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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.,…

The governor of Tennessee quietly signed a bill that would make it a felony for protesters to camp out at the state capital in Nashville. The bill signed by Republican Gov. Bill Lee makes it a Class E felony to camp out on state property. However, Lee did so without making the customary announcement to…

Millions of people around the world watched the video of George Floyd dying while a White Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on his neck. Two autopsies have concluded that Floyd’s death was a homicide. Chauvin eventually was charged with murder and three other police officers — Thomas Lane, Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao —…

One of the four former Minneapolis cops says he would have done something differently in the brutal death of George Floyd if he had a chance to do it all over again. Ex-officer Tou Thao has been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter as has fellow ex-officers J. Alexander Lueng and Thomas…

A new video showing the final minutes of George Floyd’s life, including his arrest and his beating in the backseat of a squad car by former Minneapolis officers, has been revealed in a Minnesota court, the media has learned. The new video, obtained by Daily Mail of London, shows Officer Thomas Lane knocking on…

A hologram of George Floyd hovered above the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Virginia. The statue of Lee is located on Monument Avenue in Richmond, which was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War back in 1863. However, the statue of Lee was not erected until 1890 when, according to…

National Football League helmets will prominently feature the names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and other social messaging. Front Office Sports was the first to report that the names of unarmed Black men and women who have been killed by police will be placed on the back of NFL players’ helmets in large,…

Great art will always stand the test of time. In the summer of 1989, Public Enemy released the most poignant protest song in hip-hop history in “Fight the Power” for Spike Lee‘s gut-wrenching film, Do the Right Thing. Thirty-one years later, the song speaks to a new generation of activists inspired by the killings of…

Iconic Congresswoman Maxine Waters doesn’t want another George Floyd episode popping off during her watch. So as Waters was driving by a police stop where the officers were White and the motorist was Black, the legislative lioness darted out of her SUV to closely monitor the situation personally. Passersby just happened to drive by and…

George Floyd stared down the barrel of a police officer’s gun moments before he was killed by a cop who kneeled on his neck. New evidence from bodycam footage revealed that an officer pointed his service weapon at Floyd, according to the Star Tribune. The bodycam footage reportedly shows Floyd being questioned by Minneapolis police…

Tiger Woods, who remains the preeminent name brand in the world of golf, has demonstrated over the years that he has learned well from the Michael Jordan school of apathy and apoliticism. Keep quiet. Don’t speak out. Stack those chips. But after getting blistered in June for his take on the populous insurrection in light…

The Rev. Christoppher Stackhouse Sr. has always had a calling to serve a higher power while giving guidance to his community. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University and a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., he earned a master of divinity from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a doctorate…

Jay-Z‘s Made in America festival has been canceled. The 50-year-old hip-hop legend has made the decision to ax the popular event, which was due to take place between Sept. 5 and Sept. 6 at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia because of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. The hitmaker is instead encouraging everyone to…

The family of Black Minneapolis cop J. Alexander Kueng, who has been fired and charged with three other officers in connection with George Floyd’s death, have criticized his behavior. Kueng watched as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck until he died. Kueng’s mother, Joni, said it seems “unfathomable” that her son would be involved in…

Introverts protest the same way we do anything in life — with substance, with analysis and with reflection. Black introverts feel deeply about what’s happening in the world today but must know ourselves well enough to choose our lane of comfort or create a new one. What that means is we must use our voices…

One of the Minneapolis police officers fired for allegedly being involved in the killing of George Floyd probably thought he could do some anonymous shopping after posting his $750,000 bail. He thought wrong. J. Alexander Kueng was recognized while shopping at a Cub Foods store in Plymouth, Minnesota, a 20-minute drive west of Minneapolis. He…

After weeks of media coverage about rioters and looters who hijacked protests following George Floyd’s death, Washington D.C. held its breath as Juneteenth marches wound up their springs on Friday. No one needed to worry. It was festive, not angry. People sold T-shirts. One woman led hundreds down Pennsylvania Avenue while belting Beyoncé’s “Freedom” anthem…

Alicia Keys has released a heartbreaking new song about a mother mourning a son who has been murdered because of their race. “Perfect Way To Die” comes after the death of African American George Floyd — who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes during his arrest in Minneapolis,…