A New York bar owner who repeatedly disobeyed state coronavirus mandates was arrested Sunday after allegedly driving into a group of sheriff’s deputies and failing to stop even after he hit one of the deputies, NBC New York reported. Danny Presti, 34, was accused of defying COVID-19 restrictions by keeping his bar Mac’s Public House open past 10 p.m.
GOP political pundit Candace Owens took aim at an unlikely source in singer-songwriter Harry Styles when the English musician became the first man to grace the cover of Vogue magazine alone this month. Styles appeared in a dress, blowing up a blue balloon, which seemed to trigger Owens as if she didn’t know she could wear dresses and blow up balloons, too. “There is no society that can survive without strong men,” Owens tweeted on Nov. 14.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court did exactly what it should have done Saturday and dismissed Reps. Mike Kelly and Sean Parnell’s blatant attempt to disenfranchise millions of the state’s voters who used mail-in ballots during the recent presidential election.
President Donald Trump has truly been a president for racists and white supremacists, often sparking violent reactions and liberating this group of what is arguably the country’s most hateful people. Just this summer, more than 360 tracked counterprotests surfaced in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, with 40 of them, or almost 12%, ending in violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project nonprofit’s U.S. Crisis Monitor.
File this one under nonsense these poor teachers have to deal with: A parent can be heard in viral video shared on Twitter Tuesday venting irrationally about the election and trying to argue that no one won it, despite clear evidence to the contrary.
The beloved country singer Dolly Parton seldom disappoints, from her proclamation during an interview with Billboard that “of course Black lives matter” to her nonprofit effort mailing free books to children each month. Now she’s out here helping fund a potentially life-saving coronavirus vaccine. Following the biotechnology company Moderna’s announcement that its coronavirus vaccine was reporting 94.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer seems to have suggested in a recent interview that President-elect Joe Biden bypass Congress and push up to $50,000 of student loan relief per person through via executive order in the first 100 days of his presidency. It’s not necessarily a new idea. Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced a resolution in September that would accomplish the same goal, and President Donald Trump has certainly been no stranger to executive orders.
Hillary Clinton called it four years ago when she pointed out then-Republican nominee Donald Trump’s propensity to cry system rigging when he happened to face an undesired result. “You know, every time Donald thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is is rigged against him,” she said during the final presidential debate of 2016. “He lost the Iowa caucus. He lost the Wisconsin primary.
Imagine being accused of hunting down and murdering a man in broad daylight, sending blatantly racist text messages, then having the audacity to have your friends argue you should be released on bond because you’re a good person. If you can’t even imagine it, it’s likely because white privilege hasn’t served you with the same optimistic audacity as it has Travis McMichael.
I distinctly remember my mother reading to me author Robert Coles’ The Story of Ruby Bridges, a classic about a 6-year-old girl’s work to integrate a New Orleans school in 1960. The story shows the hateful stares and anger-induced racial slurs Ruby faced on her walk to William Frantz Elementary School, and I’ll never forget wondering how so much contempt could be directed toward someone so young and innocent.
President Donald Trump resumed his usual claims of pending victory Tuesday in an election that has been called for his opponent, Joe Biden, since Saturday. “WE WILL WIN!” the soon-exiting president tweeted optimistically and with little regard for reality. Biden has earned 290 electoral votes to Trump’s 214 and secured more than 76 million votes in total to Trump’s less than 72 million, according to the Associated Press.
There’s a reason why Black women have been so enthusiastically highlighting our own contributions in the presidential race netting President-elect Joe Biden the election, and it’s not only that his running mate, Kamala Harris, is slated to make history as the first Black and South Asian American woman to serve as vice president. Granted, the new historical precedence is a large part of the reason why, but that’s hardly the whole story.
It turns out a white Virginia police sergeant who levied felony criminal charges against Black Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas for an alleged conspiracy to “injure” a Confederate monument may have done so to feed a longstanding grudge, according to The Huffington Post. A scathing email Portsmouth Sgt.
NBA player Jamal Murray of the Denver Nuggets dropped 50 points, helping secure game seven against the Utah Jazz on Sunday, but basketball isn’t the only reason the Canadian breakout star was driven to tears in a postgame interview.
John Thompson, an esteemed Georgetown University basketball coach and the first Black head coach to win the NCAA national championship, has died at 78 years old, the university announced Monday. And while his personal record in athletics as a two-time champion playing for the Boston Celtics is more than enough to earn him due praise, it’s his personal investment in his players and their 97% graduation rate that have humbled those even outside of the world of sports.
