A new report by The Washington Post examines the change in Covid-19 mortality that started in October 2021. From the beginning of the pandemic, the racial disparity between Black and white folks dying from the coronavirus was substantial. Black people were more than three times as likely to die from covid […]
*Prominent Black activist Francia Márquez could become Columbia’s next vice president. Márquez has “faced death threats, racist tweets — even an assassination attempt,” per The Washington Post, also noting that “the president of Colombia’s senate accused her of links to one of the country’s most violent guerrilla groups,” […]
Parents of a young boy with ADHD filed a lawsuit against their son’s school district after the child was placed in a chokehold and arrested following an outburst. Ashley Hutchinson-Harper and Terry Harper, the boy’s parents, filed the lawsuit May 9. It comes one year after the child, identified only […]
Experts predict the 2020 census will show a decline in the white population for the first time in U.S. history and that the under 18 population is likely to be majority non-white. For the first time, the percentage of the white population could fall below […]
Officers killed four suspects and arrested two others in theassassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, 53, The Washington Post reports. The attack on the president, which took place in the early morning hours on Wednesday, July 7, and also resulted in injuries to his wife, has heightened […]
A lawsuit accuses leaders of continuing to enrich themselves at the expense of the Black community in Tulsa Black entrepreneurs say they have been reduced to renters in the historic Greenwood district, an area of Tulsa, so prosperous, it was once known as Black Wall […]
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