Jacob Thompson, the 27-year-old former Georgia Trooper who shot and killed 60-year-old Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis during an attempted traffic stop in southeastern Georgia earlier this month, has been fired and arrested. “The Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS) terminated Jacob G.
Namibia has rejected the German offer of compensation for the mass murder of tens of thousands of indigenous Namibians more than a century ago. Namibian President Hage Geingob rejected Germany’s offer to compensate the southern African nation for its mass killings. Geingob
A California Black social worker is suing American Airlines for detaining her after they claimed she had kidnapped a white child who was in her professional care. Court documents state Sharon Murphy is a social worker who has been employed with the
John Lee Cowell, the man convicted in the 2018 stabbing death of Nia Wilson, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, an Alameda County judge has decided. Wilson, an 18-year-old Black woman, was waiting to change trains
An orphaned Detroit high school senior earned more than $2.3 million in scholarships and was accepted by more than 40 colleges and universities. Ridgeley Hudson Jr. lost both of his parents before he reached adulthood. His mother died when he was 11
A Tennessee woman is facing murder charges for the September 2019 shooting death of her 5-year-old daughter. Robin Howington was indicted on a first-degree murder charge on July 1, as reported by the Knoxville News Sentinel. She is facing several other charges,
An 18-year old Black woman, Althea Bernstein, says she was attacked by four white men with lighter fluid as she was driving to visit her brother in the Madison, Wisconsin, suburb of Middleton. The alleged attack from the men, who were on
