A grand jury has declined to indict a former Georgia State Trooper who shot and killed a Black man in 2020 after a stop over a broken taillight. The victim, Julian Lewis, 60, died at the scene. The trooper, Jacob…
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on April 27 that the U.S. Justice Department will investigate police in Louisville, Kentucky. On March 13, 2020, 26-year-old EMT Breonna Taylor was fatally shot after three plainclothes members of the Louisville Metro Police…
On April 27, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Young dismissed a lawsuit brought by one of two men alleging that the late music legend Michael Jackson sexually abused them. The man, Wade Robson, was featured in the contested…
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh called the NCAA’s practices “disturbing.” “The antitrust laws should not be a cover for exploitation of the student-athletes. To pay no salaries to the workers who are making the schools billions of dollars…
Remember these names: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Tiffany Cunningham, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi. These are President Joseph Biden’s first three nominations for the federal Court of Appeals. In 2020, Biden pledged to name the first African American woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. A number of…
Actress and model Cicely Tyson, a legend of the stage and screen whose roles showcased the lives of famous African American women, died on January 28 in New York at 96. Tyson was a much respected and revered artist. Her…
