North Carolina Jury Awards $75 Million to Brothers Who Spent 3 Decades in Prison After Being Wrongfully ConvictedA federal civil rights trial in North Carolina ended with a jury awarding two Black, mentally challenged…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 18, 2021
Report: White Supremacists Pose Greatest Threat to Domestic SecurityA recently released report by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security says that racially motivated…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 18, 2021
Minnesota Judge Finds There’s Probable Cause to Charge Former Officer Kim Porter With 2nd Degree Murder in Shooting of Daunte WrightAs the trial of Derek Chauvin was winding down, the cycle of grief and outrage began once more after Daunte Wright…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 18, 2021
As the NBA Playoffs Approach, I Have 1 Request: Can We Get Some Fun Basketball Video Games Again?Like clockwork, every April I begin to pay more attention to the NBA as the playoffs get underway. Now this season,…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 17, 2021
Family of Tamir Rice Wants Biden Administration to Reopen Federal Investigation Into his DeathThe family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by Cleveland police officers in 2014, is…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 17, 2021
Former Texas Prosecutor Disbarred After Withheld Evidence Led to 2 Black Men Spending 14 Years in Prison Over Wrongful ConvictionIt would be far easier to trust this country’s legal system if it didn’t feel like it was consistently the site of…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 17, 2021
Parents at New York School Upset After Students Receive Assignment That States George Floyd Didn’t Die From Knee on NeckIs there some sort of teacher lottery going on that I don’t know about? I feel like every day a single teacher is…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 14, 2021
Ohio City Agrees to $10 Million Settlement for the Family of André HillI’m somewhat surprised that we still haven’t reached the point where legislators are pushing police reform. Even if…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 14, 2021
Slay Titans in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass PricesWell, y’all. Between the countless bots and the global superconductor shortage, it’s looking like obtaining a PS5 or…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 14, 2021
President of the 2nd Largest Teachers' Union in Favor of Schools Returning to In-Person LearningOne of the continually controversial aspects of the pandemic has been how we should handle a return to in-person…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 13, 2021
Coach at Illinois High School Resigns After an Alleged Racist Remark Leads to Bomb ThreatI’m continually at a loss for why racists go into teaching. It never ends well for them. A coach at an Illinois high…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 13, 2021
Minneapolis Judge Postpones Trial for the 3 Ex-Cops Charged in George Floyd’s Death Until 2022A judge ruled on Thursday that the trial of the three former Minneapolis cops charged in aiding and abetting the…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 13, 2021
Nothing Bitter About It: Regina King to Direct Adaptation of Bitter Root, a Comic You Really Should Be ReadingWhen I’m not busy getting internet randos in their feelings, I’m generally reading a large amount of comic books. Bit…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 12, 2021
Georgia Man Free After Spending 2 Years in Jail for a Crime He Didn’t CommitIt’s really hard to have faith in a system that routinely allows cops to get away with things that would see the…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 12, 2021
Judge Rules Derek Chauvin Could Face Longer Sentencing Since He Treated George Floyd With ‘Particular Cruelty’When former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder in the death of George Floyd,…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 12, 2021
Need a Ride? Biden Administration Partners With Uber and Lyft to Give Free Rides to Vaccination SitesNow that vaccines are becoming more widely available, we have a genuine shot at being able to move into a new normal…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 11, 2021
Citizen’s Arrest Law Repealed in Georgia Ahead of First Federal Hearing in Ahmaud Arbery CaseThe shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery stood out last year because unlike so many instances of an unarmed Black man…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 11, 2021
Efforts to Ban White Supremacists From Joining Law Enforcement Face Pushback in Several States. I Wonder WhyThe Capitol riot has seemingly awakened white America to a fact we’ve known for quite a while: racists work…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 11, 2021
White Fragility Results in 2 Black Boys Being Pulled from Class at Their Oklahoma Elementary Schools for Wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ ShirtsIt’s incredibly frustrating seeing white people spin a statement as innocuous as “Black Lives Matter” as politics.…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 10, 2021
Mask Off: Dr. Fauci Says CDC Guidance on Indoor Mask Wearing Will Loosen as More People Get VaccinatedI’ve been all about masks during the pandemic. Honestly, wearing my mask and glasses is the closest thing I’ll ever…ByJoe JuradoPublishedMay 10, 2021