Pretty Much Everyone Wants the Democrats to Reject the TPP
Bernie Sanders and his supporters are currently intensifying their push to include opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the 2016 Democratic Party platform. In the wake of FBI director...
View ArticleHere Are the Names of the Police Officers Who Killed Alton Sterling in Viral...
The Baton Rouge Police Department has publicly named the two officers who were shown killing Alton Sterling in a cellphone video that has gone viral. Officer Blane Salamoni, a four-year veteran of the...
View ArticleDrake Just Responded to Alton Sterling’s Killing in a Powerful Post
Toronto rapper Drake was so shaken by the video of Alton Sterling’s killing that he was moved to post an open letter on Instagram to his 25 million followers. In the post, which has been liked over...
View ArticleHere Are 7 White People Who Pointed Guns at Cops and Didn’t Get Killed
In the wake of the videotaped police slayings of two black men on opposite sides of the country this week, it’s worth noting that white people, even when armed, get kid-gloves treatment from police in...
View ArticleThe Most Powerful Explanation of Police Killings I Have Ever Seen (VIDEO)
In a recent appearance on Democracy Now!, Marc Lamont Hill, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College, summed up the reason police are more likely to kill black people...
View ArticleHeavily Armed White Man Arrested Alive After Shooting at Police Officer
The racist double standard in American law enforcement continues. 62-year-old William Bruce Ray, who is white, was arrested alive Tuesday afternoon by police in Wake County, North Carolina, despite...
View ArticleA Black Man Was Just Found Hanging from a Tree in Atlanta
After a spate of police killings of black men this week, a possible hate crime has surfaced in Atlanta. Early Thursday morning, a black man was found hanging from a tree in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park....
View ArticleHow Protesters Actually Helped the Dallas Police
After snipers killed five police officers last night in Dallas, the right wing has rushed to blame Black Lives Matter protesters for the officers’ deaths. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Both...
View ArticleNYPD Officer Kills Unarmed Black Man in Road Rage Incident (VIDEO)
Newly released video footage given to the New York Post shows a New York City police officer gunning down a black man during a road rage incident. The Post exclusively obtained the footage, which shows...
View ArticleProtesters Clash with Police After Shutting Down Minnesota Highway
As the outrage continues over the death of Philando Castile, who was killed by a St. Anthony police officer earlier this week, hundreds of protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shut down both lanes of...
View Article4 Facts Debunking the Media’s Lies About the ‘War on Cops’
2016 is already on par to be one of the deadliest years on record for civilians killed by police. But while the media would have us believe that there’s a “war on cops,” and while Republicans suggest...
View ArticleProtesters Form Giant Peace Sign After Shutting Down LA Freeway
Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the 405 freeway in Los Angeles Sunday night while protesting the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police earlier this...
View ArticleVideo: White Boy Privilege Is Everything (8th Grader Wins First Place for...
Royce Mann, a white eighth-grade student and rising acting star, recently brought the house down in a passionate slam poetry performance about white privilege that is spreading like wildfire. Mann’s...
View ArticleGovernor Signs New Law Making Police Cam Footage Off Limits to Public
In the midst of national outrage over the lack of accountability for police officers, North Carolina is unabashedly moving in the opposite direction. On Monday, Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill...
View ArticleDonations to Jill Stein Explode Nearly 1000% Since Sanders’ Endorsement of...
Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential nominee, is seeing an unprecedented surge of energy for her campaign in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Stein, who is...
View ArticleJill Stein Pledges to Grant Edward Snowden a Full Pardon and Appoint Him to...
Edward Snowden, America’s #1 fugitive, would not only get a full pardon under a Jill Stein administration, but would get a promotion to one of the highest levels of government. “[Snowden] has done an...
View ArticleJill Stein Just Picked Up Her First Major Endorsement
Civil rights activist, actor, and celebrated academic Dr. Cornel West has switched from supporting Bernie Sanders to Jill Stein after Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton. In a scathing op-ed about...
View ArticleThis was supposed to be Hillary Clinton’s best week — How it turned into a...
This was supposed to be the defining week that Hillary Clinton united the Democratic Party around her candidacy and sealed up the nomination two weeks before the Democratic National Convention. But...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Denied DNC Rally Permit
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is getting no affection from the city of brotherly love. The Sanders campaign’s application for a permit to hold a rally at Ashburn Field, a baseball field in FDR park, on...
View ArticleCleveland Police Call for Emergency Suspension of Open Carry Laws During...
In anticipation of a week of chaos, the Cleveland Police Department is asking the Governor of Ohio for permission to suspend the state’s open carry laws during the Republican National Convention. “We...
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