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2015 marks the 13th anniversary of Tom Joyner’s Allstate Tom Joyner Family Reunion in Kissimmee, Florida. Every year the event brings in thousands of people from across the country for a huge celebration of family, friends and fellowship. The Orlando Sentinel sat down with Tom Joyner to discuss the hugely successful event and the impact […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas police officer has been extradited from Indonesia and charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of his pregnant girlfriend near Austin. VonTrey Jamal Clark arrived at an Austin airport late Wednesday and was booked into the Bastrop County Jail, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Clark, 32, is charged […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The white man accused of killing nine black churchgoers during a Bible study will face the death penalty, according to court documents filed Thursday. The documents said prosecutors would pursue the death penalty against Dylann Roof, 21, because more than two people were killed, and that others’ lives were put at […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An educational video game has been edited following a social media backlash over a scene depicting slaves being packed into a ship. The creators of “Playing History: Slave Trade” removed a level Monday which featured black slave characters being dropped into a ship similar to the video game “Tetris.” “Apologies to […]
The Black Panther Party For Self-Defense was a significant social justice group in the 1960’s that was a important precursor to the anti-police brutality movement today. The Panthers believed in self-determination for Black communities and in defending themselves against the police by carrying legal weapons and monitoring police activity in the neighborhoods. Destroyed internally by […]
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Five members of the women’s soccer team at a private Christian university in Washington state were suspended for one match Wednesday after a social media post surfaced showing them dressed in blackface and afro wigs. Whitworth University, a liberal arts school in Spokane, said in a statement the players were suspended […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a Justice Department report that warns such problems could happen in other places roiled by mistrust between law enforcement and the community. The report fleshes out a draft version made public […]
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has basically suggested that the #BlackLivesMatter movement take it down a notch, and respond to injustice more like the African Americans in her state following the racially-motivated Charleston church massacre. In a broad address about race relations, Haley on Wednesday conceded that “black lives do matter,” but accused the movement of using […]
Olivia Allen, not yet even a middle schooler, is spreading her #blackgirlmagic all over her neighborhood as a budding philanthropist and role model for her peers.
Three police officers are on administrative leave after a botched investigation led to the shooting of an unarmed man and the killing of his dog. Officers in Atlanta’s DeKalb County, responded to a report of a ‘suspicious individual’ but went to the wrong house. When they found an unlocked screen and back door, they entered the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of an unarmed black man shot to death by a white former police chief of a small South Carolina town reluctantly accepted a plea deal on a lesser charge that will give him a year of home detention, but no prison time. Former chief Richard Combs didn’t like the […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge on Wednesday refused to dismiss charges against six police officers accused in the death in April of a black man who was in their custody. During a pretrial hearing, Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams denied a defense motion for the charges to be dropped against the officers in the […]
