In Georgia, Republican Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday declared a state of emergency in response to mass protests that erupted after the police killing of environmental defender Manuel Terán in Atlanta last week. The declaration gives Kemp the power to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops over the next 15 days to quell the…
MIAMI — Florida will not allow a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies to be offered in its high schools, stating that the course is not “historically accurate” and violates state law. In a letter last week, the Florida Department of Education informed the College Board, which administers A.P. exams, that it would…
MEMPHIS — For the mother of Tyre Nichols, the fact that five Memphis police officers charged with beating her son are also Black has compounded her sorrow as she tries to cope with his violent death at age 29. “It makes it even harder to swallow,” RowVaughn Wells said in an interview last week, “because…
The authorities in Albuquerque said that Solomon Peña, who lost his bid for a State House seat in November, was behind a series of recent shootings targeting Democratic elected officials. Solomon Peña was taken into custody by Albuquerque Police officers.Credit…Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press The authorities in Albuquerque said on Monday that…
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) — A 56-year-old woman has been charged after an 18-year-old Indiana University student repeatedly was stabbed in the head on a public bus in an attack the school says was because the victim is Asian. The victim told investigators she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a…
Tyre Nichols, 29, was beaten by Memphis police officers for three minutes on Jan. 7 after the officers had stopped him for reckless driving, lawyers for his family said on Monday. The stop escalated into a violent confrontation that ended with Mr. Nichols hospitalized in critical condition. Three days later, he died. The circumstances of…
On Wednesday, we received news of what may have been the first police killing of a climate activist in the U.S. when Atlanta police shot and killed Manuel “Tortuguita” Paéz Terán. Tortuguíta was a beloved forest defender fighting to #StopCopCity, the plan to bulldoze Weelaunee Forest to build a police training facility. Activists in Atlanta…
WASHINGTON — Thousands of anti-abortion activists convened on the National Mall on Friday for the March for Life, the rally held every January since 1974 to protest Roe v. Wade. This year, for the first time, they were there to celebrate its demise. And with Roe defeated, the movement’s veteran leaders stressed it was an…
WAYNESBORO — Virginia Organizing, Embrace Community Center and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Waynesboro will hold a vigil on Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. outside the Embrace Community Center. The vigil will be part of a coordinated network of actions happening across the state organized by the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, according to…
A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died hours after Los Angeles police repeatedly used a Taser on him and restrained him in the middle of the street following a traffic accident, according to body-camera footage released by authorities Wednesday The death of Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher and father visiting…
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT Ignoring calls from the community to focus on achievement gaps, the Madison County School Board approved banning 21 books from the Madison County High School Library at its first meeting of the calendar year on January 12. Voting for the banning…
‘I don’t want my children to live in the world my grandparents faced’: Antifa in their own words “Antifascists generally, and Antifa in particular, recognise that the battles – including physical ones – to defend human rights and human lives are taking place right now, not in some science fiction future ‘when the revolution comes’,”…
LÜTZERATH, Germany — From the roof of a green farm building, an activist dressed in black made an obscene gesture at police forces below before scooping debris out of the gutter and hurling it toward them. “What’s a bit of dirt when there’s a climate crisis?” his companion yelled as she rappelled out a high…
The renowned academic, widely considered the founder of modern linguistics, says anti-fascists have instigated the use of violence in wholly reprehensible ways. Antifa, shorthand for the anti-fascist movement, refers to a loose decentralised coalition of groups which oppose the far right via grassroots action rather than depending on the police or the state. While the…
A look at six loose networks of faith leaders and followers who fit some part of the definition “Christian nationalist” once summoned images of fiery extremists — stark racists concerned with keeping immigrants out of the United States, or politicians who argued that the Ten Commandments ought to coexist in law with the Constitution. Then…
The percentage of Americans who believe in a number of antisemitic tropes has spiked in the past three years, according to the results of an Anti-Defamation League survey released Thursday. ADL leaders say years of antisemitic rhetoric from former President Donald Trump, along with emboldened violent extremism and lax social media policies are to blame….
