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Minneapolis Residents Vote Against Proposal to Replace Police Department
A movement to abolish the police was spurred by George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last year.
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Vice President Kamala Harris Calls on Congress to Protect Voting Rights at National Action Network Celebration
The NAN’s 30th anniversary and 67th birthday celebration for its founder, Rev. Al Sharpton, was a platform for change and calls to action.
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FBI Investigating Fire and Spray Painted Slur at Black Indiana City Councilman’s Home
City Councilman Tommy Williams says that his clothes were taken out of the closet, put on a bed and set on fire in his family’s home.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson Hospitalized After Fall at Howard University
The civil rights leader was visiting the students protesting their living conditions at Howard when he fell and hit his head.
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Alabama May Consider Wiping the Arrest Records Clean for Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks
Alabama officials are considering a bid to clear arrest records of civil rights icons Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, both convicted in the 1950s.
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Ain’t Nothing Funny: Nassau County School District Says Video of White Students Using the N-Word, Wearing White Hood Was Meant to Be a ‘Joke’
The school district says they did not discipline the students because the video was taken during the summer, before the school year began.
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Head of Prep School Who Uninvited Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Taking a Leave of Absence
David Beare and the board of trustees say disinviting Hannah-Jones from the Massachusetts prep school was a “shameful mistake.”
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Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Donates $1.34 Million to Cancel Medical Debt
The donation will help eliminate the medical debt of 108,000 people across the South who owe more than $210 million combined.
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U.S. Marshal and Georgia Officer Indicted in Shooting Death of Jamarion Robinson
In 2016, Robinson died with 76 bullet wounds. Now five years later, U.S. Marshal Eric Heinze and Officer Kristopher Hutchens are indicted for felony murder.
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Civil War Era Law Used by Slave Catchers and Lynch Mobs to Be Used by the Three Men in Ahmaud Arbery Trial
The 1863 citizen’s arrest law was repealed in May of this year, but the defense plans to use it anyway.
