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Kendrick Sampson is speaking out after he was attacked by police during Saturday’s protests in Los Angeles. The Insecure star and How to Get Away With Murder actor was among those peacefully protesting police brutality and the recent killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans Saturday (May 30) …

Photo: Mandel Ngan (AFP via Getty Images) Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, says President Trump barely gave him a chance to speak during a recent phone conversation about the killing of his brother by police in Minneapolis. Philonise described his call with the president as “fast” in an …

A white man in Utah who thought it would be a good idea to stand up to a large group of protesters by threatening them with a hunting bow and shouting “all lives matter!” ended up being beaten and having his car torched and flipped over. Salt Lake City …

In that moment, Beatty told me, she wasn’t a member of Congress. She was just another black American attacked while protesting injustice—one of innumerable others across the long expanse of history. The events of the past week, she said, represent “a collection of historic anger.” I talked with Beatty about …

A former Iran president is going viral on social media after quoting Tupac while speaking out on the police killing of George Floyd. Yes, you read that right. Outrage over George Floyd’s fatal arrest has spread so far across the world that former Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken …

The NFL has issued a statement on behalf of commissioner Roger Goodell about the nationwide protests sparked by the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, purporting to empathize with protestors. “The NFL family is greatly saddened by the tragic events across our country. The protesters’ reactions to …

A pair of HBCU students were violently arrested by Atlanta police amid protests in the city late Saturday night (May 30), and the whole thing was caught on camera and aired on live television. Messiah Young, a Morehouse College student, and Taniyah Pilgrim, a student at Spelman, were driving …

Share0 Image: @cuppymusic/Instagram The continent of Africa has become a major global hub for entertainment content with the popularity of Afrobeats and other cultural trends. With superstars like Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, WizKid, becoming more and more popular globally, entertainment scouts are looking to Africa for new talent. Now, Apple …

Derek ChauvinPhoto: Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office (AP Images) Life comes at you fast. One minute Derek Chauvin was a horrible Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man accused of the horrendous war crime of allegedly trying to spend a counterfeit 20 dollar bill and the next…Well, …

As the legal scholar Orin Kerr noted, “Actually following a policy of ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts’ would violate the 4th Amendment, for starters.” He cited the precedent in Tennessee v. Garner. Evelyn Douek: Trump is a problem Twitter cannot fix That case originated in Memphis, where two …