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Source: iOne Digital Creative Services This series on Black child suicide will touch on serious themes that some readers may find to be disturbing and/or traumatizing. Still, it is a subject we must face, together, in the fight to save our children. There are resources and grounding exercises at the end of each article. It’s […]
Five new members have joined the U.S. Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys. The new members consist of U.S. Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), Henry Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Troy Carter (D-La.) as well as U.S. Department of Labor Chief Diversity and Equity Officer Alaysia Black Hackett and U.S. Department of Health […]
Black boys are twice as likely to die by suicide than white youth. In 2014, 80% of suicide deaths in the Black community were men. Black men in the US have the highest attempt rate for the African American community, according to a study by Dr. Patrice Nicole. The suicide rate, according to The American […]
Comment on this storyComment Nearly a century ago, nine Black teens were wrongfully accused of raping two young White women — then arrested, tried and sentenced all in the span of two weeks. Now, former president Donald Trump’s legal team has raised eyebrows by citing that case while arguing for more time to prepare a […]
[1/2]Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File photo Acquire Licensing Rights
“No quarter. Raise the black flag.” Enrique Tarrio is raging online about President Joe Biden’s election victory. It’s November 2020, a couple of months before the January 6 insurrection. But Tarrio isn’t just an angry Donald Trump supporter posting on the internet. He’s the leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group with perhaps thousands of […]
02 July 2023 A CORRESPONDENT Washington DC, USAP A judge on Friday awarded more than $US1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington, DC, that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest. Superior Court Associated Judge Neal A Kravitz also barred the extremist group […]
A judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday ordered members of the Proud Boys to pay over $1 million to a historic Black church after it sued the far-right group for destruction of property in a December 2020 episode in which the group’s members tore down the church’s large Black Lives Matter sign. The lawsuit, filed […]
Proud Boys former chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio attends a rally on Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. (Joshua Lott/Washington Post) The Proud Boys organization must pay more than $1 million to a historic Black church in D.C. after a judge determined members of the group damaged a Black Lives Matter sign displayed on the building’s […]
Supporters of President Donald Trump wearing attire associated with the Proud Boys attend a rally at Freedom Plaza, Dec. 12, 2020, in Washington. A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner […]