Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who felt the need to point their guns at a group of protesters who weren’t even bothering them last summer, plead guilty to misdemeanor assault and harassment charges and have lost the guns they used in the incident.
Here’s the thing: If white people insist on campaigning to preserve their beloved white supremacy arts and crafts projects monuments honoring the American tradition of keeping negroes in chains the Confederacy, the least they could do is keep their slavery memorabilia-loving asses out of largely Black neighborhoods…
We’re in a really weird place when it comes to the pandemic. With vaccines widely available, people in America are slowly but surely getting back to gathering, going out, and generally trying to establish a new normal.
Now I know what you’re probably thinking: Shanelle, what the hell is an NFT and why is Jay-Z suing over it?
One of the lines that the unseasoned among us like to repeat is that systemic racism doesn’t exist. While I would love to live in that world, the truth is the ongoing effects of systemic racism are easy to see if you’re actually paying attention. While one would hope that segregation is a thing of the past, that’s far…
