A new comedy series from Hulu snatches a buzzword of our times—”Woke”—tackling racial inequality that’s partly inspired by police harassment. Lamorne Morris (“New Girl”) stars as a Keef Knight, a self-identified non-controversial black cartoonist on ...
Unconfirmed reports have linked the shooter to a militia group with videos shared on social media showing him walking by police after the shooting. In the third night of uprising and protest following the police ...
The BBC unveiled the first trailer for Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove” — on the eve of the 50th anniversary of London’s Mangrove protest, when black people demonstrated against police harassment. On August 9, 1970, 150 protesters ...
Citizen Truth spoke to activists and citizens there as well as organizers in Europe about why these demonstrations are important and what needs to change. America is experiencing the global coronavirus at a more extreme ...
The list is growing: several long-running TV shows or movies recently announced major changes or cancellations in their programming, in the wake of the cultural unrest in America. Even cartoon characters were not spared. Earlier ...
The tragic death of George Floyd has sparked controversial protests. Many celebrities are helping out by raising money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that provides funds to protestors who have been arrested and ...
CNN partnered with “Sesame Street” for a special town hall about racism, giving both kids and parents an opportunity to explore the current debate on inequality and how it affects everyone in society. This is ...
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York is now reviewing the investigation of the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X that could potentially open a re-investigation of the case. The new documentary ...
“I just hope [the film] opens their eyes. We’re not beyond reality, where everybody is suddenly going to lead the charge, but as long as it’s out there and everybody can rally around it, to ...
“I’m of the thought that you can entertain and create change. It’s what Lena and I like to call ‘protest art.’ I hope that it brings value to black life and the black experience. If ...
How much does your city make from traffic tickets and other fines? (By Akheil Singla, The Conversation) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly ...
“This case has rained violence upon every person of color even remotely involved.” The New York Police Department fired the officer whose chokehold led to the death of Eric Garner on Monday, closing a five-year ...
An Ohio man was charged on Friday after writing on Facebook that Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “should be shot.” “She should be shot. Can’t fire me, my employer would load the gun for me,” the ...
In an effort to quell the record-breaking protests across Hong Kong, China released a video threatening violence against protestors who refuse to “fall back.” In late July Citizen Truth reported the following concerning the continuous ...
The characteristics of police officers who shoot civilians closely reflect the pool of all police officers. (David Johnson and Joseph Cesario, The Conversation) In the debate over fatal police shootings of minority citizens, one theme ...
“There is no question that Wester’s crimes were deliberate and that his actions put innocent people in jail.” Jackson County, Florida Deputy Zach Wester was arrested Wednesday on 52 counts including racketeering, false imprisonment, fabricating ...
“I can’t think of any other investigation that we’ve undertaken, at least in my 30 years, with that many people taken off the street at one time.” After thousands of law enforcement officers allegedly posted ...
“They admitted their guilt. If you look at [former prosecutor] Linda Fairstein, you look at some of the prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case, so we’ll leave it at ...
“How could you not do it, living in a place where people are dying by the dozens around you every year. How could you not respond?” The controversial and high-profile case of a humanitarian aid ...
Oprah Winfrey highlights When They See Us, the story of the Central Park Five, with airings on Netflix and OWN. The new Netflix drama miniseries When They See Us, released last month, quickly drew national ...
After being detained for three weeks, a Philadelphia man just barely escaped being deported to Jamaica in a case of mistaken identity. ICE almost deported Peter Sean Brown, a 50-year-old American citizen born in Philadelphia to ...
Last Thursday 26-year-old Botham Jean, a black man, was shot and killed in his own home by a white female Dallas police officer who claims she mistook his apartment for hers after getting home late ...
A community is outraged and a family is in mourning after a Dallas off-duty police officer entered a black man’s home and killed him on Thursday night. The unnamed female office claims she entered the ...
Alexander Williams Jr. a retired U.S District Judge has been tasked with leading an investigation panel that will look into the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) corruption scandal. The investigation comes at a ...
In a rare win for victims of police shootings, a jury sentenced former Texas Police Officer Roy Oliver to 15 years for the shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Oliver, 38, was convicted for shooting 15-year-old ...
