NYPD Officer Found Guilty of Fatally Shooting Akai Gurley
The jury, a panel of seven men and five women, deliberated for two days before delivering the verdict. One juror called it a “very hard decision.”
Police are still killing unarmed black people
So far this year, 390 people have been killed by police, according to a Washington Post database of police shootings.
Lock Up the Men, Evict the Women and Children
Part of the daily reality of poverty in America, evictions—along with mass incarceration—are the mechanisms used to destroy communities and profit from the misery of the poor.
More Than 1.5 Million Florida Voters Will Be Missing From Tuesday’s Primary
How a Confederate-era law designed to suppress black voters impacts elections today.
The scary rise of private intelligence companies
In almost every aspect of life, things that used to be done by governments are being outsourced to the private sector with often predictably bad results.
Scott Brown Says Orlando Shooting Did Not Primarily Target Gay People
“I don’t identify the people who were murdered as from a particular class of people.”
UC Davis Spent Over $175K to Hide Pepper-Spraying Search Results on Google
Instead of accepting its tarnished reputation, UC Davis chose to remove as many search results of the incident as possible while continuing to increase the tuition of its students.
Bernie Sanders supporters are taking over the Democratic Party machine, one state at a...
From California to Massachusetts, a grassroots revolt from the left is wresting control of the party away from the corporate establishment.
The Suicide of the Liberal Church
The liberal denominations and their seminaries, by betraying the poor, especially people of color, in a desperate bid to stay financially solvent, are making themselves obsolete.
250 Emaciated Lions Found During Trophy Hunting Farm Raid
Thanks to one man’s activism, 250 lions were rescued from being killed by affluent trophy hunters.