News From A Colorful Perspective
Recent allegations of police brutality in Hamilton County, Tennessee have prompted the county’s District Attorney’s Office to set up a hotline for residents to make reports. The DA’s office said they’ve received a number of videos that have prompted them to investigate. One of these videos includes dashcam footage of…
In the mid-2000s, cities in the South went on a spree criminalizing “saggy pants” and instituting bans. Ultraconservatives have made up the false narrative that the practice of “sagging” is linked to gangs. In February, Shreveport Police in Louisiana tried to stop Anthony Childs because of his saggy pants. As…
The future of the United States recognizes policy as the way to combat racism. While many of the country’s institutions still benefit from the work of enslaved men and women and uphold the policies that continue to create wealth, health, education, and housing deficits for Blacks, Georgetown University students voted,…
Four white University of Georgia Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members have been expelled from the organization after a racist video surfaced. In the grainy video, the four students are shown mocking slavery and using racist slurs. The first part shows a student jokingly hitting a person under a blanket and saying…
The NAACP and Rev. Dr. William Barber called out evangelical Christians who back President Donald Trump’s family separation policy, and called the policy racist. “We see this happening,” Barber said, “and this attack on children we know it’s brown children, it wouldn’t be happening if it wasn’t brown children at…
Dennis Barnette, a white Cincinnati police officer, called a Black woman the “N-word” as he tried to take her into custody at a nightclub. It was recorded on the body camera of another officer at the scene. Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac wrote in an email to his supervisor, City…
A white teen, social media identified as a student at Southington High School in Connecticut, made a racist video that included threats of lynching Black people and claims that he “hung 12 Black men from a tree just this night.” The teen refers to people in the group chat as…
Running a grassroots campaign with little help from the Democratic Party, Gwen Collins-Greenup could make history as the first Black woman to be elected to statewide office in Louisiana. She would become Louisiana’s first female Secretary of State since 1932, and the second ever in the state’s history. A runoff…
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican in the Senate, opposed President Trump’s nomination of Thomas Farr to become a federal judge, on Thursday, ending his chances of confirmation. Trump’s choice — an attorney who has supported voter suppression targeting Blacks — caused Scott to defy the leader of…
In an election where corruption coated democracy, racism threatened freedom, and where Oprah Winfrey felt the need to take her billion-dollar self to the doors of voters, Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate, is making sure that every single voter’s voice is heard. Brian Kemp, a Trump conservative, is…
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