With their hands raised in a gesture of surrender, Congressional staff members staged a walkout Thursday in protest of the recent killings of unarmed black...
The flagship school of the University of California system, California-Berkeley (in the Bay Area), has enjoyed a long history of being involved with, and often leading,...
*(Via USA Today) – Americans by nearly 3-1 say the white police officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man being arrested for selling cigarettes, should have faced charges from a Staten Island grand jury, a nationwide USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll finds. Nearly nine of 10 also say it would […]
*(Via MSN News) – A store was looted, a freeway was shut down and a good samaritan was hit with a hammer Sunday night during protests in Berkley and Oakland that turned violent hours after they began. The California Highway Patrol arrested eight “aggressive protesters” on California 24 after they threw rocks and bottles at […]
*The recent deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice will be the hot topic addressed by President Barack Obama today in an exclusive interview with BET Networks. BET News’ Jeff Johnson will chat with the commander-in-chief about the tragedies on “BET News Presents: A Conversation with President Barack Obama.” A portion of the […]
*Police departments nationally scrambled furiously in the aftermath of the chokehold death of Eric Garner and the non-indictment of the officer that applied the hold to publicly declare that they do not use the chokehold. They waved and cited inter-department regulation after regulation to prove that they bar the use of the hold, don’t teach […]
