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Image: Shutterstock Black journalists working at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette say they are being cut off from doing their job during one of the most pivotal news-making events in history—the ongoing protests for racial justice—on accusations that they are biased. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh says a number of black journalists …

Read: The enormous scale of this movement Journalists from across the country have reported that police officers are wearing masks less often than protesters. “The state is the one with the duty to protect public health,” Alexandra Phelan, a professor of global-health law at Georgetown University, told us earlier this …

A Black Lives Matter protest in Crown Point, Indiana is getting some attention after a line of heavily-armed white residents attempted to intimidate peaceful demonstrators. Earlier this week, a group of mostly college students had reportedly just finished marching and took a back alley bike path to get to their …

Demonstrators calling to defund the Minneapolis Police Department march on University Avenue on June 6, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images) Two major calls to action have emerged in the current uprising against police brutality triggered by the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor—not to mention the …

Having known Kramer only as a firebrand, I was first surprised by how long and delicate his eyelashes were, perched above his bright, brown eyes. He widened those eyes once for effect during our conversation, to punctuate a point, and in that charming gesture I got a glimmer of what …

Thomas Lane, one of the three police officers charged with aiding and abetting fellow officer Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s killing, was only on his fourth day on the job as a Minneapolis police officer when the incident occurred. Now, more information is available about his prior criminal record. Lane …

Photo: Shutterstock Breonna Taylor’s neighbor has filed a lawsuit against the officers from the Louisville Police Department who shot and killed the 26-year-old in her home in March, alleging that the cops also “blindly fired” in their apartment. Chelsey Napper, who lived next to Taylor, says that the police sprayed …

Justice Smith, the actor best known for roles in The Get Down, Detective Pikachu and Jurassic World, has come out as queer in a beautiful Instagram post dedicated to Black queer and trans folks. “We chanted ‘Black Trans Lives Matter,’ ‘Black Queer Lives Matter,’ ‘All Black Lives Matter’. As a …

📚 The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison 📚 Surviving the White Gaze, by Rebecca Carroll How art can double as historical corrective “The young women [Saidiya Hartman] writes about were stubbornly demanding new forms of personal liberation, simply by living their lives as they pleased.” 📚 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments,  by …

YouTube has announced its star-packed virtual commencement event will be delayed in respect to George Floyd.  The streaming platform was scheduled to broadcast its “Dear Class of 2020” event, bringing together more than 70 luminaries from across the country and even overseas, on Saturday (June 6). However, in observance of …