Deputy is still on the job despite recordings of him repeatedly using racial slurs to mock Martin’s death. In scenes somewhat reminiscent of a racist texting scandal that has shaken the San Francisco Police Department, public officials in Hocking County, Ohio, are reeling after audio has surfaced as part …
Read More »On George Zimmerman’s Nauseating Need For Attention And America’s Nauseating Need To Isolate: One Blogger Perfectly Walks The Line Between Over-Exposure And The Blatant Truths White People Refuse To Hear
“We have been killing, and banking on the death of Black lives for as long as we’ve been a country.” I woke this morning to familiarly disgusting news. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchmen who was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin in July of 2013, was again trending as the result of purportedly …
Read More »Sandra Bland’s Mother Makes Powerful, Heartbreaking Speech To Congressional Leaders
Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman who died under highly suspect conditions in a Texas jail, made an impassioned speech at the Library of Congress today. Reed-Veal was addressing the newly formed Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls. The Caucus was formed in March …
Read More »Defense Attorney For Officer Who Shot Unarmed Greg Gunn Says He Was Only Arrested To Silence Protesters; Second Autopsy Results Are In
Two days ago Montgomery police officer Aaron Smith was arrested for murder after state investigators determined there was enough evidence that the man he shot and killed last week was not a threat to the officer. District Attorney Daryl Bailey stated that the arrest was made because they had determined …
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