People in Downtown Los Angeles protest the brutal Police killing of George Floyd. – Los Angeles, California / USA – May 28, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Liz Roscher, AOL Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is speaking out about the tragic killing of George Floyd, who died on Monday after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his […]
A Dramatic Wide Shot in the Midst of People Outside in the Rain at the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct Protesting Police Violence after the Killing of George Floyd. – MINNEAPOLIS, MN – MAY 2020 (Shuttertock) Four Minnesota police officers have been fired after the death of a black man who was taken into custody and seen […]
New York City Nurses crying and cheering as people clapping hands in appreciation of frontline healthcare workers in Manhattan. 7pm tradition. Stay home. – New York City, New York / USA – May 26 2020 (Shutterstock) By Soon Kim, Newsweek As the U.S. continues to battle the novel coronavirus outbreak, fears over a second wave […]
President Obama’s Commencement Speech for the “Show Me Your Walk” National 2020 Commencement for HVCUs Watch President Obama celebrate America’s high school seniors as part of Graduate Together: America Honors the Class of 2020
United States Treasury Economic Impact Payment stimulus check for Coronavirus COVID-19 relief. Close up with check sticking out of envelope. – LOS ANGELES, April 28th, 2020 (Shutterstock) WASHINGTON — The IRS and Treasury have successfully delivered nearly 130 million Economic Impact Payments to Americans in less than a month, and more are on the way. […]
Protestors gather at the demonstration for Ahmaud Arbery organized by the NAACP of Georgia at the Glynn County Cort House. Brunswick, GA USA May 8, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Rashawn Ray, The Conversation Unsteady cellphone footage follows a jogger – an apparently young, black man – as he approaches and attempts to run around a white […]
By Marisa Penaloza, NPR Undocumented workers are holding car caravans in several states Friday to demand dignity and safe working conditions. Latinx and Black immigrant workers are being forced to choose between a paycheck and their health. Norma Morales is a 46-year-old single mother of two girls in New Jersey. She cleans homes. “I started […]
Reporters wear masks at the White House. Staffers will soon join them. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock By Adam K. Raymond, NY Mag “It is scary to go to work,” President Trump’s economic adviser Kevin Hassett admitted on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. After weeks of avoiding an outbreak as staffers continued to come to work in the cramped […]
In Chicago, 70 of the city’s 100 first recorded victims of COVID-19 were black. Their lives were rich, and their deaths cannot be dismissed as inevitable. Immediate factors could — and should — have been addressed.
By Duaa Eldeib, Adriana Gallardo, Akilah Johnson, Annie Waldman, Nina Martin, Talia Buford and Tony Briscoe, Pro Publica Illinois LARRY ARNOLD lived less than a mile from a hospital but, stepping out of his South Side apartment with a 103-degree fever, he told the Uber driver to take him to another 30 minutes away. Charles Miles’ […]
United States Census Postcard, Letter and Online Screen to complete the 2020 Census. – Detroit, Michigan USA, April 7, 2020 (Shutterstock) Mary Lehman Held, University of Tennessee The United States might not be able to get information about more than 10 million people in the 2020 census. That’s the number of undocumented immigrants living in […]