A New Jersey mayor who initially defended his move to charge a local activist for a Black Lives Matter rally she held to advocate for affordable housing has now rescinded the bill for close to $2,500, according to ABC affiliate WABC. Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac wrote Emily Gil about his change of heart, but it was far from an apology, the 18-year-old recent graduate of Bergen County Technical School told WABC.
The same weekend President Donald Trump’s team revealed that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway would be speaking at the Republican National Convention, the mother of four announced she would be stepping away from her official duties at the end of the month following her teen daughter’s threatened emancipation.
In what has to be a last-ditch attempt to appear prepared for the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump’s campaign released its complete list of more than 70 speakers for the convention Sunday. On it, Trump’s relatives and the likes of staffers including Kellyanne Conway are described as “honorable.
A Black North Carolina police officer who defended George Floyd in a viral TikTok video has been fired from the Greensboro Police Department after an accusation he violated the department’s social media policy by wearing his uniform in the video. Former officer Ja’Quay Williams said in a TikTok video posted to YouTube Thursday that he’s been on administrative leave for two months while the department investigated his TikTok account.
A Florida deputy is on administrative leave after video showed him trying to stifle the freedom of speech of a Black man he was detaining Saturday on a trespassing allegation. In the 13-second clip posted on social media, the deputy identified as Charles Rhoads by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office can be seen handcuffing 19-year-old Kevin Wygant and telling him he does not have the right to free speech, WPTV reported.
Racism has long proven to be as deadly as it is disheartening, and a new study published Monday indicates that newborn babies aren’t exempt from the dire effects of the long-practiced hatred. Black babies are more likely to die when white doctors are in charge of their care than when Black doctors care for them, researchers wrote in the study.
A U.S. Postal Service worker says a “lull in mail volume” has everything to do with President Donald Trump’s presumed attempt to take away Americans’ constitutional right to vote. “They’re trying to shut us down so people can’t vote,” the unnamed worker said in a video shared on social media Sunday, “just basically trying to take away people’s constitutional right to vote to rig the election.
A Memphis woman hospitalized with COVID-19 managed to recover enough to return home, only to find out she no longer had a home, WPSD-TV reported. Leslie Nelson, 56, was evicted after she was unable to pay her rent due to medical costs in the thousands, the news station reported.
To add insult to injury, a process server tasked with serving her an eviction notice allegedly had to be talked out of taking the woman’s antique rifle.
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez learned Wednesday she would only be given one minute to speak at next week’s virtual Democratic National Convention, she tweeted the poem “I have only just a minute,” written by late civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin E. Mays. That tweet attracted a bit of unexpected attention.
The attention was paid by her second-grade teacher, who goes by @mjacobs324 on Twitter.
Days after more than 97,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus in July, some teachers have taken to penning their own obituaries to get officials to delay school reopening plans. Whitney Leigh Reddick, a Florida special education teacher, wrote in a Facebook group dubbed the Duval Schools Pandemic Solutions Team Tuesday that in her 33rd year of teaching she “left us while alone in isolation and on a ventilator at a Duval county hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.
As schools grapple with the pressure of President Donald Trump’s threat to reopen or else, one Indiana public school became one of the first in the nation to actually do so last week. And the end result was that doors weren’t open 24 hours before a positive coronavirus case was reported.
The United States’ coronavirus death toll exceeded 1,000 for five days straight last week, but who could possibly expect President Donald Trump to sacrifice a day of golfing because of a deadly pandemic? No one who’s been paying attention to the commander-in-chief’s priorities, which seem to align with bashing liberal state leaders, tweeting about his competitor in the 2020 election, and the heavy-hitter, getting re-elected.
A Black teen working at a Washington state Lowe’s was forced to change clothes when a customer interpreted his “Black Panther Wakanda Forever” shirt as racist, according to KIRO 7. Kyle Sales told the television station his supervisor pulled him aside last weekend and gave him two options: either buy a new shirt or go home and change. “This is from a movie. How is this racist?” he asked.
Four protesters in Louisville, the same Kentucky city Breonna Taylor was killed in, started a hunger strike Monday; they say they won’t be stopping until justice for Taylor is achieved, The Louisville Courier-Journal initially reported. Amira Bryant, Ari Maybe, Vincent Gonzalez, and Tabin Ibershoff announced their plan to only eat vitamin supplements and drink water, green tea, and black coffee.
New body-camera footage obtained by CNN Wednesday revealed that George Floyd’s final words were the same words uttered by Eric Garner in his last of 11 attempts to get New York City police officers to spare his life. “I can’t breathe,” both Black men said before they died. Both incidents led to protests throughout the nation.
Both men left behind children who are now without fathers.