News From A Colorful Perspective
Protestors rallied outside of the Colorado Springs police headquarters Aug. 13 to protest the police shooting of 19-year-old De’Von Bailey. His family is calling for justice through an independent investigation of the incident. A white police officer shot the teen responding to a report of a robbery Aug. 3. Officers…
A new study from Rutgers University-Newark has found that police are a leading cause of death among young — especially Black — men in America today. The study, which compiled data on police-involved deaths in the U.S., estimated the risks of being killed in a law enforcement encounter by age,…
St. Louis, Missouri police sergeant Heather Taylor did not hesitate to answer “yes” when CBS News reporter Jeff Pegues asked her if she believed there were white supremacists on the police force. Taylor’s answer comes after a damning exposé by the Plain View Project, a database of thousands of racist,…
A photo of two white Galveston, Texas mounted police officers leading a handcuffed Black man on a rope has prompted the city’s police chief to issue an apology. The photo an anonymous witness took and shared Aug. 3 has gone viral, sparking outrage for hearkening back to images of slavery…
Jeremy and Gina Miller have been married for 13 years. He is white and she’s Black. They have five children with a sixth on the way, all of whom are homeschooled. The couple describes themselves as deeply religious, according to local news. They both own Local Realty and have dozens…
During the 2018-2019 school year, from September 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019, the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center on Extremism documented 313 cases of white supremacist propaganda on college campuses — a 7% increase from the 292 recorded during the 2017-2018 academic year. According to ADL’s data, the increase in…
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Donald J. Trump He has been proven right. Trump’s strategy ofcultivating a sense of victimhood for lower-middle-class white people by fueling hate in other groups started (in the public consciousness) with his denying…
Question: Why is it whenever white people defend their racism, the first thing they default to is “I’m not a bigot” and the second thing is “I have friends who are black” I could scream. Answer: It’s disorienting for white people who think they really aren’t biased to be confronted…
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