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FROM ACLU: BREAKING: The 15-week abortion ban was just introduced Wednesday. The bill number is HB2278, sponsored by Del. Byron. It’s go time. We must do EVERYTHING we can to keep this bill from moving forward. More actions to come SOON. Sign up for our email to be notified! https://action.aclu.org/…/aclu-virginia-get-updates… https://www.facebook.com/acluofvirginia/www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyaliQP
RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests circled up in the morning chill. Some clutched cups of Starbucks coffee, a last comfort before beginning the hard work of dismantling a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill in the middle of an intersection. As a small group of Confederate heritage defenders assembled nearby — at least…
Albemarle School Administrator Lawsuit Heard in U.S. District Court Here comes Pete The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia heard arguments on December 15 in the case of Emily Mais v. Albemarle County School Board, originally filed in April of this year. Mais is a former assistant principal at Agnor-Hurt Elementary School…
CAPE TOWN — A violent attack by a group of white men on two Black teenagers at a resort pool in South Africa has sparked widespread outrage, reviving images from the ugly days of apartheid and serving as a stinging reminder of the country’s unresolved racial tensions. Cellphone footage of the assault — which the…
When he was only 20 years old, photographer Stephen Shames began documenting the Black Panther Party. At the time, he was a college student at UC Berkeley. Despite this, or maybe because of it, he was able to gain the trust of people in the Black Panthers, and they allowed him into their lives to…
Transcript: FROM DEMOCRACY NOW: We speak with Michael Mable about the life and legacy of his brother, Black Panther activist and political prisoner Albert Woodfox. Woodfox spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prison guard. Woodfox’s conviction was overturned for the third…
PETE –WE NEED YOU!!!! We especially need you to lead us in singing the refrain from this classic: A federal judge has cut by millions of dollars the damages that some of the nation’s most prominent white supremacists and hate groups owe for their role in 2017’s deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville Judge…
A restaurant in Richmond canceled a reservation for a private event being held by a conservative Christian organization, citing the group’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion rights. “We have always refused service to anyone for making our staff uncomfortable or unsafe and this was the driving force behind our decision,” read an Instagram post…
Tensions over the children’s event escalated when two protesters were arrested for trespassing. Protesters descended on the home and the office of a gay member of the New York City Council, vandalizing the walls with homophobic graffiti and attacking one of his neighbors, over his support for Drag Story Hour events at local libraries. The…
How misinformation about ‘Lawn Boy,’ a book that was never intended for children, made it the second-most contested book last year Brandi Burkman arrived at the Texas school board meeting with a printed speech, a plastic-sheeted library book and a swelling sense of fury. The 43-year-old mother of three approached the podium at the Sept….
Reporters for TPM obtained text messages between Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (formerly a Tea Party congressman) and 34 Republican members of Congress advocating stragegies to end democracy in America by keeping Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election. For example, South Carolina’s Republican Congressman Ralph Norman texted Meadows: “Mark, in seeing…
The United States Military Academy at West Point will start removing Confederate symbols from its campus, including taking down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from the academy’s library, officials said. Over the next year, West Point will also remove, relocate, modify or rename busts, memorials, streets and buildings…
A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper, an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence in a country already experiencing a sharp increase in antisemitism. Leaders of the Jewish community in the U.S. and extremism experts have…
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward,…
MA: Andrea Campbell will be the state’s first Black woman Attorney General. MD: Governor-elect Wes Moore will be the first Black governor in MD history. MN: Leigh Finke becomes the state’s first transgender legislator. MN: Alicia Kozlowski (Ojibwe) will be the first non-binary person to serve in the state legislature. NH: James Roesener is elected to the NH House, becoming the…
Hundreds of coal miners in Brookwood, Ala., reached a milestone. They’ve spent 20 months on strike. That’s well past the six-week average for strikes, according to Bloomberg Law. The miners believe it’s the longest strike in Alabama’s history. They have continued demanding their employer, Warrior Met Coal, restore the pay and benefits that were cut…
Trump has said that he did not know Fuentes before the dinner at Mar-a-Lago and was not aware of his reputation, but many people, including late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, have pointed out that Ye has also spread antisemitic rhetoric. The dinner has prompted calls from some of Trump’s former allies and…
The largest higher education strike in U.S. history has entered an effort to secure livable wages, more child care benefits, expanded family leave and other demands. Some 48,000 academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses went on strike, including teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows. We speak with a…
As our nation grapples with the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade, it’s more important than ever that Virginia uphold and expand protections for abortion access in our Commonwealth. Every person should be able to decide for themselves when, if, and how to become a parent. Ending a pregnancy is a deeply personal and individual…
Barbara Love, a feminist activist who fought for gay rights and for lesbians to have a place — and a voice — in the women’s movement in its early days, died on Nov. 13 in the Bronx. She was 85. The cause was complications of leukemia and Parkinson’s disease, said her wife, Donna Smith. Raised…
Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said. Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a…
