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Fifteen years ago, the U.S. government spent over $5 million on what was then the largest immigration raid in the history of the country. They arrested 389 undocumented workers at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant, approximately 20% of Postville’s population. Of those arrested, 290 were Guatemalan, 93 Mexican, four Ukrainian and two were Israeli. In […]
The attack on the Tops Friendly Market on Buffalo’s Jefferson Avenue last May 14 shook Western New York to the core. In the span of less than 10 minutes, an 18-year-old wielding an AK-47 killed seven and injured three Black people. The victims were teachers, caretakers, activists, new fathers, grandmothers, community leaders and all around […]
For almost three weeks, at the height of a once-in-a-generation crisis, Dominic Raab was in charge of the UK government. When Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care with COVID in April 2020, it was Mr Raab who took over at the top. Addressing the public during a Downing Street news conference shortly after taking […]
An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94 shots in the death last year of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who fired at least one round at officers during a car and foot chase, the state’s attorney general announced Monday. Walker was shot 46 times in a hail of gunfire […]
An Ohio grand jury declined to bring charges against eight Akron police officers — seven of them white — in connection with last year’s fatal shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black motorist, officials said Monday. “The grand jury officers were legally justified in their use of force,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced. A […]
Washington(CNN) Two-thirds of Black Americans say that recent increased focus on race and racial inequality in the US has not led to changes that are improving the lives of Black people, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. The finding marks a pessimistic turn: In . . .
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group, has settled a lawsuit brought by the group’s first Black president, Alphonso David, who had accused the group of racial discrimination and said it had fired him because of his race. Mr. David was ousted by the group’s board in 2021 after a
This story is part of a series called “Future of Us,” exploring how a pandemic, a murder and a city on fire have changed us and our path forward. The pandemic brought Americans outdoors in a big way. Remember sold-out bikes and snowshoes? Patios in the dead of winter? What Duluth nature photographer and author […]
Nationwide protests under the banner “women, life, freedom” continue sporadically in Iran, the most recent marking 40 days since the execution of two protestors. Among the most important achievements of the movement so far has been the degree to which it has brought various ethnic groups closer, further legitimizing demands for greater rights for the […]
Don Lemon asks Nichols’ mom about the officers charged in son’s death being Black RowVaughn Wells, the mother of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died following a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, tells CNN’s Don Lemon the officers involved in her son’s death brought shame to the Black community. Source link