Ilyasah Shabazz reflects on the late civil rights leader’s legacy on his 96th birthday, May 19, 2021. Shabazz explains her father’s famous words: “A quote that’s really great that I use often that he said is: MORE
The Dobbs case concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortion procedures after the 15th week of pregnancy. State legislators attempted to institute the ban in 2018, but U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves blocked the measure from taking effect. The MORE
Judge Peter Cahill ruled that aggravating factors existed in the death of George Floyd, which will result in a longer sentence for the murderous thug, Derek Chauvin. The judge also found that Chauvin abused his power MORE
“The Supreme Court has made clear that people have a right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sex and receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual MORE
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) on Saturday granted posthumous pardons to 34 Black lynching victims in the state between 1854 and 1933. Hogan announced the pardon of Howard Cooper,15, who was dragged from a jail MORE
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Wednesday that the Justice Department will launch a civil investigation ‘into whether Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.’ AG Garland’s announcement comes one MORE
Earlier this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis “signed a law that he called the “strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement measure in the country.” The law was written in response to protests around the country following the death of MORE
A lawyer for the Chicago police officer who shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo wrote in a statement Thursday that it was “amazing and disheartening” no one had asked how his client was doing. The MORE
DATELINE: MINDEN, La. Officers were initially called out about a man “laid out by a roadway.” Five officers can be seen in the video struggling with the man, who family member have identified as Robby MORE
Judges cite Holocaust, eugenics in divided ruling allowing Ohio to enforce Down Syndrome abortion ban COLUMBUS – Ohio’s ban on abortions after a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome doesn’t violate a woman’s ability to obtain an MORE
Handcuffed Man Says He Can’t Breathe AKRON, Ohio – Akron released body-cam footage Thursday showing a police officer, who resigned amid an internal use-of-force investigation, shove snow repeatedly into the face of a man accused of MORE
In a 5-4 ruling, SCOTUS held that California cannot enforce a rule, which ‘for now limits both religious and non-religious gatherings in homes to no more than three households, ‘ including in-person religious meetings, prayer MORE
Less than one week after perhaps the most egregiously anti-transgender bill in modern US history passed the Arkansas legislature, it was vetoed in a surprise move by Governor Asa Hutchinson, a staunch Republican with a poor record on LGBTQ MORE
Own the Libs Again! Supporters of former president Donald Trump have declared they will boycott Coca-Cola after the company said it opposed Georgia’s new voting law. Trump, who reportedly had a Diet Coke button installed MORE
In response to the recent measures undertaken by the state of Georgia to change election regulations, Major League Baseball has decided to relocate the 2021 All-Star Game and first-year player draft out of Atlanta. The MORE
By Will Bunch – The Philadelphia Inquirer Sometimes America’s legacy of white supremacy is hiding in plain sight, literally. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hastily passed voter suppression law that many are calling MORE
While the country faces so many challenges, disease, getting shots in people’s arms, climate change, high employment, etc…Red States have turned their attention to making it impossible for people to vote and denying transgender women MORE
The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that keeping criminal defendants in jail before trial simply because they lack the ability to afford bail is unconstitutional. “The common practice of conditioning freedom solely on whether MORE
Georgia State Troopers arrested Rep. Park Cannon (D) because she knocked on the door of Governor Brian Kemp’s door as he was signing into law an expansive elections bill in the state. Cannon was charged MORE
“I stand before you saying that this issue — access to voting and preempting politicians’ efforts to restrict voting — is so fundamental to our democracy that it is too important to be held hostage MORE
Stop Him from Setting Himself on Fire In 2017, Gabriel Eduardo Olivas was acting strange and threatening to kill himself. His son called 911 for help. The police in Texas arrived and rendered those threats MORE
Felons in Virginia will be eligible to vote effective immediately upon their release thanks to Gov. Ralph Northam. MORE
As civil liberties groups are pressuring corporations in Georgia to oppose Republican efforts to make it harder to vote in the Peach State, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce added a statement expressing “concern and opposition” MORE
An elementary school in Waxhaw, North Carolina, displayed pro-slavery hashtags on the classroom wall as part of a fourth-grade Civil War assignment, prompting criticism and an apology from the school system. A photo of the MORE
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The boy’s mother, Ashley Murry, said on Tuesday that her 5-year-old told her about the incident over the weekend. His teacher at Crystal Hill Elementary School reportedly told him to clean out MORE