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New York City police and prosecutors are investigating the death of subway busker Jordan Neely after another passenger restrained the man and held him in a chokehold. According to The New York Times, the 30-year-old’s death was ruled a homicide by the city’s medical examiner on Wednesday.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine and largely hidden in party drugs like cocaine. The drug has swept across the United States in recent years, especially in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to WPR, more than 500 drug-related deaths in Milwaukee County were tied to fentanyl.
Three and Four years ago respectively, sisters Jade Wagon and Jocelyn Watt were found murdered. Their mother, Nicole Wagon became an unexpected activist and advocate for MMIWG2S after losing her daughters. Nicole found out first hand how frustrating it can be to deal with authorities during the investigation of the disappearance or unsolved murder of an indigenous woman as she fought for answers and justice for Jocelyn and Jade.
59 years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, but victim’s families and survivors would wait 40 years to see the perpetrators of this crime behind bars.
The bombing occurred on September 16th, 1920, and would kill 38 people and injure hundreds more. Though suspicions of anarchist or communist terrorism ran wild, nobody was ever convicted, and nobody ever confessed.
It was the biggest trial of the Cold War. On one end, most American media supported the death penalty that loomed for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But sixty-nine years after the execution, the case may never be settled to absolute satisfaction, and scholars still debate whether Ethel died innocent.
Last Thursday, 42-year-old Columbus man Ricky Shiffer attempted to attack the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio. He posted an admission of his actions to Truth Social before being shot in a confrontation with police.
In 1992, accused of sexually abusing his daughter Jennifer Freyd during her childhood, Peter Freyd and his wife Pamela would go on to found the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. They claimed that Jennifer, and other survivors who recovered traumatic memories through therapy, could not be trusted.
A police raid conducted in Rio de Janeiro’s densely-populated Complexo do Alemão on Thursday resulted in at least 18 deaths. The community was raided by nearly 400 police officers in a several-hour operation.
In a long-fought court decision that disturbed international journalism groups today, Washington has won its appeal to return Assange to the U.S. for his 18 charges of espionage.
In the state of New York, serving alcohol to anyone in the LGBTQ+ community was illegal. This meant bars across the state, especially across New York City, were raised by police. With a blatant disregard for government rules, the Mafia held a near-monopoly on gay bars in New York City.
In 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for her protests against Puritan anti-Quaker laws. Her civil disobedience laid a path for the religious tolerance that the American government was founded on a century later.
On June 10th, 42-year-old Daniel Damien Lucey set fire to the front of Salem’s Satanic Temple building. He was arrested and confessed to the hate crime on the same evening.
Forty years after the Frostburg State University student’s brutal abduction and death, the non-profit founded by her family and supporters still works to bring justice to victims of violent crime across Maryland.
Shot in the stomach, 27-year-old Marshae Jones lost her fetus, and didn’t expect to risk losing her freedom as well. But when the jury dropped manslaughter charges against her shooter, 23-year-old Ebony Jemison, they indicted Jones instead for the crime of her own miscarriage.
On Sunday, District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez announced that he will dismiss the murder charge against Lizelle Herrera, stating that she “cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegations against her.”
The NAACP, or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has become a forefront civil rights group in the past century. To understand where they are today, we must understand why they formed in the first place-The Race Riot of 1908, and what their efforts have helped achieve over the past century.
There is a lot of fear-mongering about the rising crime rate in America. It’s imperative to specify that the largest spike is due to hate crimes. While those of us who don’t hold political offices in America may feel powerless in combatting these acts of injustice—we are not. Spreading awareness on social media, at rallies, and even to individual family members and friends is a start.
Twenty-two year old Amir Locke was killed last Wednesday by police officer Mark Hanneman, a member of the Minneapolis SWAT Team while they were serving a no-knock warrant. His death has sparked protests across Minneapolis.
