Category: Race

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, USA Today On the worst day of her life, Samaria Rice made lunch – turkey sandwiches and fruit cups – for her two youngest children.  She gave her son Tamir and daughter Tajai money to walk to the neighborhood store for snacks. Rice, a mother of four, got dressed to go to the grocery store. She planned to buy the ingredients […]

By Tess Owen, VICE Some of the largest private Facebook groups catering to the boogaloo movement have scores of members who identify as active-duty military. The U.S. military appears to have a brewing boogaloo problem. Active-duty military are flocking to online networks frequented by the anti-government movement, known for its meme culture and Hawaiian shirt-clad adherents, who […]

By Tommy Beer, Forbes TOPLINE – The FBI announced Tuesday that Steven Carrillo, the U.S. Air Force sergeant who allegedly murdered law enforcement officers in California during protests earlier this month, was associated with the right-wing Boogaloo movement, and that Carrillo chose the timing of his attacks to “take advantage of a time when this nation was mourning the […]

By Timothy Rapp, Bleacher Report The entire field of NASCAR drivers participating in Monday’s Geico 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway pushed Bubba Wallace’s No. 43 car to the front of the pack a day after a noose was found in his garage stall. On Sunday evening, NASCAR released a statement saying a noose had been discovered in Wallace’s driver […]

By ESPN News Services, ESPN A noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, on Sunday, less than two weeks after Wallace, who is NASCAR’s only black driver, successfully pushed the stock car racing series to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and facilities. “Late this afternoon, NASCAR was made […]

By Bill Littlefield, WBUR On April 23, 1971, the Supreme Court voted to send the world’s best-known athlete to jail. The count was 5-3, with Justice Thurgood Marshall recusing himself, because he’d been with the Justice Department when it went after Muhammad Ali for declining to join the military back in 1967. So why doesn’t Ali’s biography […]

By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 13, 1961, an interracial group of eighteen rabbis and ministers participated in a freedom ride to Tallahassee, Florida, sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality. The riders experienced a few minor confrontations along the way, but were spared major incidents of violence in Florida due to the governor’s […]

By Jorge Solis, Newsweek 21 years ago, an unarmed Amadou Diallo was tragically killed by four plain-clothed New York City police officers, who fired 41 shots at him. Last month, an unarmed George Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. As nonviolent protests and demonstrations continue nationwide, the decades […]

By Katie Mettler & Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post The former sheriff’s sergeant was charged with manslaughter after the fatal shooting of a black father of three. State officials say they lack authority to review allegations of racial discrimination in granting security-guard licenses. Carlos Carson was crossing the parking lot of the Tulsa motel where he had […]