The Biden administration is working on making treatments for sickle cell more accessible for Americans most impacted by the disease. Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized breakthrough gene therapies to tackle the disease that disproportionately affects people of color, more specifically Black Americans. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sickle cell happens in...
More than 50 cases tied to the former California cop who was exposed for sending racist text messages could potentially be thrown out, officials say. Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen has been looking into the cases that Mark McNamara was involved in, NBC Bay Area reported. Last year, it was revealed that McNamara sent...
A Texas woman was shot multiple times by Harris County sheriff’s deputies while in her friend’s home earlier this month. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump likened it to the events that led to the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020. His client, 28-year-old Eboni Pouncy, was reportedly hit five times in the early hours of Feb. 3...
Following rulings in Colorado and Maine disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the ballot under a Fourteenth Amendment clause, Arizona House Republicans are pushing a bold initiative to designate Trump as the winner of the 2024 presidential election regardless of voters’ decision. State lawmakers in the GOP-controlled Legislature are pushing it as a resolution, not...
The former white Louisiana state police troopers who were recorded beating a Black driver in 2020 following a high-speed chase and who later wrote a series of text messages bragging about the violent arrests will no longer face charges. The state’s prosecutors have dropped the charges against Dakota DeMoss and Jacob Brown, with plans to...
Rachel Dolezal, infamously known for pretending to be a Black woman, has been fired from her job after her OnlyFans account came to light. Dolezal — who also goes by Nkechi Diallo — served as an after-school teacher for the Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson, Arizona. In a statement to KVOA, the district’s director...