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Police Pepper Spray Men, Women, and Children Marching to the Polls in North Carolina
When Trump said Make America Great Again, many of us wondered about the specifics of the great past he was seeking to bring the country back to. Was it when the law designated people with melanin as second-class citizens? Was it when the state would brutally subdue those people at will, by cracking skulls and…
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Drivers Flying Trump Flags Surround Biden-Harris Campaign Vehicles on Texas Highway, Attempt To Run Bus off the Road
After a year thatās seen white men increasingly using their vehicles to run into people whose politics they donāt agree with, I guess it shouldnāt surprise us that similar vehicular-violence is revving up in the little time left before Election Day. But the caravan of Trump supporters who surrounded Biden-Harris campaign vehicles on a highway…
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If You Still Weren't Sure That Racism Is Pervasive Among Cops: Meet The Louisiana State Police
Though this year (this horrid, horrid year) has been punctuated with ever-multiplying police killings of Black people, you may be one of the depressing faction of Americans who are steadfastly-dedicated to denying that systemic racism is a problem with law enforcement in this countryāor in this country at all. Luckily, a bunch of newly released…
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The Justice Department Has Stopped the Civil Rights Probe Into Tamir Rice's Killing, but Didn't Bother To Notify His Family
In case we needed any more evidence that the Trump administration is working overtime to protect police officers in this country from facing any repercussions for killing Black people, news has now come to light that the Justice Department has deliberately blocked a federal inquiry into the killing of Tamir Rice. Rice, as youāll remember,…
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Robocalls About Warrants, Lies About Absentee Ballots, and Other Disinformation Targeting Black Voters Ahead of Election Day
With days to go until election day, there are increasing signs of voter disinformation and suppression tactics targeting Black and Latino voters. Just this past week in Florida, numerous voters in a heavily-Democrat county received disturbing emails that threatened them if they donāt vote for President Trump. Now organizers in battleground states like Florida, Michigan,…
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Mike Pence's Closest Staffers Are Testing Positive for COVID-19, But the VP Has No Plans to Quarantine
About five members of Vice President Mike Penceās inner team now have coronavirus, a troubling outbreak that nonetheless seems not to have thwarted Penceās plans to travel across the country campaigning in the coming days. The first case reported this weekend was that of the Vice Presidentās Chief of Staff, Marc Short, who a spokesperson…
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Offset Pulled Out of His Car By Police After Trump Supporters Marching in Beverly Hills Call Cops on Him
Cardi B and her on-again-off-again boo Offset were caught in the midst of rally of Trump supporters on the streets of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles on Saturday, and the confluence of the two groups ended with cops pulling Offset out of his car and detaining him, on the complaint of someone on the street.…
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ICE Is Reportedly Torturing Detained African Immigrants To Force Deportations Ahead of Election
On the heels of the last presidential debateāin which Trump flippantly dismissed his administrationās cruel and inhumane decision to separate immigrant children from their parents for the crime of being non-white and seeking asylum in Americaāthere are now reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are torturing detained immigrants from Cameroon as part of…
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza Was Potential Target of Armed White Supremacist Nabbed by FBI
As we get closer to Election Day, more reports of planned, executed, and nearly-executed violence at the hands of white supremacists keep barrelling in. Deeply insecure white people with weapons have been targeting everyone from Black church-goers and the governor of Michigan, to even their police enablers in Minneapolis. Now news has come that these…
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Trump Delivers Campaign Speech From the White House to a Crowd of 'Blexit' Supporters Paid for by Candace Owen
The President has returned to his campaigning activities despite his coronavirus diagnosis, delivering a speech from the White House on Saturday in which he called on the surprising number of Black and Latino people in attendance to vote Democrats āinto oblivion.ā At the event, billed by the White House as a protest for law and…
