“Getting a pedestrian ticket can damage one’s credit or lead to a license suspension. And in Jacksonville, Florida, they are disproportionately issued to black people, according to a joint investigation by the Florida Times-Union and ProPublica. Topher Sanders of ProPublica, who co-authored the report, joins Hari Sreenivasan for more.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
Confederate Lives Matter? Police in Maryland say that’s the handle some high school students used on social media to threaten another student. Police in Anne Arundel say the students at Southern High school posted obscene and violent messages on Snapchat aimed at a 15-year-old transgender student. One picture showed a student wearing what appears to…
Race and Racism has been in the American DNA from our beginning. One cannot speak about our Original Sin without it causing rancor, thumb twiddling, deep sighs, and angry fingerpointing. This is one more effort to “discuss” the issue of race and racism in America but this time it’s about it in the the Trump era….
The Charlottesville white nationalist rally, along with the associated deaths and injuries linked to it, follow a nationwide increase in hate crimes in the past year. Within 10 days of Donald Trump’s election, the Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 900 bias-related incidents against minorities. The center’s president Richard Cohen joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss these…
Roland Martin said on NewsOne Now: President Donald Trump was missing in action. He embarrassed himself, his administration and the nation with one of the most soulless, gutless, shameful and despicable statements ever utter by an American president after a tragedy. _ Listen, download and subscribe to the ALL NEW Roland Martin Unfiltered Audio Podcast…