Screenshot: Detroit Free Press Two poll challengers—one wearing a Halloween mask, the other refusing to wear her face mask properly—were kicked out of a Detroit polling station on Monday as workers began processing absentee ballots from the city. As the Detroit Free Press reports, a man wearing an all-white horror-movie …

The presidential  election is tomorrow, November 3. No one knows what is going to happen, but either way Dave Chappelle will be there to riff on the outcome as this week’s host of Saturday Night Live. According to Variety, the comedy legend will host SNL this Saturday (November 7). No …

3. SOUTH CAROLINA: THE NEW SOUTH TEST Historically, Democrats have written off states in the Deep South as unwinnable. But Stacey Abrams’s electoral prowess in Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race showed the party that their traditional logic might be misguided. Jaime Harrison, a young Black Democrat in South Carolina, is …

A group of protesters expressed outrage Saturday (Oct. 31) after police in Graham, North Carolina, used pepper spray to break up a march to the polls on the state’s last day of early voting.  The “I Am Change” march was marketed as an event to honor of Black people whose …

The U.S. Supreme Court tossed an appeals court ruling allowing Black Lives Matter protester and activist DeRay McKesson to be sued by a police officer who was injured by an unknown assailant. In an unsigned order, the justices wrote that the appeals court should’ve received guidance from a Louisiana state …

Photo: vesperstock (Shutterstock) Many people were horrified this weekend after seeing images of a group of people marching to go vote in North Carolina last weekend being pepper-sprayed and arrested by police. Rev. Greg Drumwright, one of the leaders of the march, has announced another event for Election Day. ABC …

The Biden campaign canceled a get out the vote rally Friday (October 30) in Austin after its bus was reportedly surrounded by a caravan of Trump supporters who displayed signs and other paraphernalia. The incident occurred as the Joe Biden campaign bus was traveling on I-35 in Hays County between …

Over the weekend, in Graham, North Carolina, a Black Lives Matter rally was broken up by police officers who then attacked the crowd of protesters using pepper spray, according to CNN. The “I Am Change” march was intended to be a “march to the polls” in honor of the Black …

I know, I know…between the terror of living in the epicenter of a global pandemic and the justifiable fear of voter suppression—or worse, no immediate escape from the horror film that has been a Trump presidency—Halloween hit different this year. I mean, who needs it when we’re living in an …

Training materials for Kentucky State Police cadets once included quotes attributed to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. A slide show instructed the future troopers to be warriors who “always fight to the death” and to be a “ruthless killer.” This information came to light through …