A Mississippi mother is pressing criminal charges against an assistant principal at her daughter’s middle school after a video emerged allegedly showing the official manhandling the girl and kicking her. Shameka McEntyre, of DeSoto County, claims her 12-year-old daughter got in a fight with another student at Southaven Middle School on May 3 when Assistant Principal Granger Brown allegedly jumped into the fray, grabbed the girl roughly and kicked her. “All they were concerned about was getting her suspended for the fight, but when this grown man put his foot on my daughter and snatching her, t ..read more

The North Carolina senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would make it illegal again to wear a mask in public, but Democratic state Sen. Sydney Batch blasted the measure, claiming it protected the ability of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to cloak their faces during public events, but not people with health issues like herself. The bill advanced in response to heated pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the nation and would remove an exception to North Carolina’s ban on masks that was originally created during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.  This c ..read more

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is facing another lawsuit for continuing to make false claims that two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, participated in voting fraud during the 2020 presidential election when President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. The two Black election workers recently won a $148 million defamation judgment against him but have now filed a new lawsuit, seeking a court injunction that would block Giuliani from continuing to make his election-related allegations against Freeman and Moss.  UNITED STATES – JULY 10: Rudy Giuliani, former Mayo ..read more

The woman who was miraculously rescued after her truck careened off a bridge in Louisville, Kentucky, two months ago recently spoke out about the terrifying experience. National headlines covered the accident that sent Sydney Thomas’s semi-truck over the edge of the Clark Memorial Bridge on March 1. A pickup truck crashed into Thomas’ semi and took its suspension out, sending it plowing through the bridge’s guardrail. Sydney Thomas, 26, spoke to WHAS11 News about the moments she was trapped inside a semi-truck that careened over a bridge in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo: YouTube/WHAS11 News) Ha ..read more

Two Black elementary schoolchildren who spoke in front of the Denver City Council earlier this week were verbally attacked by an audience member via Zoom who called them the N-word and told them, “Go back to f–ing Africa.” The kids were part of a chaperoned group of students from Monarch Montessori School who were set to speak at a city council meeting on Monday to advocate for multiple school plans. The two young Black girls, one in fourth grade and the other in fifth grade, are part of a student leadership committee at their school. They went before the council to promote an idea to build a ..read more

Civility was in small supply Thursday night during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee after Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett’s appearance in what many deemed a racist attack. The committee was meeting to vote on holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for his failure to turn over a subpoenaed audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Hur recently concluded an investigation to determine if Biden should face criminal charges for storing classified government docum ..read more

Administrators at one high school in Virginia canceled the remainder of their varsity baseball team’s season after finding evidence supporting allegations of racist behavior on the team. According to WTKR, the probe started last month shortly after the mother of a student at Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach posted videos on social media stating that members of the team repeatedly called her son the N-word and other racial slurs. “I am absolutely disgusted,” the mother said in one of the videos, according to the local outlet. Baseball team coach and players raising gloves for high-five ..read more

A Black Canadian man spoke out about a recent encounter with police in which he said he was violently arrested after they saw him entering his father’s BMW. CBC reported that Khadafi Keenan Fagan-Pierre was leaving his mother’s home on the morning of April 14 and preparing to use his dad’s car when two officers spotted him. “Is this your car?” one cop asked after approaching Fagan-Pierre. Khadafi Keenan Fagan-Pierre claims he was racially profiled and violently arrested by police in Gatineau, Quebec on April 14, 2024. (Photo: Facebook/Khadafi Fagan-Pierre) “No,” Fagan-Pierre responded. “Well ..read more

A grieving grandfather in Norfolk, Virginia, whose son and daughter-in-law are facing murder charges in the death of their newborn baby, claims he warned hospital staff not to release the infant into the couple’s care, alleging they were unfit to be parents. Hilary Johnson Sr. said his pleas were ignored, leading to the heartbreaking loss of his first grandchild, I’ijayah Johnson, who was born on April 25 at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital but died nine days after leaving the facility with her homeless parents. “I told them I fear for her life,” Johnson Sr. said, according to reports, bl ..read more

Questions have been raised about the 1991 double murder conviction of Allen Porter, who is serving a 47-years-to-life prison sentence after a wrongful conviction claim was filed in late April.  Claims have surfaced that Vanessa Thomas, a key witness in the case, was coerced into falsely pointing to Porter as the murderer of two individuals due to an undisclosed deal with prosecutors, according to a report from the New York Daily News. Porter claims he was wrongly convicted in the 1991 killing of a rival drug dealer and his girlfriend. But now Porter’s legal team has filed a motion to over ..read more