A trial highlighted how Ruch fatally fired his weapon within six seconds of arriving on the scene in the Ogontz section of Philly, where Plowden had crashed his car while being pursued in a high-speed chase by law enforcement. Prosecutors said Plowden was in the process of surrendering to the PPD when Ruch shot and…
Sophie Kloppenburg, 17, of Mount Vernon, Indiana, helped give seven Black men who were victims of the state’s largest recorded lynching a memorial 144 years after their gruesome fates. Kloppenburg became curious about the men lynched in a town where discussions on race are scarce. Her persistence paid off with a formal memorial which now…
In the months before the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, researchers at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project noticed that the extremist group the Proud Boys had become more heavily intertwined with Donald Trump’s reelection bid. Members of the group had increasingly appeared at rallies explicitly focused on Trump’s…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered at Harvard University and near Chinese consulates in New York and Chicago to support protesters who have called for that country’s leader to step down amid severe anti-virus restrictions in the biggest demonstrations against the government in Beijing in decades. About 50 protesters, mostly students at the…
As other kids in Austin recovered from trick-or-treating on Halloween last year, Sarah Adelman worried about white supremacists, her mom and their synagogue. After a series of antisemitic incidents around Central Texas, someone set fire to Congregation Beth Israel, where Sarah’s mother, Lori, is a leader. “It made me sad and really scared,” 10-year-old Sarah…
A white West Virginia couple has been charged with two hate crimes after authorities say they terrorized two Black people in a matter of minutes. The two are accused of assaulting one African-American man, shooting him in the chest with a paintball gun, and threatening to shoot another person … this time with a real…
Images that capture joy and pride — and speak to the true American spirit The Washington Post is closing its Sunday magazine — one of the very few outlets in the US where captivating, truth-telling, inspiring photos appear. You can see the entire series of “The Real Americana” at https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/robin-givhan-american-flag-race-photography/?itid=hp_magazine_p016_f001
Rockland/Westchester Journal News https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.547.0_en.html#goog_2109424138 NYACK – Activist and educator Angela Davis came to Rockland after all Thursday evening, meeting with North Rockland teens − and hundreds of others − after a planned school-sponsored event unraveled amid criticism that she was too “radical” for the county and its children. The event finally took place at Pilgrim…
A Black detective who used to work for the Trenton Police Department has reached a settlement on a racial discrimination lawsuit with the city after his civil rights were violated on the job. Members of the force strung up a toy monkey in his area, evoking an age-old racist trope that associates people of African…
In 2003, Rick Jahnkow wrote a critique of the U.S. anti-war movement that included a reference to the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day.” For those of you unfamiliar with the film, it’s about a TV reporter, played by Bill Murray, who is sent to cover the traditional observance of a groundhog’s emergence from its burrow on…
Nearly 160 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the order that freed slaves in states rebelling against the Union during the Civil War, Louisiana voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have abolished the use of involuntary labor as a form of punishment. Similar amendments were proposed in four other states, passing in Alabama, Tennessee, and…
A jury in federal court in Washington convicted Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right militia, and one of his subordinates for a plot to keep Donald Trump in power. By Alan Feuer and Zach Montague Nov. 29, 2022 Sign Up for On Politics, for Times subscribers only. A Times reader’s guide to the political news…
Why it’s important to know more about Nick Fuentes. Donald Trump claimed he did not know who Nick Fuentes was before sitting down to dinner with him and other guests at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week. But Fuentes is certainly well known to the groups that track racist and antisemitic trends in American society. While…
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with an alleged assault on an Asian American student at the University of Cincinnati last year. Darrin Johnson, 26, of Cincinnati was arrested following his indictment by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney’s office in the southern district…
It’s been two years since Chris Kennedy received a racist letter demanding that he remove the Seven-foot inflatable Black Santa on his front lawn in North Little Rock. “Please remove your negro Santa Claus yard decoration,” the letter, signed by an anonymous “Santa Claus,” read. “You should try not to deceive children into believing that…
In Pennsylvania, immigrant rights advocates welcomed a second bus of asylum seekers to Philadelphia sent by Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott says Texas has bused a total of over 13,000 asylum seekers to “sanctuary cities,” including Washington, D.C., and New York. Since Abbott was reelected in November, he’s intensified his hate speech against immigrants,…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Virginia man is accused of planting a pipe bomb at a battlefield while he was a Civil War re-enactor in 2017, prosecutors said. Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, of Winchester, pleaded not guilty to 15 indictments, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia….
HONOLULU (AP) — A jury found two Native Hawaiian men guilty of a hate crime for the 2014 beating of a white man who was fixing up a house he purchased in their remote Maui neighborhood. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright ordered Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. detained pending sentencing scheduled for March…
NEW YORK — Kyrie Irving has returned to the Brooklyn Nets and apologized to anyone who felt threatened or hurt when he posted a link to a documentary with antisemitic material. Irving was suspended by the team on Nov. 3 hours after he refused to say he had no antisemitic beliefs when meeting with reporters…
After shifting to online programming during the pandemic and seeing its audience explode, with viewers in 200 countries as well as all 50 states, the 92nd Street Y wanted to make clear where it was. In May it changed its name to the 92nd Street Y, New York, or simply 92NY on its redesigned logo….
