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Photo: Shutterstock Black trans people have long stood at the intersection of racist violence and gender violence. In the last month, Nina Pop, a black trans woman killed in early May, and Tony McDade, a black trans man fatally shot by Tallahassee police last week, have become names to rally …

The documentary begins its story well before the alleged assaults, following Dixon’s early career and showcasing the passion and drive of an eager young woman. Raised in Washington, D.C., as the daughter of local politicians, Dixon said she became enamored of hip-hop because it “combined two things that I love—activism …

Kevin Hart is calling for people to stand up and speak out for justice in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. On Sunday, the 40-year-old actor shared a few tweets where he called for the arrest of all four former cops involved in Floyd’s killing, which happened …

Photo: DENIS CHARLET/AFP (Getty Images) TikTok, the popular video creation app, apologized for a controversy over the weekend involving the Black Lives Matter movement and those who aim to spread awareness about the senseless murder of George Floyd. TikTok users noticed that videos posted with the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and/or #GeorgeFloyd …

And the protesters who have shown up this week, in Minneapolis and New York and Los Angeles and Baltimore and many other cities around the nation—the majority of those protesters, at any rate—have shown up in ways that have been the opposite of chaotic. They have been expressing their outrage …

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Share0 Korboi “KB” Balla at the Scores Sports Bar (Facebook.com/twyana) The viral video showing a Minneapolis police officer suffocating an unarmed black named George Floyd by putting his knee into his neck has caused intense public scrutiny and has lead thousands around the country and the world to march in …

Photo: AP Photo (Darron Cummings) There are a lot of stories circulating about David McAtee, the 53-year-old black man shot and killed while Louisville Metro Police and the National Guard attempted to “disperse” a crowd who had gathered outside a Dino’s Food Mart in the early hours of Monday morning. …

Starting in the early 1960s, Christo and Jeanne-Claude explored ways to transform the feel and the meaning of objects and spaces. Christo described their works as “gentle disturbances” that rejected political or financial constraints. The couple’s shared ability to sweet-talk naysayers became a crucial part of their process. In 1962, …

The white bar owner who shot and killed a 22-year-old Black Omaha man on Saturday night won’t face charges, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Monday. Kline says Jake Gardner, owner of the bar The Hive, acted in self defense when he killed James Scurlock. According to the Omaha World-Herald: …