How would you spend a $30,000 check? If you’re an average American, it might all have to go to student loan debt, because that’s how much the average person owes. Overall Americans have over $1 trillion in student loan debt.
Over the last couple of years, millions of Black voters have been purged from voter rolls in America, and it’s not a coincidence.
The Leadership Conference on Human and Civil Rights and hundreds of other organizations believe that we’re experiencing “democracy in peril.” And they want to change it.
The “People’s Justice Guarantee” is a big plan from Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
She wants to tackle several key issues that particularly impact Black people. Some include:
Legalize marijuana
Abolish the death penalty
End cash bail
Decriminalize sex work
She’s NOT scared. And this is just the beginning...
We have plenty of reasons to distrust police and corrections officers, but they don’t usually make their racism THIS blatant.
That’s why Michael Johnson was so surprised when he walked past a Calfornia Corrections and Rehabilitation office in Sacramento and saw a Nazi flag hanging on a wall inside.
At age 4, getting stung by bees TWICE was supposed to make Mikaila Ulmer terrified of nature’s most endangered pollinator.
Instead, she turned a new fascination with the honeybee into a business she hoped would help save them.
“I thought, what if I make something that helps honeybees and uses my Great Granny Helen's [flaxseed lemonade] recipe?” she shares.
The Queen of Soul passed away in 2018, leaving a lasting legacy of hit songs, 18 of which won Grammy awards. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award, was inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Now, her life story will soon become a major film.
According to The Root, it will chronicle her “rise to fame in the 1960s and 1970s and some of her tumultuous relationships.”
Back in 2017, in Baton Rouge, LA, officer Christopher Manuel was driving his Corvette and doing 94 in a 50mph zone - nearly double the speed limit. But he wasn’t in a police car rushing to the scene of a crime - he was off duty.
He ended up crashing into the SUV carrying Brittany Stephens and her infant child, sending it spinning end-over-end. The infant was killed in the crash.
Throughout the United States of America, emboldened racists have steadily been stepping from the shadows to proudly display their hate.
Since Donald Trump was elected, and actually even when Barack Obama was president, hate crime numbers were increasing for the worse.
So… why aren’t these numbers adding up?
Non-unanimous jury verdicts have been a tool used to enforce racism in the courtroom for a long time.
When Black people got more rights after emancipation, the white supremacist power structures did their best to maintain their power... and apparently it worked, since we still face it today.
Once Black people were able to take part in the jury process, white people switched up the rules.
This 21-year-old Black man is shaking up Denver’s school system with his recent School Board election win! Here’s what you need to know about Tay Anderson:
Anderson was student body president at Manual High School.