"Whites are overrepresented on juries in recent police shooting cases," a report says.
The Huffington Post analyzed the 13 police shooting trials since August 2014 that juries decided. Majority-White juries decided all but two of those case
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The director of a West Virginia nonprofit group who was placed on leave after making a racist comment about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook plans to return to her job this month.
Clay County Development director Pamela Ramsey Taylor made the post following Trump’s election, saying: “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels.”
The Charleston-Gazette reports a letter from the agency’s acting director Lesl
One student from the university tweeted out several videos of the scene. In one video several people were heard yelling, ‘Let them go!’ as police (pictured) tried to ‘push protesters’ out the door. ‘No Nazi’s, no KKK, no fascist USA!’ protesters chanted.
Hundreds of people protested a white nationalist’s speaking engagement at the Texas A&M University campus Tuesday night.
Several groups protested outside of the student center during and before the appearance by Richard Spencer, who leads a w
Ms. Miller’s evangelical faith guided and anchored much of her life until the presidential election, when the white evangelical church voted 81% in favor of Donald Trump. “On November 8, white evangelical Christianity and I called it quits,” wrote Ms. Miller online. (PHOTO: LEAH NASH FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)
The contentious election is a ripe topic for sermons but is sending some churchgoers to the doors
The election is over and so is Brandi Miller’s religious affiliation.
“On Nov. 8, w
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former campaign 2016 rival Ben Carson to become secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Trump’s decision, announced early Monday by his transition office, comes as the real estate mogul continues a series of interviews, meetings with aides and other deliberations aimed at forming his administration.
In a statement, Trump says he’s “thrilled to nominate” Carson, saying he “has a br
Since its earliest days, the Black Lives Matter movement has been a lightning rod throughout the country and in the media.
It was born out of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 killing of the unarmed, African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin, in Florida and grew in response to high-profile deaths of black men and women at the hands of police. It has been a rallying cry for its supporters from all ethnic backgrounds who’d like to see police and others held accountable for the treatm
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The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one,which explores “the electoral college and its racist roots,” remind us ho
I’ve been taking some deep breaths.
I was shocked but not surprised by the outcome of the 2016 election. I knew that Donald Trump could become president even though I honestly did not believe that he would. And to paraphrase Shakespeare’s Marc Antony, friends, Christians, and fellow Americans: lend me your ears: I’ve not come to bury Hillary Clinton or to praise her. I’m not about to argue policies or the relative trustworthiness of the two main candidates. That’s been done ad nauseam.
What I
As shoppers were busy making purchases on one of the most crucial shopping days of the year, hundreds of people took to the streets in cities across the country on Friday to protest various issues, including police mistreatment of minorities and retail workers to the fur trade industry.
In Illinois, activists have called for a shopping boycott in Chicago’s downtown on Black Friday as around 400 people gathered in the city’s Magnificent Mile shopping district to demand an elected civilian polic
A White Talladega, Alabama, police officer was fired last week after posting a racist meme of at First Lady Michelle Obama, reports The Washington Post.
Officer Joel Husk posted a meme that said Obama was “fluent in ghetto,” to which Talladega City Manager Patrick Bryant responded: “We will not tolerate that kind of conduct by any employees. We take very seriously our responsibility to treat everyone equally and equitably. We have to make sure we take steps for the community to trust us.”
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At least two more churches have been vandalized with what appears to be pro-Donald Trump racist graffiti, according to the houses of worship.
One of the churches, St. David's Episcopal, in Beanblossom, Ind., was targeted sometime Saturday, a Facebook post from the church says.
"Three tags were painted on the outside of the church," the post says, including "Heil Trump" and a swastika.
"We are disappointed that our safe haven has been vandalized but will not let the actions of a few damper our
The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama caused a backlash and prompted calls on social media for both women to be fired.
Clay County Development Corp. director Pamela Ramsey Taylor made the post following Donald Trump's election as president, saying: "It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I'm tired of seeing a Ape in heels."
Clay Mayor Beverly Whali
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a child while speaking at a campaign rally at the KI Convention Center on October 17, 2016 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
*For whatever reason, Donald Trump has been trying real hard to win over the black community. This after being fined by the government for his and his father’s racist policies that kept African Americans from renting in any of their properties. He also ca
The nation celebrated Veterans Day on Friday, saluting family, friends and neighbors who fought in every single war for the country. But America must also acknowledge the treatment of its Black veterans, many of whom were brutalized and abused after returning home from service.
The Equal Justice Initiative recently released Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans, a 52-page report which painstakingly “documents the culture of targeted physical violence and social humiliation that black ve
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Breathe.
Black people in America are in a constant state of trauma. The realities of everyday racist microaggressions, to the neverending stream of police shootings of unarmed black folk, to the spiritual damage of slavery, Jim Crow, and beyond.
For many black Americans and other Americans of color, Donald Trump’s election on Tuesday feels like a stab in the gut, a reminder that despite the bubbles of progressiveness that we live in, a wide swath of the nation
Civil rights hero from 60s takes criticism as Trump backer
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, image made from video, Clarence Henderson, a participant in the Feb. 1, 1960, sit-in at a Greensboro, N.C., Woolworth lunch counter, speaks at a campaign event in High Point, N.C., in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Henderson has been criticized for his stance, with many taking to Twitter to accuse him of abandoning the principles he fough
The piece, ”The Pains of Humanity Have Been Draining Me,” is a deep and honest revelation into Lecrae’s heart. The artist gets about personal about his feelings as he’s ever done before and tries to paint a picture of some of the noise going on his head.
“I navigate different cultures daily, and I
FBI Director James Comey on Sunday spoke at the International Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego, and said that those who believe there is a police shooting epidemic of Black men “have no idea” what they’re talking about, according to ABC News.
Viral videos of police gunning down Black men, he noted before the gathering of thousands of law enforcement officials, do not an epidemic make, but serve to make the public believe that all police are untrained bigots.
“In the absence of informa
The summer of 2016 has been dubbed by some the Summer of Justice. As the presidential candidates held their conventions, unrest in America could no longer be contained.
Demonstrations by grassroots chapters of the Black Lives Matter movement demanded justice again and again as video after video went viral showing black men and women beaten and killed by police officers.
The images were hauntingly similar to photographs and newsreels from 50 and 60 years ago.
Brutality in action was captured in
