An offhand comment made by an employee inside a Southern California grocery store Thursday led to a violent arrest and accusations of excessive force by police. Travon Attison, who police say is on parole and has an extensive criminal record, was arrested and charged with felony assault and resisting an officer. The video, shot by...
For more than a century, the state of Florida operated a reform school for boys that led to the deaths of almost 100 boys, mostly Black, many of who were then buried in unmarked graves on school grounds. The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in the Panhandle town of Marianna also left hundreds of...
When Jason Fauntleroy bought a vacant lot at a sheriff’s office auction for $5,000 three years ago, it came with an unexpected bonus: the purchase also included the entire adjacent street, Bloomfield Court, a cul-de-sac with several other houses. Now, the city of Trenton, Ohio, is trying to reclaim his property through eminent domain in...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk continued his recent trend of incendiary musings Friday morning when he shared a post comparing diversity, equity and inclusion programs to laws designed to disenfranchise Black Americans. “DEI is racism and sexism,” wrote Musk, replying to a post on X — the social media platform he owns — that read “Jim...
George Henderson, a 61-year-old Black man with Alzheimer’s disease, disappeared from his Tennessee home early last month, prompting local police to issue a Silver Alert for the man who spent almost three decades in the U.S. Army where he served in six overseas deployments, receiving head injuries and PTSD as a result. The retired master...
