Police Brutality
1919 Chicago race riot claimed 23 Black lives
Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project in partnership with Organic Oneness, a grassroots social justice organization in Chicago dedicated to eliminating racism and fostering community healing, will hold their eighth annual bike ride in commemoration of the1919 race riot in which 38 Chicago residents were killed between July 27 and August 13. To register for our free historic…
Read MoreTerence Crutcher’s estate gets a new hearing following deadly police shooting
Terence Crutcher’s car broke down on the highway. He called the police for help. Instead, he was shot to death by Betty Shelby, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, cop, on September 16. 2016. Nearly 10 years after Crutcher, then 40, was killed by Shelby, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Shelby may face trial…
Read More70 years after his execution, he was found not guilty
Tommy Lee Walker was only 19 when he was executed in the electric chair for a murder and rape he didn’t commit. He was posthumously exonerated 70 years later by the Dallas County Commissioners Court on Wednesday. Exoneration refers to the reversal of a wrongful conviction, often due to new evidence or the discovery of flaws in the original conviction process. Walker died when he was strapped to the electric chair after police charged him with murdering and raping.…
Read MoreSonya Massay sought help, but instead police killed her
Sonya Massay sought help, but instead police killed her Sonya Massay lived with her three children in Woodside Township, near Springfield, Ill. She thought she heard someone attempting to break into her home. She called the police. As it turned out the cops were there not to serve and protect. They ended up killing her.…
Read MoreDr. Nathan Hare, the father of Black Studies, has died
Dr. Nathan Hare, the founder of “Father of Black Studies,” died Monday, June 10. He was 91. Dr. Hare was hired by San Francisco State College, now San Francisco State University, as the first program coordinator for the institution’s Black Studies program in 1968. The program was the first of its kind in the United…
Read MoreAmanda Knox is again convicted of slander of her former boss
American Amanda Knox has again been found guilty if slandering her former boss.
Read MoreChicago police shot a driver 96 times for not wearing a seat belt
Chicago police shot at Dexter Reed 96 times
Read MoreAmerica’s top Black think tank has a new leader
America’s top Black think tank has selected Dedrick Asante-Muhammad as president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, succeeding Spencer Overton, who served as president for 10 years before stepping down on June 14, 2023. Jessica Fulton, vice president of policy, was named interim president on June 14. She will remain in this…
Read MoreNazis march in Nashville, where the KKK was founded
Nazis marched down the sidewalks in Nashville, Tennessee, in the same state where the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 by Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general. In the popular film, “Forrest Gump,†actor Tom Hanks played Forrest Gump, a distant relative of Nathan Bedford Forrest. His mother, played by actress Sally Field, gave…
Read MoreCops who murdered unarmed Black man will each receive $500,000
Three officers who were acquitted by a jury for the murder of Manuel Ellis will each receive a big payout after agreeing not to return to the Tacoma Police Department. Each officer, Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins, and Timothy Rankine, will receive $500,000 if they say bye to the police department. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department…
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