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At the time, Ole Hougen was on probation from another racially motivated attack that he committed in 2018 involving a different Black male victim. The DOJ noted that this was Hougen's fourth attack against a Black person in the last seven years.

Good News

Through her app, I Heart My HBCU, Howard alumna Dominique King is on a mission to drive donations to historically Black colleges and universities.

National

A local Republican "community leader" based in Idaho was blasted recently for a racist since-deleted Tweet complaining about a commercial showing a Black family enjoying the holidays. The Daily Beast reported Lisa Leisy lost it on social media after seeing an old Hershey commercial depicting a Black family reveling in the holiday spirit. 

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Kiesha Nix has made history as the first Black woman vice president within the Los Angeles Lakers franchise.

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Former President Barack Obama recently made a surprise visit to a Chicago-based YMCA community center.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

Pattern and practice investigations are civil matters and can result in specific measures being implemented as a part of an agreement with the department and the DOJ. Investigators are also supposed to consider community experiences and insights as a part of the process. 

National

Many active state guards were established at the start of World War II or well before. The Maryland Defense Force was reactivated in 1983. The New York Guard was started in 1917. Like South Carolina's, some state guards have their roots in militias that predate the United States. 

Since 2013, suicide amongst Black men in Colorado has nearly doubled from 10.2 suicides per 100,000 people to 20.2 suicides per 100,000 in 2020.

National

If the privileged, entitled and often dangerous white women we not-so-affectionately call “Karens” have nothing else, they have the nerve. On Thursday, a white woman from Ohio was sentenced to six months in prison for shouting racial slurs at a group of Black teenagers and trying to hit them with her car in a grocery […]

Three Marylanders have the new omicron variant of COVID-19. That’s according to Gov. Larry Hogan. Maryland joins New York, California, Hawaii, Minnesota and Colorado as states that have reported cases of the omicron variant. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD OUR APP AND TAKE US WITH YOU ANYWHERE! This comes as Maryland reports 1,700 new COVID-19 cases on Friday. The […]