The city of Placerville, California, known as Hangtown by its residents, has voted to remove the noose on its logo. According to CNN, the city manager believes the logo is only about 40 years old. It depicts a miner and a noose hanging from a tree in the background. It represents California’s Gold Rush and
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A Texas school board faced a lawsuit after issuing an in-school suspension to an 11-year-old boy who came to class with braided hair in honor of his Black heritage. Hope Cozart said her son, Maddox, spent more than a week isolated in a cubicle at Raymond Mays Middle School, part of the Troy Independent School
Cariol Horne, a Black police officer in Buffalo who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a white colleague used a chokehold on a citizen, will be given back pay and a pension after years of fighting for restitution. A New York judge delivered the ruling on Tuesday (April 13). Horne was terminated after the
Daunte Wright’s aunt said she’s been receiving hateful emails since she started a GoFundMe page in order to cover her nephew’s funeral costs. Kelly Bryant told Insider she started the page to help the 20-year-old’s grieving parents. Bryant said she took the initiative “just so they didn’t have to think about it.” “So they could
A group of students at an Aledo, Texas school pretended to sell their Black classmates via a “slave auction” on social media. Now they’re being disciplined. According to the Star-Telegram, the Aledo Independent School District learned of an incident where the students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus cyber bullied and harassed students for being