A white man stabbed a Black man multiple times outside a Texas bar after making several racist comments, police said.Montana Amburn, 27, was taken into custody following the Wednesday night incident at Mickey’s Pub in Mineral Wells, about 50 miles west of Fort Worth. He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police…
The apparent hanging death of a Black man in a community in northern Los Angeles County has prompted questions about authorities' initial finding of suicide.The body of Robert Fuller, 24, was found near Palmdale City Hall about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday by a passerby, county sheriff's Capt. Ronald Schaffer said at a news conference Friday afternoon…
Protesters inside the self-declared autonomous zone in downtown Seattle booed and heckled members of the African American Community Advisory Council Thursday afternoon as the group told demonstrators they had "hijacked" the message of Black Lives Matter.SEATTLE OFFICERS FACE 'AUTONOMOUS ZONE' CROWD, SAY 911 RESPONSE TIMES HAVE TRIPLEDThe council works to foster relationships between the Seattle Police Department…
CLOSE Historical Confederate monuments are being taken down and defaced from protests over the death of George Floyd. StoryfulThe national protest movement that has erupted in the wake of George Floyd's death has rekindled a fire under the cultural tinderbox known as the American Confederacy. In the past week, public officials, military leaders and sports executives have made moves…
Across the United States, statues of Christopher Columbus are being taken down as protesters point to his role in violent colonization at the expense of Indigenous communities. The conversation aro…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…