Mayor de Blasio demanded an end to ICE agents posing as NYPD officers In uptown Manhattan, an immigrant family man was apprehended by ICE agents who was pretending to be NYPD officers. Fernando Santos-Rodriguez is a 48-year-old undocumented immigrant who spent 30 years of his life […]
According to a recently published report from the CDC, Black, Latino and Native American children are dying at a disproportionately higher rate than their white counterparts from COVID-19. The study, published on September 18, documented 391,814 known cases and 121 deaths among people under the age of […]
The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive economic fallout and job layoffs, especially in marginalized communities. According to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 41% of respondents said that they have experienced symptoms of anxiety and depression or […]
With the election season officially underway with the launch of a new civic holiday last week — National Black Voter Day — and National Voter Registration Day this week, we are in desperate need of a new narrative about the Black youth vote. We […]
The grand jury convened in the Breonna Taylor case charged one officer for shooting into neighbor’s apartments, but no charges directly linked to her death A grand jury convened in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death decided to press charges against former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, but […]
Image: Emojipedia Sample Image Collection version 13.1. By Joséphine Li 217 New Emojis have been approved and are expected to come to devices between January to October next year. Unicode, a non-profit that oversees emoji standards, announced the release of more than 200 emojis throughout next […]
The Black community may be more receptive ‘if members of our task force give it the green light,’ says Dr. Leon McDougle. The National Medical Association, a group of Black physicians, has created a task force to independently vet COVID-19 drugs, vaccines and […]
(CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and Thursday so that members of the public can pay their respects, the court announced on Monday. The casket will arrive in front of the Supreme Court just before 9:30 a.m. […]
It was the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled on Monday to end Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for immigrants in the U.S. from four Black and brown countries, but Donald Trump deserves all the credit. That’s because the president “flipped” the traditionally liberal West Coast-based circuit […]
(Photo credits: ABC News) By Juan Ignacio Chávez “Why did they shoot my dad in the back?” asked Jacob Blake Junior‘s children to their grandfather, Jacob Blake Senior. “I can‘t explain that to them,” he tells us. Three weeks after his son Jacob Blake Jr. […]
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