Former Olympic snowboarder and YouTube star Trevor Jacob was sentenced to six months in a federal prison after he admitted to intentionally crashing his airplane in Southern California. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, Jacob crashed his single-engine Taylorcraft BL-65 plane on Nov. 24, 2021, while streaming on YouTube in an attempt...
A 23-year-old Atlanta man received five years probation Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to the arson fire that destroyed the Wendy’s restaurant that was the site of the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in 2020. Chisom Kingston, who admitted in Fulton County Court to burning down the business, will not serve time in jail...
A Black Pasadena, California, cop is suing her department after she claims she experienced retaliation and discrimination while on the job. The lawsuit filed by Taisyn Crutchfield outlined an encounter that happened after the January fatal shooting of Charles Towns, a Black man, involving deputies from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, CBS News and KTTV reported. Taisyn...
A Utah school district recently resolved a case with the Department of Justice, acknowledging racial discrimination and harassment. The settlement comes years after evidence indicated that Black students were not adequately safeguarded by school officials when facing race-based targeting from their white peers. The Davis School District, which reached the settlement with the Justice Department,...
A federal appeals court decision that effectively weakens a key section of the Voting Rights Act for Black and Brown voters in several states and could dampen their power ahead of the 2024 presidential election. In a 2-1 decision on Nov. 21, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals restricted part of the Section 2 provision...