U.S. Senator Wants Answers From Adam Silver About NBA’s China Relationship
A U.S. Senator is demanding answers from NBA commissioner Adam Silver on his league’s relationship with China.
In a letter sent Tuesday to Silver, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) expressed “concern” over the...
NBA’s trouble with China, four months and counting
For someone who was raised in Italy, came of age in Philadelphia, and ultimately established himself as a star in southern California, it is telling that Kobe Bryant once referred to...
Mayor & Council Have Prioritized the NYPD Over Our Communities; Movement to #DefundNYPD Continues!
The City Council’s FY21 budget vote was a racial and economic justice litmus test and we now have the results. We commend the councilmembers who voted NO on the FY21 City...
Biden-Sanders Task Force Does Not Recommend Legalizing Marijuana
While the unity task force pushed Biden farther left on cannabis policy, the former Vice President still doesn’t support ending prohibition.
Joe Biden will not change his mind on cannabis anytime soon....
George Floyd: Timeline of black deaths caused by police
The wave of protests in the US over the killing in police custody of George Floyd are the latest outpourings of anger that have erupted after the deaths of black Americans.
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These 4 charts describe police violence in America
Protests over the death of George Floyd entered their seventh day on Monday as cities across the country imposed curfews and deployed police in riot gear to control demonstrators.
Floyd, a black...
Virginia’s Marijuana Decriminalization: What It Means And How It Works
It’s not the same thing as legalization, but Democrats say it’s a step on the way.
Marijuana has been an issue for Virginia’s General Assembly for decades, going back as far as...
Racist monuments fall: Watery end for slave trader statue in UK
LONDON (AP)—The toppling of a statue of a notorious slave trader in Bristol, a city in the southwest of England, on Sunday by anti-racism protesters was greeted with joyous scenes.
Demonstrators attached...
Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism
When the U.S. Civil War ended, Edward A. Pollard “of Virginia” immediately wrote a history of Confederate military operations—The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates—where...
Cuomo calls NYPD commissioner to apologize for criticism of cops’ handling of looting
Call it a mea Cuomo.
Gov. Cuomo called the NYPD’s top cop to apologize for saying police officers “were ineffective” in tamping down widespread looting during protests over the death of George...