Secret recordings of a militant neo-Nazi organization called The Base reveal that the group is recruiting people with military expertise in the U.S. and Canada to train in military operations and prepare to take advantage…
Facebook doesnt care: Activists say accounts removed despite…
Mark Zuckerberg has championed Facebook’s commitment to free speech as a reason not to act on incendiary posts from President Donald Trump about the Black Lives Matter protests. It's a standard that activists and journalists…
Two Supreme Court jaw droppers: The LGBTQ decision…
WASHINGTON — Nearly all of the Supreme Court's recent rulings on hot-button social issues come out 5-4, so Monday's 6-3 vote declaring that employers can't fire workers for being gay or transgender is stunning enough.…
Los Angeles activists were already pushing to defund…
LOS ANGELES — A week before George Floyd was killed, Jane Nguyen created a bar graph. Nguyen, co-founder of Ktown for All, an activist group that advocates for the homeless, plugged numbers into Excel from…
Oscars ceremony will be delayed until April 25,…
The next Academy Awards ceremony has been shifted from Feb. 28 to April 25, 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC Television Network announced in a…
Supreme Court refuses to hear cases on qualified…
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear several cases involving a legal doctrine known as "qualified immunity," which makes it difficult to sue police for serious misconduct. Calls for the court to weigh in…
Netflixs new Dave Chappelle special 8:46 is no…
There’s nothing funny about the death of Black people. Dave Chappelle knows this, but his new Netflix special "8:46" is supposed to make us think as much as it makes laugh. The title references the…
George Floyds killing in Minnesota still hasnt gotten…
Anyone can see that the lynching of more than 4,000 people over the history of this country reveals a sin that makes a lie out of America’s claim of liberty and justice for all. Too…
Embrace the change: Some Black officers sidestep unions…
After the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and other recent cases of fatal police encounters, the public clamor for changing the culture of policing is running up against powerful opposition…