Tag: Black man
Court asked to void Verdict Against ex-cop in Floyd’s Murder
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An attorney for Derek Chauvin asked an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former...
Man Tried 4 Times for Killing set Free after Charges Dropped
By LEA SKENE, Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s new top prosecutor dropped all charges Friday against a Black man who stood trial four times...
How the Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s Words Enables More, not Less, Racial...
By Hajar Yazdiha, The Conversation
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Not all Insurrections are Equal – for Enslaved Americans, it was the Only Option
By Deion Scott Hawkins, The Conversation
For most Americans, Jan. 6 was once an ordinary, ho-hum day.
That changed in 2021 when millions of television viewers...
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, ‘Ellen’ show’s dancing DJ, dies at 40
By Nardos Haile, Associated Press
Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the longtime and beloved dancing DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a former contestant on “So...