Ishena Robinson
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Prince Philip Dies at 99, and Fox News Is Already Blaming Meghan Markle
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of the United Kingdom’s long-serving monarch Queen Elizabeth, has died. He was 99. → Read More
New York Puff-Puff-Passes Bill Legalizing Marijuana and Cuomo Signs It Into Law
Amidst his considerable PR troubles, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Wednesday that should serve as a breezy interlude of good news for New Yorkers who enjoy smoking weed but not the risk of criminalization that has long hovered overuse of the herb. → Read More
The Data Proves It: Black People in America Are Not Even a Demographic Monolith
A new analysis of demographic population data collected during the most recent American Community Survey shows that the face of the Black community in the U.S. is more diverse than ever. → Read More
Sarah Obama, Paternal Step-Grandmother of Former President Barack Obama, Has Died at 99
Barack Obama’s paternal step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, has died at the age of 99. → Read More
Livestream: Watch Opening Arguments in the Derek Chauvin Trial
Opening statements in Derek Chauvin’s trial for the death of George Floyd are set to take place Monday morning in Hennepin County, Minn., marking a pivotal development in the case that launched national racial justice protests and a renewed uprising against police brutality in 2020. → Read More
Jacob Blake Sues Wisconsin Officer Who Shot and Paralyzed Him
Jacob Blake is taking legal action against the police officer who shot him in the back seven times last summer in Kenosha, Wis., paralyzing the 29-year-old Black man. → Read More
China Quotes George Floyd in Report Calling Out America's Racism
The United States loves to position itself on the global stage as a bastion of freedom, justice and democracy with the authority to call out other nations for not sufficiently exhibiting those ideals. → Read More
Damian Williams Could Become Manhattan’s First Black U.S. Attorney
Damian Williams, a longtime New York prosecutor who currently heads the Securities and Commodities Task Force in the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, is now being considered to lead the office. → Read More
10 Dead in Boulder, Colo. Mass Shooting in a Continuation of a Very American Epidemic
As we begin to cautiously hope for the winding down of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, we are also beginning to see the resurgence of another fatal sickness ailing America. → Read More
Investigators Probe Possible Audio Confession in Kendrick Johnson’s Death
The suspicious death of Kendrick Johnson, a Black teen whose body was found in a rolled-up mat in his school gym in 2013, is again under investigation, and a new development hints that a culprit in his death could be identified. → Read More
TD Bank Teller in Connecticut Refuses to Allow Black Woman to Withdraw $1,000
Racism in America just keeps trucking on in ways big and small. → Read More
Wondering When You’ll Get Your Stimmy? Here’s What the Big Banks Say
Though President Biden signed a landmark $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law last Thursday, many Americans are still waiting to receive their portion of the COVID-19 relief funds. → Read More
Texas Legislators Add to the Republican Party’s Ongoing Rush of Voter Suppression Bills
Republican-led state legislatures have openly been waging war on voting access in the wake of their presidential candidate’s defeat in the 2020 elections. → Read More
3rd-Degree Murder Charge Added to Case Against Derek Chauvin
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will face an additional charge during his trial in the killing of George Floyd. → Read More
Missouri Man in Custody After Post-Insurrection Lynching Threat Against Black Lawmaker
A 63-year-old man from Missouri is finally in FBI custody after continuing a years-long tradition of threatening legislators with lynching, as well as targeting them with racist and homophobic slurs. → Read More
Criminal Charges Against Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Kenneth Walker Permanently Dropped
Nearly a year to the date that Louisville Metro Police Department officers entered 26-year-old Breonna Taylor’s home in a raid that ended with them shooting and killing the young woman, charges have finally been permanently dropped against her boyfriend Kenneth Walker. → Read More
Capitol Insurrectionist Suspect Flees to Kenya, Is Deported Back to America to Face Justice
The arrogance of white people never ceases to amaze me. → Read More
Former Trump State Department Employee Arrested in Relation to Capitol Attack
Though Congress failed to hold Trump legally accountable for his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol debacle, connections to the former president keep showing up as federal investigations continue. → Read More
Bunny Wailer, Founding Member of Iconic Reggae Group, Dies at 73
Bunny Wailer, who was the last remaining founding member of the iconic reggae group The Wailers, has died at 73. → Read More
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Case With Critical Implications for Voting Rights Act
It’s no secret that Republicans are inimical to people with melanin having equal, fair access to the ballot box. And today, the Supreme Court—which has a Republican majority—heard arguments in two cases that could demolish what’s left of the Voting Rights Act, a critical bulwark against racial discrimination in voting. → Read More