They found love in a seemingly hopeless place. Alexis Templeton and Brittany Ferrell tied the knot on Tuesday after meeting in Ferguson while protesting against the non-indictment of Officer Darren Wilson. According to BuzzFeed, the women are members of Millennial Activists United, a group dedicated to bringing down racial injustices, sexism, and many other social issues. […]
Ferguson, the Missouri suburb that will forever be stained with the blood of an unarmed black teenager who was gunned down by a white police officer on a blistering hot August day, was freezing. The crowds that lined the streets in late summer were gone. The stores — businesses divided on whether to trust a community […]
After a grand jury cleared Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson of any wrongdoing after shooting and killing an unarmed teenager in August, reports are now saying there were flaws in the grand jury key witness account. According to The Smoking Gun, the grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown charge at Darren Wilson is said to […]
Selma is one of the most important movies you’ll see this year. Directed by Ava DuVernay, the film chronicles the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during the historic civil rights marches he led in Alabama. We spoke with Oscar nominee Common about his contributions to the film, and how hip-hop has contributed to the […]
A day after calling Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins “pathetic” for wearing a “Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford” t-shirt on the field, the president of the Cleveland police union called the killing of the 12-year-old “justified.” Jeffrey Follmer appeared on All in with Chris Hayes Monday to defend his comments about Hawkins’ […]
Gun sales following the death of Michael Brown Jr., the unarmed black teenager fatally shot by white Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson, increased nearly 300 percent in the city, according to local firearms instructor Dennis Davis. The reason, according to Davis, is the “mass hysteria among white people” following the eruption of national protests in […]
Yesterday, nearly 50,000 people gathered in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park to participate in #MillionsMarchNYC, an act of resistance against police brutality. The protests were originally organized by 23-year-old Synead Nichols and 19-year-old Umaara Iynaas Elliott, but as word spread, thousands of people, all different ages and ethnicities, were seen marching. The protests’ purposes were to bring awareness […]
Just days before a Ferguson, Mo. grand jury elected not to indict a white police officer for shooting, killing, and leaving the body of an unarmed black teenager in the street for four hours, business owners along the now infamous West Florissant — a strip of road perpendicular to the street Michael Brown Jr. was killed […]
The NYPD officer who placed an unarmed Eric Garner in a chokehold that contributed to his death in July was formally interviewed by Internal Affairs bureau investigators Monday. Officer Daniel Pantaleo avoided charges earlier this month when a Staten Island grand jury elected not to indict him in the 43-year-old’s death. Shortly after the announcement came […]
Ava DuVernay’s masterful storytelling in the upcoming film Selma transports audiences back to the Civil Rights era, a period of political unrest and progress that resonates now more than ever. Since early August, when Michael Brown Jr., a black unarmed 18-year-old, was killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, youth in St. Louis […]
