‘I Don’t Feel Like I Did Anything Wrong’: Young Black Woman Faces Prison Time and Hate Crime Charge for Defacing ‘Back the Blue’ Sign In Front of Police Officer

July 14, 2021  A young Utah woman’s heated yet unthreatening response to an officer’s treatment of her and a friend landed her in jail. Nineteen-year-old Lauren Gibson and her friends were driving back to California from a camping trip in Panguitch, Utah, when the group was […]

Indigenous peoples scream for help in Brazil

By Viviane Faver   About 850 members from nearly four dozen Brazilian indigenous communities are camped in Brasilia to fight for indigenous land rights currently under consideration in the courts and Congress of Brazil.    While lawmakers still debate the issue, indigenous peoples continue to be forcibly […]

Spike Lee talks about ‘Black people being hunted down’ at Cannes press conference

Lee is the first Black jury president at Cannes, and described it as “the world’s greatest film festival” during Tuesday’s official press conference At the Cannes Film Festival press conference on Tuesday, jury president and esteemed filmmaker Spike Leespoke on “Black people being hunted down,” Donald Trump, […]

Erriyon Knighton, the 17-Year-Old American Who Broke Usain Bolt’s Junior Record, Makes History Again

July 2, 2021  EditEdit with WPBakery Page Builder Seventeen-year-old track and field star Erriyon Knighton has been working hard this month, and it’s officially paying off. Late last month, Knighton broke Usain Bolt’s under-18 200 meters record with a time of 20.11 shortly after going pro — the Jamaican Olympic […]