“We’re filing a lawsuit here in Bridgeport to compel them to process this case, to protect this family, and to give them the equal rights they deserve under the Connecticut Constitution.” – Darnell Crosland, the family lawyer, to News 12 Connecticut By Andréa Butler In the early morning hours of December 12, 2021, 23-year-old Lauren […]
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By Andréa Butler On April 20, 2021, former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts for murdering George Floyd last summer. The world had finally witnessed the arc of the moral universe slightly bend toward justice. But the deep sighs of relief were soon met with a new trauma when word broke, just […]
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By Ava Marshall George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Sean Reed. Atatiana Jefferson. The names of just a small few of us killed at the hands of police. A few of the hundreds that have lost their lives to a racist system, more than a few of whom still have no justice. As protests occur […]
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By Andréa Butler When we first saw “Jordan Edwards” trending on our TL yesterday, we were expecting to click and discover yet another example of injustice in a long string of cops getting away with murdering unarmed Black people. But this time, our gasps, shouts, and tears were celebratory, rather than sorrowful because 38-year-old Roy […]
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“When you ready to talk, you talk. Don’t ever let nobody make you be quiet.” By Andréa Butler Two years ago, news first broke about how a YA novel inspired by #BlackLivesMatter — a novel that wouldn’t even be published until the following year — was already in talks to be made into a movie. […]
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By India Hill When a gang of publishers clamor for a book and that same book is optioned as a movie — before it’s even finished — you know it’s got to be bomb! That’s exactly what happened with The Hate U Give, its title directly inspired by Tupac’s iconic “THUG LIFE” tatt and his […]
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Last night, Justine Skye delivered an unapologetically woke rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner for the Nets’ opening game at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Following several bars of vocal perfection, Justine wrapped her performance by taking a knee as she sang the final word “brave” — joining a host of players, fans, and […]
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Racially motivated murders of Black people is a legacy that’s been passed down for decades in this country. And while there were no hashtags for Jesse Washington (a 17-year-old Black farmhand lynched by a mob of 10,000 white people in Texas in 1916), Anthony Crawford (a Black landowner lynched the same year in South Carolina), […]
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“The only way we save our communities and our struggle for freedom is to fight this violence with the raised clenched Black fist of resistance.” -BLM L.A. We already know the National Rifle Association (NRA) doesn’t care about Black lives — they’ve made that abundantly clear with their lack of response to Philando Castile’s murder […]
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By Ayanna Thompson Last night (May 17, 2017), Betty Shelby — the Tulsa, Oklahoma policewoman who killed unarmed Terrence Crutcher last year — was found not guilty of first-degree manslaughter. Last month, unarmed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was shot and killed by police in Texas as he left a house party with his brothers and […]
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