By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Legal weed went on sale Wednesday in Illinois, but blacks were buyers not sellers in a market controlled by white men. All of the state’s cannabis dispensaries were licensed to white-owned companies to sell recreational marijuana, a product whose sales’ upside is high and lucrative at this time. Pot heads stood in long lines[Read More…]
Day: January 3, 2020
Dallas is let off the hook in Botham Jean murder
Federal Judge Barbara M. Lynn dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Dallas filed by the family of Botham Jean who was shot to death in his home by Amber Guyger, an off-duty Dallas police officer. Lynn, chief judge for U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, dismissed the lawsuit on December 23rd with prejudice,[Read More…]