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George Family Photo (TEXAS) — The family of a Black Texas high school student who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal lawsuit Saturday against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton for allegedly not enforcing the state’s CROWN Act, a law which protects from hair discrimination. The family filed […]
George Family Photo (MONT BELVIEU, Texas) — A Black Texas high school student has been facing an in-school suspension (ISS) for weeks because school officials said that his dreadlocks violated their dress and grooming code. Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been sitting on a small stool at school […]
LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fetal mortality rates declined among Black women in 2020 but were much higher than other racial/ethnic groups in the U.S., new federal data shows. A report, published early Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, looked at data from the National Vital […]
LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Maternal mortality rates doubled for every race and ethnicity in the past two decades, according to a new modeling study. Researchers estimated maternal mortality rates — which includes the death of women occurring up to one year after the end of pregnancy per 100,000 live births — from 1999 […]
Google Maps Street View (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — A Charlotte, North Carolina, teacher is suing the charter school he used to work at after he claims he was fired after parents allegedly complained about him teaching a fictional book involving a racially profiled Black teen. Markayle Gray, a former English teacher at Charlotte Secondary School, claims […]
Otieno Family (DINWIDDIE, Va.) — Ahead of pretrial hearings for five defendants charged with second-degree murder in the death of Irvo Otieno, Black Lives Matter RVA announced plans to protest outside the Dinwiddie Courthouse, calling for accountability in his death. Otieno, a Richmond resident, died in police custody in March after he was held down by […]
KGO (ANTIOCH, Calif.) — The mayor and police chief of Antioch, the California city facing an FBI investigation and a lawsuit over alleged civil rights violations by its police officers, agree on one thing – the police department has an issue with culture. “Good people can exist in bad cultures,” Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe told […]
ABC News (KEYSVILLE, Ga.) — For nearly three decades, Lucious Abrams says he has gotten letters from the United States Department of Agriculture promising to wipe out his debt –but for him and other Black farmers in the country, receiving relief from the federal government has been a difficult process. Every morning in the rural town […]
Courtesy Wilson Hayes (NEW YORK) — Weeks of shoulder pain landed a reluctant Whitney Nichols in urgent care. As a previously healthy 24-year-old Black woman, she pleaded for additional testing to uncover the cause of her pain. As a last resort, the doctor ordered a CT scan of her chest. The result, blood clots in both […]
Wanda Irving (NEW YORK) — Shalon Irving knew her newborn daughter Soleil for less than one month. Three weeks after giving birth to Soleil, now 6, Shalon Irving, who is Black, died from complications of high blood pressure on Jan. 28, 2017 . “My daughter had wanted a child more than anything on this earth,” […]