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Summer Boismier was living her childhood dream. She grew up a bookworm, became a high school English teacher, and filled both her classroom and home with her favorite literature. She taught her students: “Stories are what is fundamental about the human experience. We all have them.” Boismier especially loves the fantasy…
Nike suspended its relationship with Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving, the latest action taken against the basketball star after he tweeted a link to an antisemitic film.. Nike’s move includes canceling the launch of the latest model of Irving’s shoe line,which was scheduled for release this month. “At Nike, we believe there is no place…
In New York City, the second-largest Jewish population center in the world, Nets fans are appalled and frightened. Jordana Levine and her family of longtime Nets fans were captivated at a game on Saturday night, as guard Kyrie Irving scored basket after basket on an explosive night. Ms. Levine turned to her 9-year-old daughter. “Boy,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 14, 2022 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – At approximately 10:30 a.m. on November 14th, 2022, the Charlottesville Police Department (CPD), while working in conjunction with the University of Virginia Police Department, was made aware of several concerning and threatening social media posts. CPD opened an investigation into the postings and the individual…
Around 2:30 a.m., Sarah Swain and Brian Hunter were jolted awake by a phone call from the fire department. The doughnut shop the couple owns in Tulsa had been targeted — again — just two weeks after they’d hosted an art exhibit featuring drag queens. Early that morning, a person in a dark hoodie, red…
Members of Parliament gave unanimous consent in favour of a motion calling on the federal government to recognize Canada’s residential schools as genocide. Leah Gazan, the NDP member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre, introduced the motion following Question Period Thursday afternoon. Gazan brought forward a similar motion in June last year, but it did not receive unanimous consent. “Today I lift…
A week after the release of a video of a Black man with special needs being assaulted went viral, the streets of Milwaukee were the scenes of several demonstrations aimed at bringing justice to the victim. Community stakeholders protested the incident, asking first why the aggressor targeted the victim, and now wanting answers regarding what…
A former Kansas City, Missouri, police detective who fatally shot a Black man as he was backing into his driveway in 2019 has filed an appeal to his conviction. Eric DeValkenaere is the first white law enforcement officer in Kansas City to be charged and convicted for killing a Black person in over eight decades….
Stand back and stand by. Proud Boys may be coming to a park near you. On a crisp Saturday morning, the far-right nationalist group was not aiming to overthrow the result of a presidential election with a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. Their goal was to intimidate a small contingent of parents who had…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning synagogues in New Jersey of a broad security threat after getting what it called “credible information” about an increased level of risk. “We ask at this time that you take all security precautions to protect your community and facility,” the F.B.I.’s Newark office wrote on Twitter “We will…
For those who feel overwhelmed by the continually growing threat from the viperous fascists, here is an idea. It is starting in New York city and spreading. When will YOU organize your local event? As Thom Hartmann says “Democracy is not a spectator sport.” ABORTION WRITES!, a community writing workshop/reading/fundraiser to support reproductive rights. THIS SUNDAY. …
REMINDER TO ALL WHO DIDN’T VOTE. YOU GOT WHAT YOU CHOSE. CHUCK BERRY WARNED YOU. Deep down in Louisiana close to New OrleansWay back up in the woods among the evergreensThere stood a log cabin made of earth and woodWhere lived a country boy named Bobby B. GoodeWho never ever learned to read or write…
Foe those of you who, like me, “have issues” with electoral politics, you have to set them aside and follow Malcom X: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY Here are some ideas: Help get out the vote GOTV Weekend is here! Find a GOTV event near you to help candidates and causes win on Tuesday. Sat, Nov…
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Sen. Chase plans to introduce bill to ban abortion In a video posted to Facebook on Sunday, Chase said she will introduce the “Life Begins At Conception Act.” The bill mirrors the “Life At Conception Act” that Rep. Bob Good, R-5th, has co-sponsored at the federal level….
Following is from a special edition of Activists Watch: I very rarely vote in federal elections. It is next to never that I vote in legislative elections. I did start to vote regularly against the Bushes. Before that, the last time I voted was for Gene McCarthy. Next Tuesday, I definitely will vote. Against the…
It’s Critical to See what a Fascist America Looks Like, Before it’s Too Late This election may well seal or determine the fate and future of democracy in the United States and, by extension, most of the rest of the world “American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States…
Five U.S. states will vote this November on whether to eliminate languagein their state constitutions that allows slavery as punishment in prisons, an exception written into the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery more than 150 years ago.. Experts say the bills — which are on the ballot in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon and Vermont —…
tIn New York City, climate and housing activists shut down Park Avenue for the fifth straight day Saturday, the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, to demand banks and major corporations stop funding fossil fuels, and that Governor Hochul tax wealthy New Yorkers to enact a Green New Deal. Dozens of activists were arrested over the…
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration compiled extensive intelligence dossiers on people who were arrested, even for minor offenses, during Black Lives Matter protests in Oregon. Initial drafts of the dossiers even included friends of the subjects as well as their interests, but those were later removed…
An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network, raising fears that his pledge of unrestricted free speech could fuel a new wave of online hate. The flood of racist posts was among the most prominent signs…
The university’s president said that the event had been canceled in the interests of public safety, after a peaceful protest against it turned violent.Pennsylvania State University canceled a planned comedy event on Monday that was to be co-hosted by the founder of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, after a demonstration against the speakers turned…
VENICE, Fla. (AP) — It was less than three weeks before the Sarasota County, Florida, school board election when the former White House national security adviser weighed in on the local political race. “These ‘woke’ members need to be defeated in detail this upcoming election,” Michael Flynn posted on Telegram on Aug. 6. “Our children’s…
Many Proud Boys attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. They’ve been designated a terrorist organization by the governments of Canada and New Zealand and labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit legal advocacy group. Hoel and other Sarasota Proud Boys have taken Flynn’s presence…
Footage posted online from Cox’s primary victory party in July shows the exchange, but it was removed after The Post contacted the Cox campaign. He said in a statement he has no affiliation with people who stormed the capitol on Jan. 6. As Del. Dan Cox (R-Frederick) worked the crowd at his primary victory…
Antisemitic graffiti was found at a UC Davis residence hall, according to officials. It’s one of several recent racist incidents found around Northern California campuses including Sac State and American River College. A swastika drawing was found in Alder Hall, which is for first-year students, and was immediately removed, the chancellor said in a release….
