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Victims sue websites used by gunmen who murdered 10 people in a Buffalo
Victims were horrified. They hid in the store’s freezers out of fear. Some were stunned to watch a White gunman shoot and kill ten mostly Black people during a massacre in a Buffalo, N.Y., shopping center. Now the survivors have sued gun manufacturers, the retailer where the gunman bought the weapons, the killer’s parents, and…
Read MoreRepublican senator alleges the Fulton County District Attorney is persecuting Donald Trump
A Republican state senator has called for a special session of the Georgia Legislature to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who charged former President Trump and 18 others this week with attempting to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results. State Sen. Colton Moore, who represents the northwest corner of Georgia, said Willis’s’ political persecution of…
Read MoreDeSantis suspends Florida’s only Black Woman State’s Attorney
On Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended State’s Attorney Monique Worrell. Worrell was based in the 9th judicial district, which is located in Central Florida and covers Orange and Osceola Counties. Worrell is the only Black woman state’s attorney and she is being replaced with Orlando judge Andrew Bain, a conservative Black judge. “I guess…
Read MoreSix cops have been fired for sexually assaulting and beating two Black men
Six White Mississippi police officers have been fired after they admitted to assaulting two Black men, including shooting one of the men in the mouth, causing serious injury. The cops were guilty of serious civil rights crimes for their torture of the men, Michael Jenkins, 32, and Eddie Parker, 35, said Kirsten Clarke, the Assistant…
Read MoreA black truck driver who was surrendering was then attacked by a commanded police dog
A Black truck driver, who raised his hands to surrender following a police chase, was charged and bitten by a commanded police dog. The surrendering man has hired Ben Crump to act as his attorney. Crump said: “This traumatic experience will stay with Jadarrius Rose, 23, the driver, for the rest of his life.” Rose…
Read MoreBlacks continue to push for nuclear disarmament
 The film “Oppenheimer†which opened in theaters Friday, shows J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bomb, struggling with his creation and later proclaiming that he had “blood on his hands.†This follows President Harry Truman ordering atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing more than 240,000 people.…
Read MoreGovernor Ron DeSantis wants to whitewash Black History as though it never existed
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, but the head of the NAACP denounced the move, saying that it should not eliminate slavery, Jim Crow laws, police brutality, and the problems many Blacks face every day, including, for example,…
Read MoreCook County State’s Attorney put 275 police officers on a do not call for court list
The Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said she has released the names of 275 Chicago, suburban, and state police officers that were placed on the “Do Not Call List†which means they should not be allowed to testify in court because of their past misconduct, including unjustly framing people who went to prison. The list…
Read MoreA financial backer of the Tutsis genocide was arrested but he won’t be tried because he is suffering from dementia
Félicien Kabuga, once the wealthiest man in Rwanda who has been accused of financing the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus was recently arrested in Paris for the crimes but he won’t stand trial because he is suffering from “severe dementia,†United Nations war crimes court has ruled. Kabuga was arrested in Paris in 2020 and…
Read MoreCuban woman is behind book bans in Florida schools
A Black Cuban woman who complained about Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem for President Joseph Biden, causing it to be banned by the Bob Graham education center in Miami Lakes, Florida, was reported to have ties to the Proud Boys. The woman was identified as Daily Salinas. She was born in Cuba and her first language…
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