Officer Garrett Rolfe faces 11 charges including felony murder in the killing of Rayshard Brooks in a Southwest Atlanta Wendy’s. Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced charges today against Officers Garrett R...
As major cities in the United States are in utter and complete chaos over the continued failure to protect or defend the lives of unarmed black folks killed by rogue police officers and vigilantes, a social media campaign emerged ...
Writing for Courier Newsroom, The Burton Wire’s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton discusses the misplaced anger surrounding the national uprisings against police brutality in response to the killing of George Fl...
OpEd written by Dr. Monica Ndounou It is hard not to notice how white theaters profit from staging Black death and trauma but say nothing in response to anti-Black violence like the lynching of George Floyd and multiple attacks ag...
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was killed while jogging through a mostly white neighborhood in Brunswick, GA. Arbery who was a standout athlete and once dreamed of a career in the NFL, was by all acc...
(April 17) – Hollywood’s powerhouse writer and director Kenya Barris is at it again with #blackAF, debuting today on the streaming giant Netflix. The acclaimed showrunner who brought the juggernaut sitcom Black-ish to ...
Fresh from our, ‘What Now?” file, Okay Africa is reporting Africans in China are being forcefully evicted from their housing because they are blamed or what we would call scapegoated for spread of the Coronavirus also ...
April 9, 2002 (Sacramento) – The California Department of Public Health released race and ethnicity data related to COVID-19. The information, representing 37% of COVID-19 cases and 39% of deaths, shows the race and ethnicit...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard the most recent high-profile case of the killing of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, who was shot and killed by former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, whil...
In 1963, 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. ’63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest Northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around ...