As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing collection of conservative political action groups is targeting its efforts closer to home: at local school boards. Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms,…
Federal prosecutors in Florida accused two brothers of committing a hate crime against a Black man leaving a Family Dollar earlier in the month. The pair attacked the man, hitting them with their fists and an ax handle as they peppered him with racial slurs. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, Robert Lashley, one of the men…
Spotify has come under fire in the past for not stamping out extremist content and hate speech. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters/Illustration) Music-streaming giant Spotify says it prohibits content that “promotes or supports terrorism or violent extremism,” but an investigation by a civil rights group found at least 40 white supremacist artists on the platform. The report adds…
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Jesús Iván Sepúlveda Martínez started his fateful journey to find work in the United States in his father’s car before catching a bus from Ceballos, Mexico, to the border. The 22-year-old soon slipped into Texas and, with a group of about a dozen migrants, began traversing the parched landscape east of…
PATASKALA, Ohio — Some people in a Pataskala neighborhood are outraged after racist flyers promoting white supremacy were found on their driveways. 10TV spoke with Larry Davis, who’s lived on International Drive since 1972. Davis said he found a flyer in a bag.. “It struck me as what do we want this kind of stuff…
Last year, news broke that the city of Philadelphia and local universities had mishandled the remains of people who were killed during the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. An investigation into why that happened has opened old wounds, and it leaves many questions unanswered. From member station WHYY, here’s Kenny Cooper. KENNY COOPER, BYLINE: It…
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, Stinnette was riding in the passenger seat with Williams when the two were pulled over by a different officer. As that officer started to interrogate the couple, Williams panicked and drove off. The officer called for backup and Salinas answered the call. In a statement, the LCSAO said while speeding off the…
OKLAHOMA CITY — The caller had news but warned LaVonne Harris not to get her hopes up. Harris’s son, 33-year-old Nathan Smith, had vanished along a dirt road in Oklahoma one freezing night more than two years earlier. Detectives had long stopped checking in with her, and Harris could feel her search growing lonelier with…
Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, is facing intense criticism for his ties to a far-right social media site, Gab, that traffics in white-nationalist rhetoric and whose founder has made overtly antisemitic comments in recent days. Mastriano, who will face a Jewish Democrat on the ballot in November, paid the site $5,000 for…
Innocent Black people are significantly more likely to face wrongful convictions than innocent white people, a September report by the National Registry of Exonerations found, highlighting the stark racial disparities Black Americans continue to battle within the U.S. justice system. On high-level offenses – murder, sexual assault, and drug crimes – Black Americans are seven…
One by one, they scooped a clump of gray-brown soil and poured it into glass jars. First came the descendants of one of the victims, then local faith leaders and elected officials, and finally two high school students who had just delivered monologues asJoseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas, the two Black teenagers lynched here in…
Near sundown one night this week in West Texas, a white-bearded jail warden and his twin brother allegedly drove past a group of migrants trekking through the desert. Then, authorities say, the warden stopped the truck and backed up. Migrants scrambled to hide in the brush, and later told authorities they could hear a man’s…
A former soldier who is federally charged with lying in his application for a security clearance said he enlisted in the Army so he’d be “more proficient in killing” Black people, prosecutors allege. Killian M. Ryan, who was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, held the rank of specialist and served in the Army until…
An Arizona State University student Republican group is hosting known white supremacist Jared Taylor. The visit has sparked community outcry and a planned protest. Taylor, despite being known for saying and publishing white supremacist and racist ideas, considers himself a “white advocate” rather than a “white nationalist.” At ASU this Friday, he is scheduled to…
PHOENIX (AP) — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale Law School graduate. He secured a clerkship on the Arizona Supreme Court, in part thanks to his unusual life…
Students at several Virginia high schools have planned walkouts today, Sept. 27, in opposition to new guidelines from the administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) that would restrict the rights of transgender students. The walkouts, organized by the Pride Liberation Project, a statewide LGBTQ youth advocacy group, are scheduled throughout the day on campuses across…
A trio of northern Virginia school districts vowed to resist an order from the administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin that would sharply reduce the rights of transgender students, while others suggested they will comply, as school leaders across the state absorbed a 180-degree turn in policy on gender identity. Youngkin (R) directed all 133 of…
DENVER (AP) — A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released Friday. Despite the finding, the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was still listed as undetermined,…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) – Multiple neighborhoods in Gainesville were papered with hateful flyers in an apparent repeat of an incident earlier this year. Residents found their property littered with bags of corn kernels attached to flyers containing antisemitic messages. Gainesville Police Department officials say they received multiple complaints about the flyers. Some of the areas…
