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The Los Angeles Police Department initiated an internal investigation into the sharing of a hideous Valentine’s Day-style meme that mocked the death of George Floyd. More specifically, more than one of the officers and employees allegedly passed along a meme that featured Floyd’s face along with the caption ” You Take My Breath Away” as…

The former Minneapolis police officer who was captured in real time kneeling on George Floyd’s neck until he suffocated and died, reportedly did similar things to six other arrestees in the last five years. Past victims’ testimonies paint unflattering portraits of Chauvin and the Minneapolis Police Department. Three of the victims who were interviewed by…

The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Petter Eide, a member of Norway’s Parliament, nominated the movement this week, calling it “a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.” “I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and…

The national mainstream narrative about Kyrie Irving is that of a basketball master who is also a mercurial menace in the locker room. Not much media discussion or headlines are given to Irving’s many philanthropic endeavors. Irving, 27, has purchased a home for the family of George Floyd, according to Stephen Jackson, a former NBA player…

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer,” said author and cultural anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. When we look back at 2020, it will be hard to tell which that year was. The long-simmering cauldron of Black anger and resentment toward an America that has ignored grievances from Black Americans came to a…

The families of George Floyd, Eric Garner and Jacob Blake are inextricably intertwined with each other due to police brutality and their shared belief that they “are not looked at like humans.” The three families are members of an exclusive club after their lives were “changed within seconds” after the men in their lives were…

Lil Baby paid the ultimate homage to George Floyd and his daughter by making her the guest of honor at her own birthday bash. This was the case of having one of the biggest artists of the year getting involved with what turned out to be one of the biggest stories of the year, the…

As if George Floyd or Breonna Taylor or Ahmaud Arbery don’t have names, Time magazine all but created some fictitious movement and called it a “Person of the Year” finalist in their respective places. The most befuddling thing about this announcement is that there is in fact a movement that the magazine could have used…

A Minnesota judge has struck down a request to move the trial of the four former Minneapolis Police Department officers involved in the death of George Floyd. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill confirmed the upcoming trial for the officers — identified as Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane — will not…

The Black teenager who filmed the death of George Floyd as it happened in Minneapolis on Memorial Day is now being honored by a prestigious organization. Seventeen-year-old Darnella Frazier’s valor and quick thinking enabled African Americans to showcase an example of the savage violence that is often perpetrated by law enforcement against people of color.…

A Minnesota judge dropped a lower-level murder charge against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the man who pressed his knee into the neck of George Floyd for nearly nine minutes before he died. However, Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill stated he will keep the remaining two charges on the books against Chauvin: one…

Comic superstar Dave Chappelle talked about the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing at the hands of a White cop on Memorial Day 2020. Chappelle, 47, expounds on his own Netflix series regarding the extreme emotional trauma Floyd’s televised death caused as the first guest on the new season of “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction…

The police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck has been allowed to leave the state of Minnesota. On Oct. 9, a judge in Hennepin County, Minnesota ruled that Derek Chauvin could leave the state as he awaits trial, according to StarTribune. Citing “safety concerns,” Chauvin will be able to travel until his proposed court…

The cop who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck has been released from jail. On Oct. 7, Chauvin posted a $1 million bond, according to the StarTribune. Shortly before 11 a.m. CT, Chauvin was released from Hennepin County jail and will likely remain free until the trial, which will take place on March 8. Following his…

Donald Glover has become a father for a third time. The 37-year-old actor-and-musician has revealed he and his girlfriend Michelle White welcomed their third child into the world some months ago amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the couple has named their son Donald, after the Lion King star’s father Donald McKinley Glover Sr. Speaking to actress…

A video of a Black woman yelling at her child’s White teacher has gone viral. On Sept. 29, 2020, a video emerged of the woman ridiculing the teacher during a virtual class session on Zoom. The video starts with the woman voicing her thoughts about a comment the teacher made about George Floyd. “It’s 2020, you…

The intersection where George Floyd took his last breath on Memorial Day 2020 had already been turned into an unofficial shrine that was maintained by volunteers. Now that intersection will be turned into an official memorial for the man who’s come to symbolize the national insurrection against police brutality and racial injustice. The intersection of…

The police officers who are charged in the death of George Floyd are blaming each other for the alleged crime and are seeking separate trials. According to the Washington Post, the officers are distancing themselves from each other and what occurred during the deadly arrest on May 25. Bodycam footage revealed that officers were aggressive…

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck on Memorial Day, wants the murder and manslaughter charges thrown out. Chauvin continues to languish in a Hennepin County, Minnesota, jail awaiting trial on third-degree murder, second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges, according to USA Today. The horrific video…

It took 8 minutes and 46 seconds to shock the collective American conscious out of quarantine and into action. Eight minutes and 46 seconds of modern technology capturing the death of George Floyd and transmitting it around the world. And the same 8 minutes and 46 seconds to launch protests from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C.,…