Parents of students at Missouri's Holt High School are mad about an assignment that asks which political party is most likely to deny racism was involved in an incident where an unarmed Black man is shot by cops. The answer, of course, is Republicans, but my thing is—why are they mad at the obvious truth?
His release comes over 42 years after he was convicted of a triple homicide. It is the longest wrongful conviction in Missouri History and one of the longest in the country.
Six years after police brutality stoked the fires that nearly brought the city to a halt with the tragic death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri, is stepping into the limelight for a different reason.
A Missouri mom is rightfully beside herself after her 14-year-old daughter reported she was the target of a racist meme, sent and shared among her classmates. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE. The meme in question shows a white man hosing a young Black child with water, with a caption that […]
A new study shares some shocking (or maybe not so shocking) numbers.
A Kansas City, Missouri man is being honored for defending a bus driver under attack with his cane. Rodney Goldman was riding a bus when a man walked onto the bus and started attacking the female bus driver. CBS St. Louis reports: I was just screaming and screaming,” bus driver Lynn Judge said. “I didn’t […]
Webster University says that all parties involved agreed to not go forward with the Black History Month lecture.
Eighteen-year-old Mike Brown’s death at the hands of police inspired passionate protests in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri and new questions about racism and police…
Police brutality has become the topic of discussion since the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri. But a lot of people haven’t stopped to think about why these acts of violence are taking place in our communities. Attorney Warren Ballentine talks to”The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” to explain. Listen to the […]
A rapper named G.A.G.E. has released a song entitled “I Am Mike Brown” in response to the shooting and the violent turn that protests have taken in Ferguson, Missouri in the days after the shooting. He uses Mike Brown’s mother’s (Lesley McSpadden) early statements to the news in both the beginning and the end of the […]
