(CNN)Eleven months after the earliest recorded case of coronavirus in the United States, medical workers are preparing to give the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, with deliveries set to arrive at administration sites from around 8 a.m. ET Monday. Thousands of vials of the […]
By Viviane Faver This weekend, pro-Trump protesters tore and burned Black Lives Matter banners at two African American churches in D.C., according to the Washington Post. According to the organization Black Lives Matter, the group had targeted the Ashbury United Methodist Church, which has […]
Federal moratoriums on evictions will expire at the beginning of the year, but a new bill introduced today may help The holiday season is supposed to be a time when families gather together to exchange gifts and appreciation. But this year’s holiday season has […]
A popular Denver bookstore that has fallen on hard financial times due to the coronavirus pandemic has announced that it is selling the business, and will become the country’s largest Black-owned independent bookstore in the acquisition. The Tattered Cover owners Len Vlahos and Kristen […]
The NAACP – the most prominent interracial civil rights organization in American history – published the first issue of The Crisis, its official magazine, 110 years ago, in 1910. For almost two and a half decades, sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois served […]
(Los Angeles, CA) – The Critics Choice Association announced today the incredible talent that it will recognize, virtually, at the third annual Celebration of Black Cinema on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. The ceremony will be hosted by author and media personality Bevy Smith. Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) will receive The Career […]
The Minneapolis City Council has decided to devote a small portion of the city’s police budget to alternative methods of policing including violence prevention specialists and mental health crisis teams, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Washington Post. In a budget that was approved on […]
By Viviane Faver Aurora, Colorado lawyers, police officers, and doctors involved in Elijah McClain’s death filed several motions with the US Colorado District Court last week to dismiss a lawsuit filed by McClain’s family in August. The lawsuit alleges that discriminatory […]
What country do you live in? Racism is alive & well in the United States of America. This is a letter I have been meaning to write over the course of the past year while I have been active in the call for social justice. […]
(CNN)The Department of Homeland Security will begin to accept new applications for the Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation to comply with a recent court order, the department announced Monday. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration […]
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