*Several months after his death, it’s been announced that the death of Keenan Anderson, cousin of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, was due to cocaine and an enlarged heart and not the tasering he received from the LAPD which some thought had killed him. The finding was announced […]
The catch when it comes to being a racist is that, well, you can’t really be one without physically exhibiting some sort of racial intolerance. Of course by doing so, you’re also risking universal public scrutiny, career-ending backlash and in many cases legal repercussions — […]
Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges in the death of George Floyd. The jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and […]
By Victor Omondi Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African American, was shot by a white police officer on November 22, 2014, while playing with what would later be found to be a toy gun. His mother Samaria Rice has since sought justice for the loss of […]
An independent investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colo., has found that police used force on the young man with no justification and that paramedics who later came to the scene dosed him with ketamine based on an “inflated […]
Viviane Faver A Brooklyn-based group called Safe Walks NYC offers safe walking from subway stations in response to violence in the neighborhood. In an exclusive interview for the New York Beacon, founder Peter Kerre -also founder of Street Riders NYC and involved in the Black […]
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