The Dixie Chicks have quietly changed their name, dropping the word Dixie, and rebranded as The Chicks on Thursday. Natalie Maines, Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Strayer changed their band’s social media handles to The Chicks but released no statement about the new moniker. The group also declared their support for the Black Lives Matter … Read more
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo has called George Floyd’s death at the hands of Officer Derek Chauvin on Memorial Day ‘murder’, insisting the killing didn’t result because of a lack of training. In his most damning declaration about Floyd’s killing yet, Arradondo issued a statement Monday night, insisting ‘Chauvin knew what he was doing’ when … Read more
An artificial intelligence-powered tool that transforms pixelated images into clear photos has been accused of racial bias. Called Face Depixelizer, the tool was released on Twitter for users to test, who found the technology is unable to process Black faces properly. The tool transformed a pixelated image of Barack Obama into a a white man … Read more
Video footage shows the moment a white woman launches into a vile racist rant directed at a young Black woman on a Manhattan street this weekend. The unidentified woman uses the N-word and calls the woman, Kathryn Graves, ‘ape’ multiple times during the 35-second video in Midtown on Sunday. Graves, a 27-year-old student at Yale … Read more
One of the four officers charged in the death of George Floyd told an angry shopper ‘I’m sorry you feel that way’ when she admonished him as he bought groceries while out on bail. J. Alexander Keung, 26, on Saturday was shopping at a Cubs Food grocery store in Plymouth, Minnesota – just one day … Read more
George Washington statue is covered in a burning American flag before being toppled by up to 40 Portland protesters in Oregon The George Washington statue was pulled down by a group of about 30 to 40 protesters in Portland, Oregon on Thursday night Footage of the incident on the eve of Juneteenth showed the Washington statue draped … Read more
Twitter users are applauding a wedding photographer for her response to a bride who demanded that her nonrefundable deposit be returned — because the photographer shared a Black Lives Matter post. Shakira Rochelle, a photographer in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, shared an Instagram post in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on June 5. … Read more
Black coronavirus patients in Atlanta were six times more likely to be hospitalized than white patients, new CDC data shows Researchers looked at more than 500 coronavirus patients at six hospital and associated outpatient clinics in Atlanta Nearly 80% of hospitalized patients were black, making them six times more likely to need hospitalization than white patients … Read more
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution to replace the city’s police department with a community-led public safety system. The move comes days after a veto-proof majority of the council voted to disband the police department after the country erupted in protest over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died … Read more
Trump lashed out again at Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Friday and said the Seattle ‘takeover’ had to end now Donald Trump has doubled down on his vow to ‘straighten out Seattle’ and its free autonomous zone, calling the protesters inside it ‘terrorists’ again who ‘burn and pillage’ the nation’s cities, and taking another swipe … Read more