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Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of Ben Fields, a senior deputy who forcibly removed a female student who refused to leave her high school math class at Spring Valley High School on Monday. Alex Sanz/AP hide caption itoggle caption Alex Sanz/AP Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announces the firing of…
Don Lemon and Sunny Hostin YouTube screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Don Lemon is forever on the wrong side of everything. Whether he’s questioning the Black Lives Matter movement, asking people if they’re offended by the n-word or stealing the spotlight from a llama, CNN’s anchor seems to effortlessly make asinine statements. Monday night, Lemon was…
CNN’s Don Lemon took heat on his own show, CNN Tonight, on Tuesday after claiming viewers simply didn’t have enough information to reach a conclusion about the brutal arrest of a teenage black girl caught on video Monday. The clips shows Richland County Sheriff’s Deputy Ben Fields violently flipping over the student’s desk at Columbia, South Carolina’s Spring…
A Louisville police officer is facing assault and misconduct charges after his alleged use of force at a middle school. Screenshot from school surveillance footage Over the past year, video footage from around the country of law enforcement officers killing citizens, many of them black, has brought scrutiny on policing in the streets. Yet,…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rufus Scales, 26 and black, was driving his younger brother Devin to his hair-cutting class in this genteel, leafy city when they heard the siren’s whoop and saw the blue light in the rearview mirror of their black pickup. Two police officers pulled them over for minor infractions that included expired plates…
Churches in the St. Louis area are officially under attack. On Thursday, the Shrine of St. Joseph’s became the seventh church in two weeks to have its door set on fire by an apparent arsonist. On Monday that number had been five, and all the churches were predominantly black. St. Joseph’s is Catholic church with…
While Donald Trump is bragging about closing mosques to fight Islamic terrorism, there has been an under-reported surge of right-wing terrorism recently in the U.S. Since July, when anti-choice crusaders released hoax videos that falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood sells fetal body parts, there has been a rash of arsons at clinics, at least one…
Anti-police brutality activists in New York City took a trip to a gentrified neighborhood on October 18 to catch white people freely committing the type of crimes that get black and brown people regularly harassed by cops. The group that organized the action, the Police Reform Organizing Project, or PROP, took to the streets of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers while using software that could have been exploited, according to data and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Clinton’s server, which…
Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot…