Alabama Denies Parole To Dying 71-Year-Old Black Woman
Photo: Alabama Prison The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles last week denied medical parole to Leola Harris, 71, who uses a wheelchair, relies on dialysis, and is…
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Ed Mullins Pleads Guilty To Defrauding NYPD Sergeants Union
Photo: YouTube Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Edward Mullins, the former President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association (“SBA”),…
AAMA Congratulates Mayor Bowser On Receiving Marion Barry Award
Photo: AAMA (D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser accepts the Marion Barry, Jr. Award for Public Service) (Washington D.C.) – The African American Mayors Association (AAMA) is delighted to honor…
Formula 1 Champion Lewis Hamilton: I Was Racially Abused As Kid
Photo: YouTube Lewis Hamilton says he had bananas thrown at him and was regularly the subject of racial abuse at school. The Mercedes driver, 38, says his school…
BLACC Denounces DeSantis’ Attack On AP Black Studies
Photo: YouTube (Black PR Wire) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- It is appalling that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made a decision to prohibit high school students from being…
Election Denialism: Americans Bailed Out Democracy—For Now
Photo: YouTube I got Jocelyn Benson on the phone the day after last fall’s midterms. I was expecting some exhaustion. It had been a long night of returns…
Sharpton Responds To Latest Siena Poll On Crime In NYS
Photo: Screenshot New York, NY (January 23, 2023) – Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), issued the following statement on the Siena…
BLK Insurance Is Solution To Protecting Black Businesses
Photo: We Buy Black\https://wbbtoo.com/ In 1921, White mobs bombed more than 150 Black businesses in Tulsa’s Black Wall Street massacre. Afterwards, insurance companies tried to stop the rebuilding…
California’s CRJA Law: Rooting Out Racism From Criminal Justice System
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Long before I joined the ACLU, I was just a skinny brown kid who grew up in the “Inland Empire” — a region of Southern…
Exxon Has Been Lying About Climate Crisis Dangers For Decades
When I was a teenager, I knew global warming was caused by fossil fuels. So did Exxon. For decades, Exxon has been hiding the truth about the climate…