Civil Rights & Social Justice

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Opinion

Major League Baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s historic career on April 15, but those celebrations fall short if they don’t address how he confronted white supremacy with class and dignity.

Race Matters

Patrick Howley is racist as hell, and he demonstrated that racism when he complained about all the Black people who attended this year's CMT Music Awards.

#BlackLivesMatter

“Where are all those who stated ‘Black lives matter?'”NYC Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday after multiple shootings were reported out of Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

Memes mocking the NYPD patrolling subways have been filling social media timelines after New York City cops proved to be ineffective, at best, in finding Brooklyn train shooting suspect Frank James on their own.

Race Matters

“We do know he was not a white supremacist, so we’re betting the media are not going to dwell on this,” Carlson said on Tucker Carlson Tonight Tuesday. “There’s nothing to gain from covering this particular atrocity. Just another mass shooting in the big city. It’s all so sad.”

Race Matters

A firearm instructor, Nephi Khaliki, in Nevada got on stage during a recent conceal carry weapon (CCW) event and made racist jokes about firearm safety rules for Black people.

Prosecutors revealed that they offered plea deals to former officers Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, according to NBC News. The specifics of the deals were not revealed by lead prosecutor Matthew Frank, but it was revealed that the defendants rejected their deals.

The GoFundMe accounts for Christian Obumseli - who was stabbed to death by his white IG model girlfriend Courtney Clenney - and Patrick Lyoya - who was unarmed when he was shot in the head by a Grand Rapids cop - are receiving uneven monetary responses to the killings.

Led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Black Maternal Health Week is celebrated April 11-17. It falls within April, which is also National Minority Health Month.  

Race Matters

Christian "Toby" Obumseli was stabbed to death by his white girlfriend, Courtney Clenney, years after he posted on social media how much he believed that white women were superior to Black women. Clenney, in turn, fetishized Black men before she killed him.

It has been ruled that Buffalo, New York, Officers Robert McCabe, and Aaron Torgalski were justified in pushing 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground because he refused to comply and acted erratically.

Policies should center health and well-being not exacerbate harm.