(Stop The Drug War) Last week, the good citizens of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie County got a rude shock. The county’s top lawmen, Sheriff William Brewer, was at the courthouse, which was not unusual. This time, though, ...
Hundreds of inmates in various U.S. prisons have gone on strike, protesting what they’ve labeled “modern-day slavery.” Solidarity and Support In what may pass as the largest strike in recent history, the 2018 U.S. prison ...
Debuting this week on Hulu and in theaters is Crime + Punishment, an award-winning documentary that goes behind the scenes and undercover to expose discriminatory policing practices, intimidation and corruption within the New York Police ...
Our inaugural episode of Good Cop/Bad Cop – because everyone knows there are good cops and bad cops but not everyone knows what’s good cop behavior and what’s bad cop behavior. On our first episode ...
In a lawsuit filed last week, a 76-year-old legally deaf and disabled women alleges officers violently arrested, kneed and handcuffed her to the point of passing out, all for jaywalking. The incident took place in July ...
Race and police brutality are linked together again in Investigation Discovery’s new two-hour documentary “Sugar Town”, recounting a fatal incident in New Iberia, Louisiana. On March 2nd, 2014, 22-year-old Victor White III, an African-American resident of ...
Any revenue formally generated from the civil asset forfeiture program in Albuquerque, New Mexico is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge James O. Browning ruled civil asset forfeiture violates residents’ rights to ...
The allegations against the Southwest Key youth care worker are the latest in a series of serious accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters. This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual ...
The FBI wants to know what your tattoos mean. The federal security agency is trying to identify the meanings of tattoos and how the tattoos “map out people’s relationships and identify their beliefs” as the ...
A public approval tool designed to measure police performance at the local and state levels was recently launched in New York. Sentiment Meter, as it is called, is developed by Brooklyn-based startup Elucd, and after ...
A young New Yorker, Mariah Charles, was stopped by police on her way to school and violently arrested for not carrying an ID. Her case is now in court, and Charles is opting to go ...
A homeless man identified as Kevin Straw was beaten aggressively during an arrest by Oregon law enforcement on Monday, prompting A.C.L.U. Oregon to condemn officer behavior and call for an incident investigation. Four Marion County ...
(ANTIMEDIA, by James Holbrooks) Texas — Last December, Rakem Balogun and his 15-year-old son were startled awake when a team of heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their apartment in Dallas, Texas. Wearing nothing but their underwear, Balogun and ...
In March, Sacramento police officers shot and killed 22-year old Stephon Clark, who was holding nothing other than a cell phone. The cops thought he had a gun, and he was running through the neighborhood ...
Consciously swiping the infamous catchphrase “This is America” for the title of his song, singer-actor Donald Glover debuted the music video for his new tune this past Saturday, in conjunction with hosting NBC’s “Saturday Night ...
The US Justice Department is funneling $40 million into local police departments to increase rape kit testing and fund the expansion of a national violent crimes database. Through the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), the ...
The two black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks on April 12 have reached a settlement with the city for a symbolic one dollar each. Their settlement, announced Wednesday, also included a pledge from city ...
The comedy-drama film Blindspotting made its premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival and has been earning raves for its simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking look at gentrification and police brutality in Oakland, California. Stars and ...
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and while there are many disturbing factors that have contributed to this trend, one of the least-discussed is the complex system of parole and ...
“People’s human rights do not end when they enter the walls of a prison.” (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) Ending a practice described by medical experts as “barbaric,” the director of North Carolina’s state prisons said ...
Seven Seconds is a new Netflix drama series centering around the hit-and-run of a black teenager from Jersey City by a police officer who attempted to cover up his crime. According to executive producer Veena ...
C.J. Brown wrote four times as many pedestrian tickets as any other officer in Jacksonville over the last five years. Most of them went to blacks. His boss says he’s just “good at his job.” ...
LAPD Scandal: Seven teens in the LA cadet program arrested for stealing LAPD equipment. An officer involved is charged with statutory rape of a cadet. L.A.P.D. arrested A 31-year old Los Angeles police officer last ...
On June 8th, a New York corrections officer at Rikers Island admitted to sexual assault of a female inmate but thanks to a plea deal he will receive no jail time. As part of the ...
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