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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 …

When a person thinks of luxury brands, names originating from Italy and France may be the first to come to mind. One HBCU graduate from Clark Atlanta University was able to find inspiration in design that led her to create her own luxury shoe brand. Keya Martin is the founder …

Screenshot: Twitter: @ericcervini After a year that’s seen white men increasingly using their vehicles to run into people whose politics they don’t agree with, I guess it shouldn’t surprise us that similar vehicular-violence is revving up in the little time left before Election Day. But the caravan of Trump supporters …

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Aim for the Center In that sense, nonviolence undergirds the second rule of a winning protest strategy: It must pull in the mainstream. A robust movement will be “diverse and multigenerational,” Erica Chenoweth told me, with children and grandparents, civil servants and judges as well as radicals. She cited the …