Black Mississippians Respond to the ICE Raids Conducted in Mississippi on August 7, 2019 A coalition of organizations representing Black People in the state of Mississippi respond to the ICE Raids Conducted in our state on August 7, 2019 We, as descendants of enslaved African people, stand here today in solidarity, in determination, and in righteous outrage at the unwarranted and heavy-handed actions of the federal government. On August...
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CJ Lawrence
August 10, 2019
Leaked documents first shared by The Young Turks – revealed that the FBI under Donald Trump has identified and prioritized “Black Identity Extremists” and “animal rights activists” as more dangerous threats to the U.S. than White domestic terrorists (like the two that shot up El Paso and Dayton this week and the bulk of the other 250 mass shootings this year). The Term BIE was coined in a document...
Angela Dennis
August 8, 2019
VIA PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Two women were stabbed, one fatally, right in front of a police officer late Thursday morning in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh. The incident was reported around 11:40 a.m. at 6th and Smithfield Streets, at a Port Authority bus shelter. The scene is not far from a Rite Aid, Burlington Coat Factory and the entrance to the Duquesne Club. According to witnesses, a least one...
BWNC Blog
August 8, 2019
By Jessica Love and Talibah Smith BWNC -August 7, 2019- Just hours ago, ICE raided Peco Food inc., a chicken plant in Canton, Mississippi and loaded buses of undocumented immigrant workers. Agents arrested 680 undocumented immigrants working at seven different processing plants across the state in an operation that has been underway for more than a year. The operation involved more than six hundred federal agents, approximately the same...
Angela Dennis
August 7, 2019
Cyntoia Brown who was granted clemency by former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, will be a free woman today. She will be released to parole supervision on Wednesday August 7, 2019. This comes 15 years after her arrest in 2004 for murdering a Nashville man when she was 16 years old. Brown was a sex trafficking victim when she killed Jimmy Allen during an exchange at his home while in...