Funnyman Dave Chappelle is speaking out about his encounter with the police. During his stand-up routine on Dec. 12 in New Orleans, Chappelle revealed to the audience he was choked by the police when he was filming a movie in the city years ago. While Chappelle’s act was not recorded, Jarvis DeBerry from The Times-Picayune, was in […]
Eric Garner’s daughter Erica Garner returned to the location in Staten Island where her father was choked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo and staged and led a protest in memory of her father. The 24-year-old was joined by a group of protestors on Bay Street in St. George for a vigil and then protesters […]
Rapper Jay-Z is urging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reshape New York state’s current justice system in the wake of nationwide protests of unarmed blacks being killed by white police officers who aren’t held criminally responsible. Jay-Z along with hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons spoke with Cuomo about reforms, while rapper Common joined Simmons at a […]
Do you have goosebumps yet? Black Congressional staffers staged a walkout on Thursday afternoon and gathered on the steps of the Capitol Building to show unity with the protests that are going on around the world in support of Eric Garner and Michael Brown’s devastating grand jury decisions. The above photo shoes more than 150 […]
Marist College and NBC News have released a poll that reveals a majority of White people (52 percent) believe that local police forces treat White and Black people “equally.” Pause–records screeching and all of that! According to the same researchers of this study, the percentage is the highest it’s been since conducting such studies of […]
A week after the demands of activists, the name of the officer who killed unarmed Black man, Rumain Brisbon has been released: Officer Mark Rine. This man has been on the force for seven years and since killing Brisbon, has been reassigned to nonenforcement duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Prosecutors will determine […]
Students at over 70 medical schools across the country are coming together to hold nationwide “die-ins” on Wednesday to protest grand jury decisions not indict the police officers involved in the deaths of Staten Island resident Eric Garner and Ferguson, Mo’s Michael Brown. According to reports, the “white coat die-ins” at med schools in, Boston, […]
President Obama is on some type of media tour where he’s addressing the killing for Michael Brown and Eric Garner and what they mean for our country. We guess that just as good as going to Ferguson or New York City and addressing the people who are angry and demanding justice? Previously, we’ve shared some […]
While 2014 has been a particularly explosive year for the Black community and judicial system, the reality is, cops have been getting away with murder for far too long. Earlier this month, the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund Twitter page posted a series of tweets that contained only a date, name, and location of every unarmed Black […]
Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of Amadou Diallo remains frustrated that police brutality is still taking innocent, unarmed Black lives. In an interview with CNN on Monday, Diallo shared her honest revelations on the lack of progress: “I have met all these victims, comforted those mothers, but however, what is going on here is like many years ago. […]
20-year-old Ferguson activist Rasheen Aldridge Jr. was invited to the White House by President Obama, along with a few other young activists from Ferguson Commission–a group tasked by Missouri governor Jay Nixon with looking into the community’s social and economic problems–to talk about the protests and while this would be the biggest moment in any […]
