As gun violence in Chicago increased exponentially over the past decade, African Americans were overwhelmingly impacted. Local leaders continue to grapple with how to combat the spike while opposing plans by the Trump administration to deploy federal agents to the city.From Jan. 1, 2010 through July 8 of this year, Black homicide victims accounted for 4,374 of…
CLOSE Protesters toppled the statue of Francis Scott Key in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Friday, June 19. Historical figures tainted by racism continues. StoryfulPolice are investigating a homicide inside the Seattle autonomous zone. The shooting Saturday morning left one person dead and another hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.Elsewhere, a mural of George Floyd in…
A man was killed and three others were wounded Sunday in Humboldt Park on the West Side. The men were arguing with a group about 12:04 a.m. in the 2600 block of West Potomac Avenue when they were shot, Chicago police said. Alexis Perez, 41, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene,…
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…