While BLM vows to advocate for Afro Cubans, the country has battled with police brutality against Black and brown people, too. In June 2020, just weeks after the killing of George Floyd on U.S. soil, 27-year-old Hansel Hernandez was shot and killed by police in Cuba, Reuters reported. Hernandez was accused of vandalizing and was […]
Simone Biles congratulated Jordan Chiles on making the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team over the weekend after the athlete nearly quit the sport three years ago. Biles greeted Chiles, 20, with a huge hug after the gymnast placed third in the 2021 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics trials Sunday night. Simone Biles hugging Jordan Chiles and saying “I’m […]
Update (March 28, 2021): The lawyers of two men who were acquitted after terrorizing a Black teenager and his mother at their home last year are now demanding an apology, saying the family wrongly painted them as racists. Monica Shepard said her family will not talk to Austin Wood and Jordan Kita, an off-duty officer who […]
A Mississippi middle school is facing backlash after a teacher assigned an essay asking students to pretend they’re slaves. The incident took place at Purvis Middle School in Lamar County, Mississippi, as part of what was supposed to be a lesson on the “atrocities and negatives of slavery,” WDAM7 reported. Titled the “Slave Letter Writing Activity,” the assignment prompted the students to […]