The Black Minnesota man who died after he was seen on video begging for his life as a White police officer kneeled on the back of his neck for several minutes has been identified as George Floyd. Attorney Benjamin Crump—who has represented the families of several victims in civil …

A protester dressed as a character from the novel-turned-TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” walks into the Senate Hart building on October 4, 2018.Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS (Getty Images) I will never understand why some white people (notice I didn’t say “all white people,” so please don’t email me explaining how you …

Read: How America handles catastrophe State and local emergency planners must rethink any task involved in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from storms that requires physical proximity to other people. First, there’s the question of evacuations. Even under normal circumstances, deciding whether to recommend or order an evacuation requires …

The Minneapolis Police Department is under fire after an officer continuously held his knee on a black male suspect who repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. The man later died. The police brutality incident—which was captured on video by a bystander—occurred on Monday (May 25) while police were responding to …

Social media is outraged by a video showing a white woman in New York City’s Central Park threatening to call the cops on a Black man after he asked her to leash her dog. While threats from white people is nothing new to most Black folks, what stands out about …

Share0 (Image: @wmlawschool/ Instagram) The Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary based in Williamsburg, Virginia, is home to the oldest law school in the country and a part of the second oldest college and the first university to open in the United States. The legendary …

Screenshot: The Atlantic My daughter, who is 4 years old, is currently in a superhero phase. Yesterday, for instance, I spent much of the day in an extended, five-hour-long riff with her where she’d approach me every 40 minutes or so to share she’d discovered a new superpower, and then …

Vanessa Bryant’s youngest child, Capri, reached a major milestone on Sunday! The 11-month-old took her first steps, and the momentous occasion was captured on video. Bryant shared the video on Instagram, along with the caption, “My baby!!!! So proud of my Koko Bean ❤️🤩Capri took her first steps from her …

Another film that debuted last month, Selah and the Spades, is a less intimate work, but one that takes on the timeless subject of high-school hierarchies in a way that rivals Mean Girls. The queen-bee lead of Selah rejects the kinds of close ties that shape Ellie and Devi, because …

Yovanna Momplaisir made her Real Housewives of Atlanta debut as NeNe Leakes’ friend. Now, the two are heated rivals and things don’t look like they’ll be getting any friendlier between the two any time soon. Amid news that she’s coming back to RHOA as a peach-holding cast member (not just …