Black Man Injustice
Kevin Hart is this year’s winner of the Mark Twain Prize
Funny man Kevin Hart is the winner of the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Considered the highest honor in the funny business, previous recipients have included Tina Fey, Bob Newhart, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart. Hart started telling jokes during amateur night at a local comedy club in his native Philadelphia. Today, his…
Read MoreAkron cops shot an unarmed Black man 43 times…. So what?
Cops who killed an unarmed 25-year-old Black man by shooting him 43 times last June in Akron, Ohio, did not violate the law, even after the medical examiner’s office ruled the murder was a homicide. Steve Mylett, the Akron chief of police, found that the officer’s actions during the fatal encounter were “objectively reasonable.†His…
Read MoreConvict dies after 50 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit
Ed Poindexter, who spent 50 years in prison for a crime he said he did commit, died in prison Thursday. Poindexter, who was 79, died following a lengthy battle with diabetes. He and his friend David Rice were convicted in the 1970 booby-trap bombing of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard by a mostly all-white jury…
Read MoreA man released from prison for a crime he did not commit was shot to death by a cop
Buck Aldridge, a Georgia deputy who fatally shot Leonard Cure, who spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, was killed during a traffic stop by Aldridge. Aldridge has had a terrible history with motorists. He was fired by the Kingsland Police Department in August 2017 for violating its use-of-force policy during…
Read MoreWalking while Black can be deadly for Black men
After leaving a convenience store, Elijah McClain was described by one male caller to police as ‘sketchy.” Police jumped on McClain, who was 5 foot 7 inches and weighed 145 pounds, and beat him. The paramedic injected McClain with ketamine. He died three days later in a local hospital. Jurors convicted a Colorado police officer…
Read MoreAt Tesla, Blacks are less than human
Black employees who work for Tesla, an electric car manufacturer, are called “nigger,†“monkey,†“boy,†and “black b*tch to their faces in assaults on their dignity and their ability to work to feed their families. At the Fremont, California plant, black employees regularly encountered graffiti, including variations of the nigger, swastikas, threats, and nooses, on…
Read MoreBlack men comprised 32 percent of the nation’s federal prison population
The U.S. prison population was 1,230,100 on December 31, 2022, a 2% increase from 2021, 1,205,100 led by Black men, according to preliminary U.S. Department of Justice statistics. Black men accounted for 32 percent of the federal prison population, followed by Whites at 31 percent, Hispanics at 23 percent, and multiracial persons at 10 percent;…
Read MoreBlack women write about justice for Black men
Black women are angry about the police murders of Black men and have organized to fight the depiction of Black men by the media and police, which was announced in relation to an upcoming book that will be published on September 15 by Broadleafbooks.com (https://www.broadleafbooks.com) The organization called “We Refused to be Silent: Women’s Voices…
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