ANALYSIS/OPINION: The Smithsonian’s budget for this fiscal year is $1 billion. Of that, $32.6 million is designated for the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Instead of police, we should be defunding this entity over its disgusting mantra of racism. In the website’s “Talking About Race” section, an article about…
July 17, 2020 | 6:09pm | Updated July 17, 2020 | 6:36pm Four people were busted for throwing blue paint on the “Black Lives Matter” mural on Fifth Avenue, cops said Friday. The incident happened around 4:15 p.m. near Trump Tower, and the four were taken into custody, according to police. The mural in Manhattan,…
May 16, 2020 | 6:38pm Enlarge Image Tarique Peters took a trip to Hawaii and did not follow the mandatory 14-day quarantine upon his arrival. Instagram The Bronx man who inflamed Hawaiians for not obeying a mandatory quarantine when he arrived in the Aloha State — and was arrested for it — is not getting…
New York City police busted a party of 40 people on Monday celebrating the unofficial holiday for marijuana on 4/20, a senior police official told NBC News.Police on patrol were flagged down by a concerned citizen for what seemed like a lot of people in a building on the third floor of a Manhattan commercial…
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…