Buffalo, New York-May 21, 2022: Memorial with flowers and candles to honor the victims of the mass shooting at the Tops market in Buffalo NY. A police SUV is turning the corner in the background. (Shutterstock) By Chris Kenning and Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY BUFFALO, N.Y. – A day after a white gunman in military […]
Editorial credit: Marlin360 / Shutterstock.com By Joey Garrison, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said “white supremacy is a poison” and vowed “hate will not prevail” during a trip Tuesday to Buffalo, New York, where he grieved with family members of 10 victims killed Saturday in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket. […]
By Karen Greene Braithwaite, as told to Lynnette Nicholas, Reader’s Digest When I was growing up in the late 1970s, I didn’t learn the full truth about America’s history from my teachers. Back then, you only got bits and pieces of America’s past. It wasn’t until college that I became more informed. When the Declaration […]
By Stephen T. Watson , Lou Michel, Buffalo News Law enforcement officials who investigate mass shootings sometimes struggle to to find out what led the assailant to commit such heinous crimes. In the case of the man who they say perpetrated Saturday’s assault that took the lives of 10 people and wounded three more, they […]
Washington, DC, USA / November 7, 2020. People gather at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House to celebrate after Joe Biden is announced President-Elect. (Shutterstock) By Domenico Montanaro, NPR Following the shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., focus has been trained on the “replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory. That’s because a white […]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – AUGUST 21, 2017: Protesting against white supremacy and racism in downtown Chicago after the tragedy in Charlottesville. (Shutterstock) Washington, DC – Following the white supremacist killings in Buffalo, we highlighted how the gunman’s online manifesto included Great Replacement Theory and “invasion” language that echoed those of Republican candidates and elected officials, and called them […]
By DeMicia Inman, VIBE Leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation national organization have come under criticism for purchasing a million-dollar property using donated funds and allegedly attempting to hide the transaction. New York Magazine reporter Sean Campbell linked a $6 million California home to the organization after Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and […]
By Emma Specter, Vogue In what feels like an increasingly rare win for progressive values in the U.S., the House of Representatives voted 235-189 on Friday to pass the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act, a bill that seeks to ban race-based hair discrimination in employment and against those participating […]
New York, NY – September 22, 2020: Census 2020 employees seen at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem during Census Drive. (Shutterstock) By Hansi Lo Wang, NPR The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a […]
Wroclaw, Poland – March 4; 2022: Aid for war refugees from Ukraine organized at the railway station in Wrocław. Pictured Polish volunteers and refugees. (Shutterstock) By Grace Hauck, USA Today Hundreds of refugees from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen were stranded at the border of Belarus and Poland late last year, starving and freezing in […]