Last week, a federal judge dismissed the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of Eric Logan after considering the city of South Bend, Ind.’s, motion to dismiss the case for nearly a year. Logan was a 54-year-old Black man fatally shot by a white South Bend police officer in June 2019.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A year after the country’s recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic slowed down, America’s economic recovery continues to be unequal in regard to race and ethnicity.
Due to “a pattern of egregious violations of principles of academic governance and persistent structural racism,” the American Association of University Professors is investigating University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Only a few days after a teacher in a Kansas City high school used the n-word during class, the Raytown school district is now investigating a second racial incident that took place last week, according to the Associated Press.
Hulu has just given a limited-series order to an upcoming adventure series, Washington Black, based on the international best-selling novel from Esi Edugyan, The Root has learned.