REDDING, Calif. — Times are grim in the cowboy far north of California. Wildfires rage. Covid-19 lingers. Drought has stripped most of the snow from Mount Shasta and shrunk Shasta Lake. But other business has consumed the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meetings. “We’ve been duped!” one resident charged during an epic six-hour debate in…
Antisemitic messages were written at various spots across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on the first day of classes, prompting an apology from frustrated administrators at the school, which has a significant Jewish population. The chalk messages targeted student Jewish groups by labeling them “racist,” “genocidal” and “having blood on their hands.” The messages appeared in…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected a bid by the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia to delay his trial on seditious conspiracy charges over his role in the January 6 assault on Congress. Prosecutors say 57-year-old former U.S. Army paratrooper Stewart Rhodes ordered Oath Keepers under his command to spread out…
White nationalists keep showing up in the hearings of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Evidence is mounting that white nationalist groups who want to establish an all-white state played a significant role in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five dead and dozens wounded. Thus far, the…
Another taboo in Europe is about to be broken. In Sweden, voters delivered a narrow mandate after elections on Sunday to a loose coalition of right-wing parties, including one with a neo-fascist past. On Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, a center-left Social Democrat allied to other left and green parties, conceded defeat. Her party…
JAMESTOWN, Mich. — Two librarians had quit since the trouble began, and Kaitlin McLaughlin didn’t want to be the third. But the same term kept coming up in board meetings and on yard signs, making her feel awkward and wrongly accused: grooming. People in this western Michigan farming town said the Patmos Library was “grooming”…
A new report by the Anti-Defamation League claims that extremism and antisemitism in Florida are on the rise. The ADL is an organization aimed at stopping the defamation of Jewish people and identifying anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, according to its website. Ben Popp, an investigative researcher with the ADL, said extremist-related incidents nearly…
On Sept. 22, Richard Glossip is scheduled to be executed by the state of Oklahoma. There will be an anti-death penalty vigil at 5 pm on Sept. 22 at the corner of McIntire and Preston Ave. It is Cosponsored by Charlottesville Friends’ Meeting and Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Endorsed by The Activists’ Guide….
A Black mayor is under investigation after he personally tore down a Confederate monument in his town of Enfield, North Carolina, however, since the monument’s removal, a white nationalist group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan is pushing back with threatening flyers. “It is ridiculous to believe that statue should stand in a park that…
Students at the Keller Independent School District outside Fort Worth, Texas, went back to school. But instead of the focus being on their return, much of the attention has been heaped on an email that was sent out the day before, instructing school staff to pull all copies of a list of more than 40 books from…
For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York have walked past a panel of three large bronze plaques mounted at the entrance of Bartlett Hall Science Center that includes an image of a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” written below it, according to findings in…
The white supremacists behind Antelope Hill, a hate group that churns out books that idealize fascism and denigrate marginalized groups, exploit the low standards for entry of online retailers such as Amazon to run their business. Hatewatch reported in June that extremists Vincent Cucchiara, 24, Sarah Elizabeth Cucchiara (née Nahrgang), 25, and Dmitri Anatolievich Loutsik, 25,…
A 19-year-old from Woodbridge, Va., who police said was shot during an undercover drug operation last week died Sunday, Prince William County police said. Jaiden Malik Carter was one of two males who police said were shot Thursday during an exchange of gunfire connected with an operation to investigate the potential distribution of fentanyl, an…
HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — High Point Police have been taking calls for the last 24 hours about white supremacy messages left in bags on people’s driveways. A neo-Nazi group called the Aryan Freedom Network is believed to be behind the flyers. Their name is tied to the bags filled with rice and a card…
Measures across the country aim to restrict what children can read. In one Virginia school district this fall, parents will receive an email notification every time their child checks out a book. In a Florida school system, teachers are purging their classrooms of texts that mention racism, sexism, gender identity or oppression. And a Pennsylvania school district is convening a panel…
In the last two years, dozens of state legislatures have introduced bills that would limit what teachers can say Here are some video interviews with teachers https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/17/us/teaching-critical-race-theory.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Education
A tirade recorded at a California Taco Bell punctuated a string of discriminatory incidents this month aimed at Indian Americans and Hindu temples, deepening concerns that “Hinduphobia” is on the rise. Krishnan Iyer had stopped into a Fremont, Calif., Taco Bell near his home on Aug. 21 to pick up an online order for his…
A police officer fatally shot an unarmed Black man in an apartment in Columbus, Ohio, early Tuesday morning, moments after encountering him during an attempt to serve a felony warrant, body camera footage released hours after the shooting shows. The city’s police chief, Elaine Bryant, said at a news conference on Tuesday that Officer Ricky…
