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To combat the problem of gang violence in Chicago directly, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is looking to hit gang members where it hurts by not only taking them to court but also coming for their assets. 

In a clear and pattern, Bob Enyart became the fifth anti-vax right-wing radio host to die of COVID-19 in the past six weeks, each linked by the fateful common truth that they all refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

A banana was found taped to the dorm room door of two Black students at Rhodes College in Memphis. Now, Black students and alumni are calling on school officials to do more than release some bare-minimum obligatory statement of condemnation.

A Georgia family wants answers after their 12-year-old son was killed by police on September 10, after a high-speed chase turned deadly on Highway 92 in Paulding County.

On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a white woman passenger on Spirit Airlines allegedly commemorated the occasion the way white Americans of the MAGA persuasion often do—by being a racist, Islamaphobic bigot.

It looks like Jay-Z may be close to making the dream of Black ownership in the NFL a reality after new reports put him on a very small list of top contenders to purchase the Denver Broncos franchise.

Rapper Nicki Minaj said she tested positive for COVID-19, advised her millions of Twitter followers to not be "bullied" into getting vaccinated and shared a horrific story/conspiracy theory about a family friend becoming "impotent" with "swollen testicles" as a result.

C Cedric Ceballos is COVID-19 free but continues to have issues breathing and functioning on his own. The former NBA player reported continued symptoms despite his negative status in a Twitter post-Monday.  

After realizing there is likely no realistic path to victory in the California gubernatorial recall election, conservative and right-wing political operatives have appeared to embrace a familiar tactic of pushing the unproven allegations of voter fraud.

Maia Chaka, 38, officiated her first NFL game over the weekend, becoming the first black woman to ref an NFL game. She was the line judge during the game between the Carolina Panthers and New York Jets, which aired on CBS Sunday afternoon.

Dusty Leo, a suspected white supremacist convicted of a hate crime in Maine for attacking an unsuspecting Black man and breaking his jaw because of the color of his skin, was given a light prison sentence because the judge said he was "intoxicated" and must have been "brainwashed."

Conservative supporters of Larry Elder, a Black Republican running in California's gubernatorial recall election, want "hate crime" charges for a white woman who threw eggs at him while wearing a gorilla mask. They claim it's racist.