Five students backed by the NAACP have filed a lawsuit against the Shenandoah County School Board for restoring Confederate names to several schools. On May 9, the school board voted to rename Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School back to Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School, respectively. The lawsu...
Berlin, Germany — AFP German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that serious criminals should be deported, even if they come from Syria or Afghanistan, after an Afghan asylum seeker allegedly stabbed a police officer to death. He also said that glorifying or celebrating acts of violence was “against all our values”, and could in...
A father was arrested for disorderly conduct after preventing his daughter from shaking hands with Black Superintendent Rainey Briggs in Wisconsin. The incident at Baraboo High school was captured on video. It shows Matt Eddy jumping on stage, forcibly dragging Briggs away, and shouting, “I don’t want her touching him!” His ...
Three Black men are suing American Airlines, claiming they were unfairly removed from a flight due to racial discrimination. The lawsuit alleges they were ejected from American Flight 832 on Jan. 5 without valid reason solely based on their race. The men were told a complaint about body odor prompted their removal, but they have […]
Four years after George Floyd’s murder, police brutality against Blacks remains a significant societal issue. On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly 10 minutes, ignoring Floyd’s cries of “I can’t breathe” until he died. This incident, witnessed b...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The United Nations has warned that the escalating fighting in Burma’s Rakhine State has forced around 45,000 minority Muslim Rohingya to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property. “Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent days by the fighting in Buthidaung and Ma...
United Nations, United States – AFP The UN General Assembly voted Thursday to establish an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. The resolution written by Germany and Rwanda received 84 votes in favor, 19 against with 68 abstentions and makes July 11 “International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide...
Ed Dwight, America’s pioneering Black astronaut candidate, finally realized his dream of space travel after six decades. Blue Origin’s NS25 mission, on Sunday, saw the 90-year-old soar into space alongside five other passengers. Expressing exhilaration post-flight, Dwight described it as “life changing.” Dwight’s journe...
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial pardon of Daniel Perry has ignited widespread criticism. Perry was convicted for fatally shooting Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster. His pardon was swiftly granted after a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. It restores the convicted murderer’s civil ...
Washington, United States — AFP A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Civil War Southern generals to two schools, four years after they were removed following a wave of protests for racial justice. The move by the Shenandoah County school board, in a five to one vote, bucks a nationwide trend […]
