Black Lives Matter peaceful protests during COVID-19 pandemic. – Atlanta, Georgia, US, June 1st 2020 (Shutterstock) By Elwyn Lopez, MSN Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms made the announcement during a briefing on the third night of scheduled protests in Atlanta Sunday night. It was around 9:30 p.m. Saturday when Atlanta Police officers were seen on video […]
Fired Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao. Photo Credit: Darnella Frazier/Facebook By Kimmy Yam, NBC News The image of then-Minneapolis police Officer Tou Thao, a Hmong American, standing with his back turned as a white officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck has ignited a discussion about how to approach the topic of anti-blackness in the Asian […]
Protests and looting in New York. Looting and rioting protests New York City over George Floyd death. Police and protesters in Manhattan. Police brutality. – New York City, New York / USA – June 1 2020 (Shutterstock) By Jamilah King, Mother Jones For nearly a week, protesters have taken to the streets in dozens of […]
Protesters gathered in downtown Kissimmee to show support for George Floyd. George Floyd died after a confrontation while in police custody. – Kissimmee, Florida – June 2, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Adam K. Raymon, NY Mag Two and a half months before Minneapolis police killed George Floyd in broad daylight, Louisville police killed Breonna Taylor in […]
Black Lives Matter protest on to denounce killing of George Floyd of Minneapolis on White House president Donald Trump – WASHINGTON D.C., USA – MAY 31, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Jonathan Chait, NY Mag Last October, Minneapolis Police Union president Bob Kroll appeared at a Trump rally. Clad in his red “Cops for Trump” T-shirt, Kroll […]
Hundreds took to the streets of Manhattan protesting against police brutality after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. – New York City, New York/USA May 30, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Josefa Velasquez, Greg B. Smith and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY State lawmakers in New York are inching closer to repealing a […]
By Janet Howard Botham Shem Jean, was a 26-year-old Harding University alumnus and an accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Jean, born in Saint Lucia, a was smart, law-abiding, God-fearing young man. He wasn’t a criminal. He wasn’t loitering on the streets, drunk, smoking drugs, causing a public scene or armed. He was at his home, sitting […]
By Erin Donaghue, CBS News The former Dallas police officer standing trial for murder in the shooting death of her neighbor broke down in tears as she testified in her own defense Friday morning. Amber Guyger began crying and trembling as she recalled approaching her neighbor Botham Jean’s door before fatally shooting him. Guyger has said […]
On July 12th, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Assembly bill 007797 to prohibit "race discrimination based on natural hair or hairstyles" in the state of New York. California passed its own legislation against natural hair discrimination on July 3rd, becoming the first state to ever do so; known as the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act.
Anti-Black racism is an invidious and persistent form of discrimination across the nation and in New York City. Anti-Black racism can be explicit and implicit, individual and structural, and it can manifest through entrenched stereotypes and biases, conscious and unconscious. Anti-Black bias also includes discrimination based on characteristics and cultural practices associated with being Black, […]
Botham Shem Jean. The New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) on Friday harshly condemned the killing of 26 year-old St. Lucian national and Dallas, Texas resident, Botham Shem Jean. Jean was shot and killed around 10:00 p.m Thursday night, September 6, 2018 in his own home, by a female Dallas police officer. […]