a Peabody Career Achievement Award. Well-known for her roles in Diary Of A Mad Black Woman, The Help, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Tyson has established herself has …