The first time Alvin Bragg began thinking about police accountability was not long after an officer put a gun to his head, when he was a 15-year-old in Harlem in the 1980s. Nearly 30 years later, as a prosecutor at the state attorney general’s office in 2017, Mr. Bragg found himself confronting the same issue, […]
Michael Bloomberg is donating a total of $150 million to Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions of higher learning to increase racial diversity among students seeking Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering and math. The effort was announced Tuesday in a joint statement from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Bloomberg’s alma mater and […]
ATLANTA — Family members of Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man fatally shot last month by North Carolina sheriff’s deputies, on Tuesday were given a second opportunity to view body and dash camera footage of his killing. After viewing a redacted but more extensive chunk of the recordings, they and their legal team came to […]
A prosecutor in Virginia has dismissed all the charges against a Black woman who was pulled over, handcuffed and arrested in March during a traffic stop, asserting that the state troopers who stopped her did so “without proper legal basis.” The woman, Juanisha Brooks, a senior video producer for the Defense Department, said that troopers […]
ATLANTA (REUTERS) – When the state of Georgia made Covid-19 vaccinations available to children as young as 12 on Tuesday (May 11), Atlanta residents Jenny and Jeffrey Brower rushed to schedule an appointment for their twin 13-year-old girls. As Georgians, they were among the lucky ones. Providers in their state, along with those in Delaware […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video Police Tasered a zebra that escaped and was running free near a school – further agitating the animal before its eventual capture hours later. Officers with the Cookeville Police Department in Tennessee responded to a call around 4am on Friday […]
A suspected murderer who was seen with a tiger that was freely roaming the streets has been arrested – but the big cat is still on the loose. Victor Cuevas, 26, was taken into custody on Monday afternoon after leading police on a high-speed chase with a tiger in his vehicle the previous day. Cuevas […]
He was not a sex educator, a sex worker or a political figure. No case law was established in his name. But to cultural historians, anthropologists, sex educators and members of the now sprawling alternative-sex community known by the umbrella acronym of B.D.S.M. — for bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism — or by the more […]
Six members of the same family who were shot dead at a birthday party by one of the relative’s boyfriend have been identified. Nuvia Marquez, 28, said she and her extended family were attending a joint birthday party for herself, her brother Melvin Perez, who would have turned 31 this week, and their mother, Joana […]
US regulators have approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12. US President Joe Biden said the authorisation is “a promising development in our fight against the virus”. “If you are a parent who wants to protect your child, or a teenager who is interested in getting vaccinated, today’s decision […]