Georgia Wrongfully Purged 200,000 Voters, Many in the Atlanta Metro Area, From Its Rolls, New Report FindsA seven-year investigation of voter suppression in Georgia has found that the state likely removed 200,000 voters…ByAnne BraniginPublishedSeptember 2, 2020
California Is Close to Banning Karens From Weaponizing 911, But What About the State’s Police Reforms?Earlier this week, California lawmakers passed a bill that would ban residents and visitors to the state from making…ByAnne BraniginPublishedSeptember 2, 2020
Survivors and Descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre File Lawsuit Against the City for Its Role in the RiotFor years, residents of Greenwood, the neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., that was once home to Black Wall Street, have…ByAnne BraniginPublishedSeptember 1, 2020
Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Kenneth Walker Sues Louisville Metro Police, Says Wounded Cop Was Injured by Friendly FireKenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who was with her the night she was shot and killed by Louisville…ByAnne BraniginPublishedSeptember 1, 2020
Black Kenosha News Editor Resigns Over Jacob Blake Rally CoverageEditor Daniel Thompson wasn’t covering the Saturday rally for Jacob Blake but attended it anyway. The 30-year-old…ByAnne BraniginPublishedSeptember 1, 2020
New Jersey Mayor Tried to Charge Teenage Activist $2,500 for Police Overtime After She Planned a Black Lives Matter ProtestA New Jersey mayor has rescinded a bill he sent to an 18-year-old activist for $2,500 in alleged police overtime…ByAnne BraniginPublishedSeptember 1, 2020
Seattle Seahawks’ Pete Carroll Calls on Other Head Coaches, White People to Tackle Systemic Racism: ‘This Is a White People’s Issue’Though short-lived, the Milwaukee Bucks’ wildcat strike last week has recalibrated many people’s expectations of…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 31, 2020
Lafayette, La., Where Police Recently Shot and Killed a Black Man, Says It Will Not Shelter Hurricane Evacuees Because of ‘Outside Agitators’In the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, hundreds of thousands of people across the state of Louisiana are still without…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 31, 2020
Family of Layleen Polanco Reaches History-Making $5.9 Million Settlement Over Solitary Confinement DeathThe family of Layleen Polanco, a trans-Afro-Latina who died while in solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail last…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 31, 2020
‘Larger Than Life’ Georgetown Basketball Coach John Thompson Dead at 78Friends and family of Hall of Famer John Thompson, the architect of the Georgetown Hoyas’ gilded age, say the…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 31, 2020
Top Kenosha Police, Prosecutor Under Increased Scrutiny in Wake of Jacob Blake, Protest Shootings: ‘Some People...Aren’t Worth Saving’In the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, all eyes are on top law enforcement in Kenosha, Wis., as…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 28, 2020
Lake Charles Voted to Keep a Confederate Monument Up. Hurricane Laura Had Other PlansSince 1915, a garish statue honoring Confederate soldiers stood tall on the grounds of Lake Charles’ courthouse. This…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 28, 2020
Jacob Blake Is No Longer Handcuffed to His Hospital Bed, Attorney Says [Updated]After being shot in the back multiple times by Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey, 29-year-old Jacob Blake is…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 28, 2020
Dawn of a New Day? Bon Appétit Names Dawn Davis, Award-Winning Publishing Exec, to Helm MagazineNearly three months after Bon Appétit cut ties with then-editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport over accusations of racial…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 27, 2020
Kenosha Police Release Incomplete Report of Jacob Blake Shooting, Claims He Had a Knife in the Car; FBI to InvestigateThree days after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake multiple times in the back in front of his three children, the…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 27, 2020
Without Riot Gear Clad-Police and Armed Militias, 4th Night of Kenosha Protests Is PeacefulDespite a week of violent threats from police and armed militias, the residents of Kenosha, Wisc., turned out for a…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 27, 2020
You Can Count on One Hand the Number of Days the U.S. Has Gone Without a Police Killing Since George Floyd DiedThere are certain figures that, for one reason or another, get seared in your brain. ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 26, 2020
How This Week's March on Washington Has Adjusted Its Political and Social Justice Goals to the CoronavirusOn Friday, activists from across the country will commemorate the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington with…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 26, 2020
Vogue Enlists Black Artists Kerry James Marshall and Jordan Casteel to Paint History-Making September Covers2020 has been the most dizzying year in recent memory, upending much and not enough of our sense of our security,…ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 26, 2020
A Black Professor Asked by Police to Prove She Belonged on Campus Talks About the ‘Surreal’ Experience of Racism in Higher Ed SpacesDanielle Fuentes Morgan had been looking forward to the reunion with her brother for months. ByAnne BraniginPublishedAugust 25, 2020