Facebook failed to remove three posts by the US President Donald Trump that “allowed the propagation of hate/violent speech and facilitated voter suppression,” causing concern among the civil rights community, a new report says. A fresh audit of Facebook’s policies and practices, commissioned by the world’s largest social media platform itself […]
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Mary Trump legal battles against her uncle might seem like a fun little political soap opera, but it’s way more than that, Mary’s lawyer Ted Boutrous explains on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. The attempt to stop her tell-all book before publication—“I think it’s really an effort to […]
Frederick Douglass was a black man in 19th-century America, a social reformer, outstanding orator and a national leader of the abolitionist movement that sought to end enslavement in the United States, after escaping from slavery himself. A monument to US anti-slavery icon Frederick Douglass in the city of Rochester, New York, […]
The ACLU and other groups have sued Graham, North Carolina, calling the city’s ban on “demonstrations of two or more people” while under a declared emergency unconstitutional. They’ve remained silent on similar laws, though. Graham violated protesters’ First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly and speech with the law, which […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis The collapse of the black family we alluded to in an earlier article is inextricably linked to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. In his sociological study “The Origins of African-American Family Structure,” sociologist and historian Steven Ruggles of the University of Minnesota documents that […]
The UK’s most senior civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill has been reportedly at odds with Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings, and was suggested by sources as a likely scapegoat for a spate of failings amid criticism of Downing Street’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. The UK’s most senior civil […]
__________Vigilant CitizenLebanon Was Torn Apart by a Civil War and the U.S. is Going Down a Similar Path In 1975, Lebanon descended into a violent civil war that destroyed this once vibrant and prosperous country. Here’s how the U.S. is following in its footsteps. 5 years ago, a horrific civil […]
The University of Oregon Ducks and Oregon State University Beavers football teams have mutually agreed to cease referring to the annual rivalry game as The Civil War. Because it’s offensive. Or something. SOMEHOW. GoDucks.com reports: The University of Oregon and Oregon State University Departments of Athletics have mutually agreed to […]
Three police officers in North Carolina have lost their jobs after accidentally recording their own highly inflammatory conversations, in which they are heard discussing “slaughtering n****rs” and calling for a new Civil War. Officers Kevin Piner, James Gilmore, and Jessie Moore were fired from the Wilmington Police Department on Wednesday, […]
Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera took issue with the Black Lives Matter movement and Democratic leaders on Monday night, grousing that they aren’t concerned enough with “black on black crime” and claiming there is a “ghetto civil war going on.” With protests still raging over George Floyd’s death and police […]
Cathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. The Black Lives Matter protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd have resurfaced the truth of America’s […]
Several civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), have urged corporations to boycott advertising on Facebook in July because they believe the platform has failed to address hate speech. The boycott campaign, dubbed “#StopHateForProfit,” calls on Facebook advertisers […]
United Skates, a 2019 documentary film highlighting the history of black roller skating rinks, opens with a shot that is all-too-prescient for this summer of Black Lives Matter demonstrations: police sirens. As black families, many of them with children, wait to enter a roller skating rink, they are monitored by […]
One of the world’s most famous porn stars, Riley Reid, has thrown her weight behind the Black Lives Matter protests, revealing that her great grandfather was honored by Martin Luther King Jr. for his civil rights work. Reid has been vocal about her support for the protests that have sprang […]
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Josie Johnson. Jeff Haynes/AFP via Getty Images; Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeff Haynes/AFP via Getty Images; Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Josie Johnson. Jeff Haynes/AFP via Getty Images; Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty […]
ROBERT STEELE: This cartoon was funded by the new project to help Main Street recover $200 trillion stolen by Wall Street — half via naked short selling (the sale of stocks that are never delivered) and half via money laundering. Other cartoons here. Re-Published with Permission. Visit Ben at https://grrrgraphics.com/. […]
Co-founder Matthew Iles announced the shutdown in a blog post, writing, “It’s with a heavy heart that I announce the end of Civil.” Iles, who told CoinDesk he had no further comment after the publication of this article, wrote that the company, which had previously inked partnerships with Forbes and […]
If you doubt that the current peaceful protests are being turned into riots, not only by over-zealous Israeli-trained police thuggery, but also by a number of white extremist Klan types urged on by Trump to start the ‘boogaloo’ then you haven’t been paying attention. Ian Greenhalgh is a photographer and […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a curfew for New York City and will double the number of police officers on the ground from 4,000 to 8,000 after Sunday night’s protests over George Floyd’s death devolved into looting. The city will impose a curfew from 11pm to 5am, Cuomo […]
An unknown culprit used the official Twitter account of the UK Civil Service to hammer Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The PM was defending his adviser, Dominic Cummings, who’s been reported to police for breaking lockdown rules. Cummings has been hounded by the British press and urged to resign since it […]
UK 22:53 GMT 24.05.2020Get short URL The now-deleted tweet was reportedly posted on Sunday soon after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson finished his daily Downing Street press conference on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, during which he defended his political fixer and right-hand man, Dominic Cummings, who is accused of defying […]
LA County will likely extend its Covid-19 containment measures until the end of July, a top public health official said, triggering a wave of outrage as residents declare “summer cancelled” and even predict riots in the streets. The three-month extension to the county’s “safer at home” order was announced by […]
Aimee Stephens’ Supreme Court case is over the question of whether employers can fire workers for being transgender. “We’re not asking for anything special. We’re just asking to be treated like other people are,” Stephens told The Detroit News last year. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP Aimee […]
When Russian quad-jumping prodigy Alexandra Trusova parted ways with her famed coach, Eteri Tutberidze, she was quickly denounced as a traitor by some of her former colleagues. But how did a tiny 15-year-old girl with astonishing technical potential become an issue of such dispute that she would go on to […]