Justice department attacks three U.S. cities, declaring them anarchist zones — despite most of the protests that took place in each city being peaceful marches in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In a move designed to pull federal funding from New York City, Seattle and Portland, OR, the…
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Attorney General William Barr Announces Plan to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis
Attorney General William Barr announced a $1.5 million plan to recover Native American people who have gone missing. He unveiled the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative Friday at a meeting with tribal and law enforcement officials at the Flathead Reservation in Montana. Indigenous people — especially women — go…
Ada County, Idaho’s Employment Policy Now Protects Against LGBTQ Discrimination
While at the federal level, the Trump Administration is making moves that will prevent protections against workplace discrimination for LGBTQ individuals, Ada County, Idaho has expanded its anti-discrimination policies to specifically protect LGBTQ applicants. At the end of August, Ada County commissioners approved the broad wording of the policy after…
Federal Death Penalty Reinstated, Blacks Disproportionately Affected
The Justice Department will reinstate the death penalty at the federal level, according to an announcement made by Attorney General William Barr on July 25. Previously, there hadn’t been any federal executions in sixteen years. Attorney General William Barr quickly moved to schedule five executions after the announcement. Under his…
#ICan’tBreathe: Charges Dropped Against Officer Daniel Pantaleo for Choking Eric Garner
Five years ago, Eric Garner’s dying words “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter activists and those protesting police brutality against people of color. A day before the fifth anniversary of Garner’s death, Attorney General William Barr ordered that the charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD…
U.S. Justice Department Charges Racist Kroger Killer With Hate Crime
Gregory Bush, the racist murderer of two Black shoppers at a Kentucky Kroger store last month, was indicted Thursday on federal hate crime charges. Bush, 51, was charged with six counts, including two counts of a hate crime, resulting in death, one count of a hate crime with attempt to…
Trump Tries to Shift Responsibility for Separated Families to ACLU
Trump’s administration said that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) should bear the responsibility and use its “network of law firms, NGOs, volunteers and others” to find the more than 500 immigrant parents separated from children and deported without them. But U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said: “The reality is…
Justice Department Reopens Emmett Till Case But What About Modern-Day Lynchings
The Department of Justice is reopening the case surrounding the brutal, racially motivated murder of Emmett Till in 1955. The announcement was made in March, citing newly discovered information pertinent to the case, but made its way into headlines on Thursday. But why now The decision was sparked by information…
Jeff Sessions Rescinds Documents Protecting Minorities Just Ahead of Independence Day
On July 3rd — the day before America was gearing up to celebrate Independence Day — Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was busy rescinding guidance intended to protect minorities. In a statement Sessions called the documents “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.” Sessions’ action does not…
First Prosecuted 'Black Identity Extremist' Speaks Out: 'It's Tyranny at its Finest'
Rakem Balogun was arrested in December 2017 outside of his apartment in Dallas, Texas. He recalled being awoken in the middle of the night and taken outside by FBI agents while in his underwear. Balogun, 34, told The Guardian he was under surveillance for at least two years because of…