Her story, while remarkable, remains relatively obscure. State Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli grew up not far from Sheffield in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts yet didn’t hear her story until about 20 years ago. He found that many of his colleagues in the Statehouse were also largely in the dark about the significance of her…
Students at the Keller Independent School District outside Fort Worth, Texas, went back to school. But instead of the focus being on their return, much of the attention has been heaped on an email that was sent out the day before, instructing school staff to pull all copies of a list of more than 40 books from…
President Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad. The conversation during a ferocious lightning storm on Aug. 4 unfolded as a sort of Socratic dialogue between…
In one Virginia school district this fall, parents will receive an email notification every time their child checks out a book. In a Florida school system, teachers are purging their classrooms of texts that mention racism, sexism, gender identity or oppression. And a Pennsylvania school district is convening a panel of adults to sign off on every title that school librarians propose…
Carolyn Bryant Donham had accused the 14-year-old boy of whistling at her in 1955. His killing helped galvanize the civil rights movement. NASHVILLE — A grand jury in Mississippi examining the case of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy whose abduction and killing more than six decades ago became a galvanizing force for the civil…
FROM DEMOCRACY NOW: We speak with Michael Mable about the life and legacy of his brother, Black Panther activist and political prisoner Albert Woodfox. Woodfox spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prison guard. Woodfox’s conviction was overturned for the third time…
A personal note: Howard was my mentor and friend during my days as a student and anti-war activist at Boston University aka “the Berkeley of the East” in the early ’70’s. His influence in Boston and nationwide was profound. We were the city where over 100,000 people participated in the 1969 Moratorium. We were the…
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is facing a second lawsuit over his administration’s repeated refusals to release records related to an email tip line he set up for parents to report school employees who teach “divisive” subjects. Nonprofit ethics watchdog group American Oversight and the law firm Ballard Spahr filed the suit in Arlington County Circuit…
James Coddington will be killed by the state of Oklahoma this week. A vigil for the execution of James Coddington will occur at noon Thursday, August 25 Albemarle County Office Building (at McIntire and Preston) Vigil sponsored by Charlottesville Friends Meeting Endorsed by The Activists’ Guide https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/board-recommends-clemency-oklahoma-death-row-inmate-87885360
The Maryland Republican gubernatorial nominee calls the FBI search of Trump’s residence ‘nothing short of communist stasi police state tactics’ . Maryland Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox called the FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s residence “criminal” and said if elected he would use the full force of government — including the state police and Maryland…
How Kansans went from bombing clinics to protecting abortion rights 1974 — Bob Dole campaign uses ‘abortion issue’ 1986 — Wichita abortion clinic bombed 1991 — ‘Summer of Mercy’ 1993 — Tiller shot but survives 1997 — Woman’s Right to Know Act 2001 — Another ‘Summer of Mercy’ 2005 — Christin Gilbert dies 2009 —…
Here in New York, police arrested 10 climate campaigners Thursday as they held a peaceful sit-in protest inside the Manhattan offices of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The activists are demanding Schumer and other Democratic leaders reverse fossil fuel-friendly concessions in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act. One provision, added to win the support of…
FROM DEMOCRACY NOW: We speak with Michael Mable about the life and legacy of his brother, Black Panther activist and political prisoner Albert Woodfox. Woodfox spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prison guard. Woodfox’s conviction was overturned for the third time…
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — An unruly audience forced the Hanover School Board to threaten to clear the room during their meeting on Tuesday night. The commotion came following controversy over a proposed policy for transgender or non-binary students when it comes to using the bathroom. The proposed policy would have transgender and non-binary students apply…
For the past few weeks, Rose Koepsell has awakened to one of the best views in Washington. “It’s surreal,” said Koepsell. “We get up in the morning, and there is the nation’s Capitol, sir, staring us straight in the face. And then you look to the west, and it’s the Washington Monument. How cool.” Koepsell,…
RVA Unity Walk PEACE AND POWER DEMONSTRATION Saturday, August 27 | 5:30pm | Virginia Museum of History and Culture Join Coming to the Table RVA as we walk in Peace AND Power, honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of building the beloved community and taking inspired action to dismantle systems of oppression and…
The Bluest Eye by Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison was pulled from circulation last year in Virginia Beach because some parents claimed that it is “sexually explicit.” It was returned to the shelves later after being reviewed by several committees, which noted the lasting impact the book could have on students. What valuable lesson might…
ATTN: Hanover County School Board is set to introduce a bathroom policy that would, among other things, require trans students to go through criminal background check simply to use the bathroom.Trans students deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. This is yet another attack on trans kids, from a school board that has repeatedly…
Both threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life. Experts blame dehumanizing and apocalyptic language. The armed attack this week on an F.B.I. office in Ohio by a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump who was enraged by the bureau’s search of Mr. Trump’s private residence in…
