Category Archives: Social
How Tulsa massacre spent most of last century unremembered
When the smoke cleared in June 1921, the toll from the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was catastrophic — scores of lives lost, homes and businesses burned to the ground, a thriving Black community gutted by a white mob.
UK: Anti-immigration protest blocks traffic in port of Dover
LONDON (AP) — Anti-immigration demonstrators protesting the rising numbers of people attempting to reach the U.K. by crossing the English Channel in small boats blocked trucks traveling to a cargo terminal in Dover on Saturday.
Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — There’s been undeniable progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city's Black community in the past 100 years. Then again, it’s hard to imagine it could have gotten worse.
Advocates in US push new efforts to bring back deportees
MIAMI (AP) — Jesus Lopez says he feels like a stranger in the place he was born. He's from Guadalajara, Mexico,
State GOP lawmakers try to limit teaching about race, racism
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Teachers and professors in Idaho will be prevented from “indoctrinating” students on race. Oklahoma teachers will be prohibited from saying certain people are inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously. T...
As South Carolina execution looms, firing squad debated
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It's been more than a decade since Randy Gardner's brother was the last U.S. inmate executed by firing squad, years the Utah man says have been filled with nightmares about what he describes as his brother's
London teenager charged in shooting of BLM activist
LONDON (AP) — A teenager from south London appeared in court Saturday on charges that he was involved in the shooting of a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Since the nose doesn’t know pot is now legal, K-9s retire
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Asking dogs to follow their noses won't work anymore in states that have legalized marijuana. As Virginia
Pressure for Senate rules change after GOP blocks 1/6 probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Democrats to end the practice of requiring 60 votes to move legislation through the Senate if they hope to advance President Joe Biden’s agenda.
Biden budget highlights: Lots of spending, taxing the rich
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's $6 trillion budget proposal offers major new initiatives like child and elder care subsidies, generous tax credits for families and the working poor, and free community college. It also promises politically freig...
