Tag: African-Americans
Some Black parents say remote learning gives racism reprieve
CHICAGO — Before schools shuttered during the pandemic, Ayaana Johnson worried every time she dropped her daughters off at school.
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Man with neo-Nazi ties gets 3 years for bogus threats, calls
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A former neo-Nazi leader was sentenced to more than 3 years in prison Tuesday for his role in a conspiracy...
Court: Black man made to work without pay entitled to $546K
RICHMOND, Va. — After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without...
Deputy shooting becomes part of city’s long history on race
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was wrapping up when Dakwon Gibbs told a friend that...
Probation for ex-cop accused of kneeling on Black man’s neck
DENVER — A former police officer accused of holding two door-to-door roofing company salesmen on the ground at gunpoint and kneeling on the neck...
Belgium’s police-related racial violence concerns UN body
BRUSSELS — A U.N. rights committee expressed concerns Monday about police-related racial violence in Belgium and asked the country to allow thorough investigations of...
Black candidate challenges political status quo in Spain
MADRID — Two young Senegalese men met on a Europe-bound migrant boat in 2006, a year that saw a record influx of Africans to...
‘Black America’s attorney general’ seems to be everywhere
Ben Crump, the Rev. Al Sharpton says, is “Black America’s attorney general.”
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Deputy shooting becomes part of city’s long history on race
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was wrapping up when Dakwon Gibbs told a friend that...
Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens
OKLAHOMA CITY — As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also...
