News4:30 PM3hSaveNews4:30 PMNewsFederal Judge in Texas Rules Government's COVID-Related Eviction Moratorium Is UnconstitutionalIshena Robinson10Sometimes it really feels like America is The Bad Place.
Education1:00 PM6hSaveEducation1:00 PMEducationConservative-Funded Group Asks Supreme Court to End Affirmative Action in College AdmissionsIshena Robinson9The conservative-funded Students for Fair Admissions group is taking its legal challenge to Harvard’s consideration…
News2/25/21Feb 25SaveNews2/25/21NewsCapitol Chief Says Extremists Want to 'Blow Up the Capitol' at Biden's State of the Union AddressIshena Robinson12The U.S. Capitol is still at risk of a domestic terrorist attack—potentially one even bigger than the violence white…
News2/25/21Feb 25SaveNews2/25/21NewsBiden Administration Will Send Masks to Low-Income Communities Across the CountryIshena Robinson10We’re a year into the pandemic, but the U.S. government is still getting around to implementing some common-sense…
News2/25/21Feb 25SaveNews2/25/21NewsPentagon Report Spotlights White Supremacism in U.S. Military That Can Increase ‘Potency of Planned Violent Attacks’Ishena Robinson7The recent revelations of a Pentagon report sent to Congress ahead of the 2020 election probing white supremacy in…
Coronavirus2/24/21Feb 24SaveCoronavirus2/24/21CoronavirusThird COVID-19 Vaccine, This Time From Johnson & Johnson, Could Soon Be Available in the U.S.Ishena Robinson3Another COVID-19 vaccine is likely to hit the scene in the coming weeks, hopefully hastening the day when the nation…
Mass Incarceration2/24/21Feb 24SaveMass Incarceration2/24/21Mass Incarcerationlllinois Becomes First State to End Cash Bail After Governor Signs Historic Criminal Reform Measure Into LawIshena Robinson9Illinois on Monday became the first state to eliminate cash bail, the system under which people are kept in jail…
News2/24/21Feb 242News2/24/21NewsProsecutors Say 20-Year Veteran of NYPD Attacked Cop at Capitol ‘Like a Junkyard Dog,’ Beat Him With Metal PoleIshena Robinson70A former officer with the New York Police Department, whose duties once included guarding City Hall and the mayor’s…
News2/23/21Feb 23SaveNews2/23/21NewsAhmaud Arbery’s Mother Files Civil Lawsuit Against Son’s Killers, Glynn County Officials on Anniversary of DeathIshena Robinson2One year to the day that 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down by Travis McMichael and his father Greg McMichael…
News2/23/21Feb 23SaveNews2/23/21NewsSecurity Officials Testify to Senate That Violent Capitol Insurrection Was Unforeseeable, Blame Breakdown in IntelligenceIshena Robinson23At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the former chief of Capitol Police, Steven Sund, stridently denied that the violent…
Coronavirus2/23/21Feb 231Coronavirus2/23/21CoronavirusCOVID Death Toll in America Tops 500,000, Black Americans and Other Communities of Color Still Have Highest Rates of LossIshena Robinson20On Monday, the U.S. marked nearly a year since the ongoing coronavirus pandemic arrived on our shores by reaching a…
News2/22/21Feb 22SaveNews2/22/21NewsIndependent Probe in Elijah McClain Case Accuses Aurora Cops and Medics of Wrongdoing and That Internal Investigation of Incident Was SuspectIshena Robinson7An independent investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colo., has found…
Race Matters2/22/21Feb 223Race Matters2/22/21Race MattersWe Sure Aren’t Living in a Post-Racial World: U.N. Head Says White Supremacy a ‘Transnational Threat’Ishena Robinson42America exports a whole lot of its culture to the rest of the globe—music, movies, ways of dress, slang. This…
News2/22/21Feb 222News2/22/21NewsLetter From Deceased Black Cop Implicates FBI and NYPD in Malcolm X’s Death; Daughters of Icon Call for InvestigationIshena Robinson22More than 50 years after Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York at the hands of members of…
Black Joy2/22/21Feb 221Black Joy2/22/21Black Joy28 Days of Black Joy: Black SisterhoodIshena RobinsonMara Brock Akil’s iconic Girlfriends came back into our lives via Netflix last year, but though binge-watching the…
Race Matters2/19/21Feb 192Race Matters2/19/21Race MattersHead of Indianapolis Art Museum Resigns After Tone-Deaf Job Posting For Someone to Maintain Institution’s ‘Core, White Art Audience’Ishena Robinson20There’s already evidence of telling slip-ups from organizations trying, and failing, to authentically show a…
News2/19/21Feb 192News2/19/21News6 Capitol Officers Suspended (With Pay) for Behavior During Jan. 6 Insurrection; 29 More Under InvestigationIshena Robinson31While the behavior of many of the police officers who faced the enormous mob of Trump supporters and QAnon adherents…
Politics2/18/21Feb 181Politics2/18/21PoliticsDemocrats Introduce Sweeping Immigration Legislation, Offering 3 to 8 Year Path to Citizenship for Undocumented ImmigrantsIshena Robinson8Congressional Democrats are moving forward with the campaign promise of overhauling America’s problematic and…
News2/18/21Feb 18SaveNews2/18/21NewsBlack People in America Have Lost Nearly 3 Years of Life Expectancy Since the PandemicIshena Robinson7Here’s the latest bad news coming out of the horrid COVID-19 pandemic: Black Americans have lost nearly three years…
Politics2/18/21Feb 18SavePolitics2/18/21PoliticsAlicia Garza and Black to the Future Action Fund on What Democrats Owe Black VotersIshena Robinson1Black organizers are leveraging the powerful showing of Black voters in the last election to call on President Biden…