Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs agreed to provide the FBI with information about anti-fascist activists after an agent contacted him in late July 2020.
racism
Posted inNation & World
Congress faces pressure to address anti-Asian American attacks
The organization Stop AAPI Hate has received more than 3,800 reports of incidents ranging from shunning and verbal harassment to assault from March 2020 to Feb. 28.
advertisement
Posted inNation & World
Onlookers’ anger grew as Floyd stopped moving, say witnesses in ex-officer’s trial
The teenager who shot the video of the arrest that set off nationwide protests testifies that then-Officer Derek Chauvin gave the crowd a ‘cold’ and ‘heartless’ stare.
Posted inNation & World
Video shows vicious attack on Asian American woman in New York
The New York City Police Department says an Asian American woman was attacked Monday by a man who repeatedly kicked her in front of witnesses who apparently stood by.
Posted inNation & World
Witness in ex-officer’s trial recounts seeing George Floyd ‘slowly fade away’
Prosecutors at the trial of Derek Chauvin played a video showing the white former Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds as the Black man pleaded for his life and went limp.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
South Portland families urge schools to work harder on race issues
Some families say they want to see more urgency and transparency around racial equity work amid incidents that include a teacher’s use of a racial slur in a classroom last year.
Posted inNation & World
Floyd case spurred broad push for change, but how far that will go remains unclear
As Minneapolis braces for Monday’s opening statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death, the world does as well.
Posted inNation & World
Charlottesville mayor’s poem about city, racism ‘hits nerve’
The poem by Nikuyah Walker, the first Black woman elected mayor of the Virginia city, which has been home to a slave-owning U.S. president and a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017.
Posted inNation & World
In show of bipartisan solidarity, 26 governors and more than 60 former officials condemn anti-Asian attacks
Officials across the last 6 presidential administrations signed on to the effort.
Posted inThe Forecaster
Letter: Does Balentine agree with anti-racist developments?
John Balentine’s obsession with the buzz term “cancel culture” plays well to his and Tucker Carlson’s base, who don’t want to be told that they can’t say or do whatever they want, regardless of how racist it may be. The award-winning college textbook “The Growth of the American Republic” (1930) opened its chapter on slavery […]