An Upstate New York man has been arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief as a hate crime after law enforcement officials claimed he vandalized a Black Lives Matter street mural. According to witnesses Ian Rawlinson, 43, to Albany police on Thursday, Sept. 16, for defacing the Lark Street mural. Once officers arrived, Rawlinson already […]
Two statues were unveiled last week to honor George Floyd was vandalized in Brooklyn, New York and Newark, New Jersey. The statues were defaced while the nation was awaiting the sentencing of former Minneapolis officer Derick Chauvin for the murder of Floyd in May of 2020. George Floyd statue was unveiled on Juneteenth at 1545 […]
Racism is always on the job. In Portland, Oregon, the bust of a Black enslaved laborer named York, who accompanied Merriweather Lewis and William Clark on their expeditions throughout North America beginning in 1804, was defaced by a white woman on Tuesday. The incident that took place at Mount Tabor Park in Portland was caught […]