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Tamika Mallory delivered a veritable sermon live on her Instagram responding to the devastating images of Border Patrol agents appearing to use whips from horseback in order to corral Haitian migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said they would investigate the Rexas border patrol agents on horseback, but they both said they saw nothing wrong when viewing the same photos and videos decent people were horrified by. 

Sept. 21 marks the 10-year point since the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis despite increasing suspicions of his innocence following his conviction for killing an off-duty police officer. Take a look back at everything that led to that fateful, controversial moment.

George Holliday, the man who filmed the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles on March 3, 1991, has died from COVID-19.

According to a report published by the state, 710 indigenous people, mostly young girls, went missing in Wyoming from 2011 to 2020. They also found 85% of the miss were kids and 57% were females

Ancestry.com recently updated 3.5 million records of previously enslaved Black people, which is currently available for free.

Getting the vaccine approved and available for children under 12 is only half the battle. Vaccine equity concerns continue despite the availability of the vaccine for children.

Teachers and other school staff in Oregon must be vaccinated by Oct. 18. But a special education staffer at an elementary school decided protesting in blackface was the way to protest the change.

Coel’s work in I May Destroy You is impeccable, as it follows a young writer (played by Coel) struggling with the aftermath of surviving sexual assault

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Jessica Zyrie is an MMG Models model from Texas, who has appeared in fashion campaigns for Absolut and walked the runway for Joy Kimono.

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Chris Rock's tweet that he tested positive for COVID-19 prompted some anti-vaxxers who clearly don't understand how vaccines work or follow what medical experts have been saying to ask him why he's still recommending the vaccine even he got infected.

Mainstream media has saturated photos of thousands of Haitian migrants seeking asylum gathered in Del Rio, Texas, but few outlets have shown Border Patrol on horseback hunting down the migrants to deport them in pictures that evoke images of slavery.