In the wake of the attack on the Capitol, Joe Biden and others are calling for a new law to prevent “domestic terrorism,” presumably by increasing surveillance and making harsher penalties for certain actions that the government defines as “terrorism.” While the...
On February 25, 1964, Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston in Miami to become the world heavyweight boxing champion. In the audience were his friends: Malcolm X, a prominent leader of the Nation of Islam; Sam Cooke, the popular singer, songwriter, and music producer...
Links between the police and the crack epidemic of the 1980s have been well documented in U.S. culture and by reporters exposing how much it had devastated the black community. These connections are also outlined in the new Netflix documentary “Crack: Cocaine,...
How much? $443,210,038.26 – that’s how much money was spent just on the runoff races for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, the most expensive senate race in U.S. history, with other estimates putting this amount at closer to $480 million. At nearly half a billion...
Following the protest and attack on the Capitol, leading social media companies purged individuals and apps from their platforms that were largely associated with the right wing. Given the widely felt shock, sadness and anger over what took place in Washington D.C.,...
