Civil Rights & Social Justice
There is no Senate version of Pressley, Coleman, Lee or Rep. Cori Bush to share their voice and experience as Black women grappling with these issues.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Monday establishing a new state holiday known as “Victims of Communism Day,” which requires students to learn about communist regimes. But it's really just part of Florida Republicans' anti-woke agenda.
President Biden nominated U.S. Southern Mississippi District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves to serve as the U.S. Sentencing Commission chair. If confirmed, he will be the commission's first Black chair.
“Acoli must be released because the statutory standards for granting parole have been met, without regard to extraneous factors like sympathy or passion or public opinion," read the court's decision.
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?
The Brooklyn Center police union leader praised the officer who detained and injured Katie Wright for filming the same kind of traffic stop that got her son, Daunte Wright, killed last year. Chuck Valleau called it a “professional response."
Gov. Greg Abbott said during an appearance on the Joe Pags show that Texas might consider challenging a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring states to offer free public education to all children. Apparently, he's against the law because "all children" includes illegal immigrant children.
A Florida man was caught on camera in the midst of a profane, slur-heavy verbal attack on Black students at South Miami Middle School after he said the students hit his car.
Supporting the work of abortion funds and reproductive justice organizations is paramount.
The conversation also comes at a crucial point as media narratives amplify divisions between the two groups.