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Texas Sheriff Who Thinks Officer Should Be Held Accountable for Killing Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt Also Wants Black Parents to Raise Their Kids to Respect Police A Texas sheriff had a few choice words for parents on social media in the wake of back-to-back shootings of Black teenagers at the hands of police. On Friday, April 23, Throckmorton County Sheriff Doc Wigington shared this message on Facebook: “In the news cycle over the last few weeks have been stories of young people being shot b...

BLM Protesters Rally for ‘Victim,’ Leave After Learning He Was White Lee Brown, New York Post, April 19, 2021 Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota dropped to a knee and set off to march over a fatal police shooting — only to return when they learned it was a white carjacker who had fired at police, according to reports. Dozens of people protesting outside Gov. Tim Walz’s mansion in St. Paul on Sunday were filmed by Fox 9 reporter Mitti Hicks as they knelt for a moment of silence o...

I could see things were “wrong.” I was oblivious to how deep the wrong is embedded and how thoroughly I am enmeshed in a web of racial distortion.

AP Photos A suggestion for cable news programmers: Instead of filling every broadcast with the latest presumptive police outrage, try covering the latest drive-by killings. Show us more of what’s really happening on the streets where we live. Newspapers and local TV are already on it. For example, on the Monday after police released video of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a Chicago cop, the lead headline in the Chicago Sun-Times read: “Girl, 7, fatally shot at McDonald’s...

This Minneapolis family celebrates the birthdays of all three of their children on the same day.

Douglas Andrews There was a speech last night, and it was a good one. It was presidential through and through; it was forceful, optimistic, and upbeat; it brought us together as Americans; and it reminded us of why ours is still the greatest nation on earth. Oh, and Joe Biden also spoke. To say that South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott merely upstaged the president last night is to miss out on the enormity of the task: The brief rebuttal from the opposition party always pales in compari...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker pitched his new omnibus road safety legislation as a way to improve the state's almost-worst-in-the-nation seatbelt use and cut...

Posted By: Jacob Weston April 29, 2021 @ 10:48 am KFDI National News By the Associated Press U.S. health regulators are pledging again to try to ban menthol cigarettes. This time the Food and Drug Administration is under pressure from African American groups to remove the mint flavor, which is popular among Black smokers. The move announced Thursday comes in response to new legal pressure from African American health grou...

. HARRISBURG — When Brandon Neely was pulled over in August 2020 for crossing into the area between a highway lane and exit ramp after leaving a casino in Dauphin County, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper asked if he could search Neely’s vehicle. Neely, knowing his rights, said no. But the trooper searched anyway, as Neely streamed video to Facebook Live. “If an individual who said they had nothing illegal in the vehicle says, ‘No, I don’t want you to search my car,’ it could be a...

The FDA has proposed a ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars of any flavor to curb smoking deaths, but some civil rights activists say it could spawn an underground market that leads to criminal charges against people of color.   Packs of menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are seen at a store in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Biden administration on Thursday launched a plan to curb smoking by banning menthol-flavored cigarettes and all cigars that a...