Capitol Chief Says Extremists Want to 'Blow Up the Capitol' at Biden's State of the Union AddressThe U.S. Capitol is still at risk of a domestic terrorist attack—potentially one even bigger than the violence white…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 25, 2021
Biden Administration Will Send Masks to Low-Income Communities Across the CountryWe’re a year into the pandemic, but the U.S. government is still getting around to implementing some common-sense…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 25, 2021
Pentagon Report Spotlights White Supremacism in U.S. Military That Can Increase ‘Potency of Planned Violent Attacks’The recent revelations of a Pentagon report sent to Congress ahead of the 2020 election probing white supremacy in…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 25, 2021
Third COVID-19 Vaccine, This Time From Johnson & Johnson, Could Soon Be Available in the U.S.Another COVID-19 vaccine is likely to hit the scene in the coming weeks, hopefully hastening the day when the nation…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 24, 2021
lllinois Becomes First State to End Cash Bail After Governor Signs Historic Criminal Reform Measure Into LawIllinois on Monday became the first state to eliminate cash bail, the system under which people are kept in jail…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 24, 2021
Prosecutors Say 20-Year Veteran of NYPD Attacked Cop at Capitol ‘Like a Junkyard Dog,’ Beat Him With Metal PoleA former officer with the New York Police Department, whose duties once included guarding City Hall and the mayor’s…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 24, 2021
Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother Files Civil Lawsuit Against Son’s Killers, Glynn County Officials on Anniversary of DeathOne year to the day that 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down by Travis McMichael and his father Greg McMichael…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 23, 2021
Security Officials Testify to Senate That Violent Capitol Insurrection Was Unforeseeable, Blame Breakdown in IntelligenceAt a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the former chief of Capitol Police, Steven Sund, stridently denied that the violent…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 23, 2021
COVID Death Toll in America Tops 500,000, Black Americans and Other Communities of Color Still Have Highest Rates of LossOn Monday, the U.S. marked nearly a year since the ongoing coronavirus pandemic arrived on our shores by reaching a…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 23, 2021
Independent Probe in Elijah McClain Case Accuses Aurora Cops and Medics of Wrongdoing and That Internal Investigation of Incident Was SuspectAn independent investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colo., has found…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 22, 2021
We Sure Aren’t Living in a Post-Racial World: U.N. Head Says White Supremacy a ‘Transnational Threat’America exports a whole lot of its culture to the rest of the globe—music, movies, ways of dress, slang. This…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 22, 2021
Letter From Deceased Black Cop Implicates FBI and NYPD in Malcolm X’s Death; Daughters of Icon Call for InvestigationMore than 50 years after Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York at the hands of members of…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 22, 2021
28 Days of Black Joy: Black SisterhoodMara Brock Akil’s iconic Girlfriends came back into our lives via Netflix last year, but though binge-watching the…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 22, 2021
Head of Indianapolis Art Museum Resigns After Tone-Deaf Job Posting For Someone to Maintain Institution’s ‘Core, White Art Audience’There’s already evidence of telling slip-ups from organizations trying, and failing, to authentically show a…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 19, 2021
6 Capitol Officers Suspended (With Pay) for Behavior During Jan. 6 Insurrection; 29 More Under InvestigationWhile the behavior of many of the police officers who faced the enormous mob of Trump supporters and QAnon adherents…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 19, 2021
Democrats Introduce Sweeping Immigration Legislation, Offering 3 to 8 Year Path to Citizenship for Undocumented ImmigrantsCongressional Democrats are moving forward with the campaign promise of overhauling America’s problematic and…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 18, 2021
Black People in America Have Lost Nearly 3 Years of Life Expectancy Since the PandemicHere’s the latest bad news coming out of the horrid COVID-19 pandemic: Black Americans have lost nearly three years…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 18, 2021
Alicia Garza and Black to the Future Action Fund on What Democrats Owe Black VotersBlack organizers are leveraging the powerful showing of Black voters in the last election to call on President Biden…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 18, 2021
Black McDonald's Franchise Owner Files Lawsuit Accusing Company of DiscriminationAccording to Herbert Washington, a former Oakland Athletics player and current owner of 14 McDonald’s franchises,…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 17, 2021
Massive Racial Disparity in Kentucky’s Vaccination Numbers Underscores the Enduring Power of Structural RacismThe racial inequities that have been brought into stark relief by the COVID-19 pandemic are again being made…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedFebruary 17, 2021