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Bernie Sanders was scheduled to deliver two speeches in Seattle on Saturday. The first didn’t happen. An appearance by the senator from Vermont at an event celebrating the anniversary of Social Security and Medicare was scuttled after protesters from a local Black Lives Matter chapter took over the stage. Hours later, Sanders, who has been…
WASHINGTON — A day after being interrupted by Black Lives Matters protesters at a campaign event in Seattle, Washington, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a detailed platform on combating racial inequality. Sanders’ campaign posted the platform on his website on Sunday, and he addressed the issue of racial justice that evening in front…
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders walked away from the microphone as activists Mara Jacqueline Willaford and Marissa Johnson disrupted a rally at Westlake Center on Saturday where he was scheduled to speak about Social Security. (Photo by Alex Garland) On Saturday, Bernie Sanders came to Seattle for a fundraiser and rally. At the rally at Westlake…
content The Lineup During an Oct. 9 court hearing, Blazs denied Boyle’s request to toss the photo spreads. The judge also decided, Boyle said, that the state hadn’t violated any discovery rules or laws primarily because he didn’t find the discovery and document delays to be deliberate. But the defense’s ongoing complaints about discovery had…
AD ads_sharebox_260x60 FreeHowardMorgan.com Entry Text A 61-year-old Chicago man who was shot 28 times by Chicago police officers in 2005 — and lived to tell his side of the story — was sentenced early Thursday afternoon to serve 40 years in prison, essentially a life sentence. Howard Morgan, himself a former Chicago police officer, was…
Credit: Jake Reeves/The Huffington Post FERGUSON, Mo. — Nearly a half-century ago, a University of Missouri law professor named T.E. Lauer issued a warning. Missouri’s network of municipal courts, he wrote, were “a modern anomaly” generally “overlooked or ignored as the misshapen stepchildren of our judicial system.” It was “disgraceful,” he argued, that poor people…
Photo The burial service for Sandra Bland on Saturday in Lisle, Ill. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times LISLE, Ill. — Funerals are often predictably somber — a cloistering and culminating of grief and pain. Not Sandra Bland’s funeral. (Everyone called her Sandy, by the way.) Sandy’s was simultaneously celebratory and defiant. Bland…
Once again, cultural appropriation is igniting a flurry of controversy — and for the umpteenth time, the case relates to black women’s hair. Allure magazine finds itself in the middle of a stormy response to a hair tutorial published in its August 2015 issue titled, “You (Yes, You) Can Have An Afro.*” The asterisk reads: “even if…
Photo Credit Oliver Munday LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe. It was a brutal, senseless thing. The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy of arrogant privilege, an animal’s being lured out of safety and…
For many African Americans, tuning into the nightly news and skimming through social media timelines has become an exercise in maintaining psychological well-being. The barrage of videos in which police officers attack and kill black people, along with ongoing discussions about race-based violence, can elicit fears that they, too, may succumb to an officer’s bullet….