Race Matters

Black candidates running in either party don't automatically translate to improvement or advancement for Black people as a whole.

Paulk's offer of a reward comes after Johnson's parents recently expressed their displeasure with his findings in the case.

"If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly," Donald Trump said during a rally in Texas. "And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly."

The students stress that their issue is not with Shapiro expressing a preference for a particular candidate but his assertion that no Black woman nominated would be qualified. 

Beyond being a Black woman, civil rights groups say, Biden's nominee needs to value racial equity and not be influenced by politics in order to help bring balance to the Supreme Court.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams' solution to a rise in gun violence in NYC is to unleash a previously-dismantled special plainclothes police unit that has been accused of racial profiling to target guns and street gangs.

The resolution is an example of the right's attack on facts and accurate reporting while feeding into conspiracy theories and disinformation.

Police in Luray, Virginia quickly forgave and didn't arrest Amelia King, an anti-mask parent shown on video at a Page County School Board meeting threatening to bring "loaded" guns to her kids' school in protest of the mask mandate she opposes.

A mostly white jury was selected in the case for Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao, the three ex-Minneapolis cops who, along with Derek Chauvin, were involved in George Floyd's death. Judge Paul Magnuson said, “There is absolutely nothing about the subject of religion, race or ethnicity that’s involved in this case.”

The panel will focus on the history and progress of movements for racial justice, with particular attention to the topic of reparations.  

University of Pennsylvania graduate student Mackenzie Fierceton won the Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. But she lost the scholarship after it came out that she lied on her application about being poor, abused and growing up in foster care.

While some things have improved markedly for Black Americans in the past 50-odd years, today we are still fighting many of the same battles as Dr. King did in his day.