On the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a flag-waving crowd gathered outside the Florida jail where an alleged participant was being held. Jeremy Michael Brown, a retired Special Forces soldier charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct on restricted Capitol grounds, addressed them through a phone call played over a loudspeaker. The…
The authorities also suspect the deaths could be connected to the homicide of a Muslim man in Albequerque. Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, the planning and land use director for the city of Española, N.M., was fatally shot in Albuquerque.Credit…City of Española The police in Albuquerque are investigating the killings of three Muslim men that they say…
Seven trees near the former concentration camp in Germany were chopped down in what the International Committee of Buchenwald Dora said was a “horrible act of vandalism.” Seven trees memorializing people who died at Buchenwald during the Holocaust were chopped down near the former concentration camp outside Weimar, Germany, in what the International Committee of…
In Ohio, a man wearing body armor and armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle fired a nail gun into an FBI field office in Cincinnati on Thursday, prompting a gun battle, chase and armed standoff that ended hours later when the gunman was shot dead by police in a cornfield. Officials identified the man as 42-year-old Ricky…
A VERY MISLEADING HEADLINE. IFA IS NOT CLOSING. IT IS CLOSING ITS CHARLOTTESVILLE PRESENCE. Nonprofit behind Sines suits winds down operations The organization that funded and directed the groundbreaking federal lawsuit against neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizers of the deadly and violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 will close up its shop and concentrate…
Draconian policies targeting women and people who can become pregnant, LGBTQ+ people — especially trans and non-binary youth — and communities of color have been introduced and implemented across the country Editor’s Note: including right here in Madison, Culpeper, Orange and beyond. These threats to our rights, our safety, and our democracy are massive and daunting….
Thought the group would like this Posted by Erica Harris August 9, 2022
A small city in Alabama moved to disband its three-member police force after one of them sent a racist text message that then circulated on social media. Pending an investigation into the text message, the City Council in Vincent, Ala., suspended the police chief and assistant chief at a meeting and moved to dissolve the…
Robert Adams was standing in a San Bernardino, Calif., parking lot when a sedan with tinted windows rolled up. Two police officers exited suddenly, guns drawn and eventually pointed toward Adams, according to surveillance footage. Adams turned away and ran, and within seconds, one of the officers shot him, the video shows. Adams, 23, later…
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the white supremacist Unite the Right rally. While Charlottesville hosted Unity Days in 2019 as a memorial for the deadly rally, City Council has confirmed that the city will not hold an anniversary event this year. “[With] no staff, no time, no money, no security, and with COVID…
A man who was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer on Saturday in Northwest Washington appears to have been struck in the back of the head, according to the man’s sister who watched a videoMonday from the officer’s body camera. Police said the officer saw Kevin Hargraves-Shird “armed with a handgun” before the officer fired one…
RICHMOND — Ann Hunter McLean, a historian who defends Confederate statues and asserts that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War, has resigned from the Virginia Board of Historic Resources over what a spokesman for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called a disagreement about priorities. “After discussion about our Administration’s goals and priorities…
The parents of an Illinois teen want answers after their daughter went to pick up dinner at a restaurant drive-thru but never made it home. The family of Alexis Wilson, 19, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Illinois police officers accused of punching and killing the teenager. “Alexis was the sweetest girl in our…
Three protesters were arrested and charged with unlawful entry at the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park as dozens of climate activists turned out to demand more urgent action on climate change. Before the start of the game, long a tradition in Washington, the activists moved toward the center field entry gate to disrupt…
A FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN AND A CURRENT GOP CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE ARE EXPECTED TO JOIN SEVERAL PROMINENT WHITE NATIONALIST PROPAGANDISTS AND A FORMER KLAN LAWYER IN NOVEMBER AT ONE OF THE LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL WHITE SUPREMACIST GATHERINGS Steve King, who represented Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2021, and Laura Loomer, a self-described…
The social media posts are of a distinct type. They hint darkly that the CIA or the FBI are behind mass shootings. They traffic in racist, sexist and homophobic tropes. They revel in the prospect of a “white boy summer.” White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often run by young men, are building thriving, macho communities…
Testimony that some people do act, they don’t just talk Outside the Supreme Court, police arrested more than 180 reproductive rights protesters Thursday as they peacefully blocked an intersection in a massive show of nonviolent civil disobedience. The protest took place just six days after the court’s conservative majority voted 6 to 3 to strike…
By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA With protests planned for Saturday after the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Buffalo, New York, gun control advocates hope to intensify pressure on Congress to pass laws and additional funding for research to help curb the growing violence. And they say they’re prepared to use philanthropic…
