
Michigan state senator Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor) is pushing Senate Bill 611 to repeal her state’s stand your ground law in light of Trayvon Martin’s death and what she suggests are countless deaths that result from gun owners not backing down.
by AWR Hawkins25 Nov 2015, 5:34 PM PST0

Police are searching for a hoodie-wearing man who tried to kidnap a woman off the street New Orleans, then shot a Tulane medical student who tried to intervene to save her.
by Joel B. Pollak22 Nov 2015, 9:09 PM PST0

On the 47th anniversary of the landmark San Francisco State Strike, radical student movements, propelled by protest over the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last year, have again swept universities from coast to coast.
by Adelle Nazarian11 Nov 2015, 2:40 PM PST0

We’ve seen this before: An encounter between a black citizen and police is framed as an example of racial profiling. The story spreads like wildfire on social media and is pointed to as evidence of the need for immediate cultural change.
by John Sexton5 Nov 2015, 4:56 PM PST0

A woman who is a dean at a Texas university claimed she was harassed by white cops in her upscale community for ‘walking while black.’ The only problem, a police dashcam video tells a different story.
by Lana Shadwick4 Nov 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton met with Trayvon Martin’s family and other African American families whose loved ones have died in shootings.
by Michelle Fields2 Nov 2015, 6:04 PM PST0

Usher, Nas and Bibi Bourelly have dropped a highly interactive video for their new song “Chains.”
by Daniel Nussbaum22 Oct 2015, 11:14 AM PST0

Sixty years ago today, Emmett Till, a 14 year-old black teenager from Chicago whistled at a white woman in Mississippi while on vacation with his family. The woman was 21 year-old Carolyn Bryant. At the time she was working behind
by John Nolte28 Aug 2015, 7:54 AM PST0

In an August 23 Facebook post, Hillary Clinton contended that citizens and police were “much too eager” to use a gun, and she suggested the solution is to “rewrite” self-defense laws like “stand your ground” while making sure police officers are better “trained.”
by AWR Hawkins25 Aug 2015, 9:53 PM PST0

George Zimmerman has painted a Confederate flag, which he is selling to raise money for Florida Gun Supply—the store that declared itself a “Muslim-free zone” in the wake of the Chattanooga attack.
by AWR Hawkins18 Aug 2015, 6:52 PM PST0

Following the shooting that left two dead at a Lafayette theater during a July 23 showing of Trainwreck, comedian Amy Schumer received an open letter imploring her to join the fight for gun control fight. The letter also urged her
by AWR Hawkins2 Aug 2015, 7:52 AM PST0

Under the liberal policies of sanctuary cities – those city officials do not have to turn over illegal immigrants to ICE, which was the case with Lopez-Sanchez because ICE officials had requested that San Francisco police let ICE know when Lopez-Sanchez were to be released so that ICE would be able to take him into federal custody, but San Francisco refused to notify the federal officials.
by Alex Swoyer15 Jul 2015, 8:14 AM PST0

A nationally recognized black scholar is now criticizing Jay Z’s May 16 freestyle rap performance at Terminal 5 in New York City for its racial context.
by Kipp Jones22 May 2015, 9:58 AM PST0

In March, the Jay Z-helmed music streaming service Tidal launched alongside some of the industry’s wealthiest stars at an event that quickly turned off scores of potential subscribers.
by Kipp Jones18 May 2015, 9:22 AM PST0

Protesters are still intent on keeping the “#BlackLivesMatter” movement going strong, taking their demonstrations to California’s Central Coast region.. This Saturday, eight protesters were arrested after they blocked all four lanes of a Highway 1 and walked towards oncoming traffic in Monterey, California.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Mar 2015, 5:11 AM PST0

George Zimmerman criticized President Obama’s response to his acquittal, which he describes as “pitting Americans against each other solely based on race.”
by John Sexton23 Mar 2015, 7:15 PM PST0

In an interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas published on Sunday, Milwaukee Co., WI Sheriff David Clarke cautioned against making the likes of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown into civil rights figures, arguing doing so desecrates the legacy of
by Jeff Poor1 Mar 2015, 4:31 PM PST0

Thursday at the White House, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted a reception in recognition of African-American History Month. Obama said, “Today, on the third anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, showing all our kids, all of them, every
by Pam Key26 Feb 2015, 2:39 PM PST0

On February 23 Cornell University held an event to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry was the guest speaker, and during her speech she took time to say she hoped Trayvon Martin “whooped the sh*t out of George Zimmerman” before Zimmerman shot him in self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins26 Feb 2015, 4:53 AM PST0

The mother of Trayvon Martin says she’s disappointed that federal prosecutors decided not to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer with a hate crime for killing her son three years ago.
by Breitbart News25 Feb 2015, 4:02 PM PST0

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry expressed her hope that Trayvon Martin “whooped the sh*t out of’ George Zimmerman in a speech at Cornell University on Monday. In video of the speech released by the Cornell Review, she remarked “I hope he tried to
by Ian Hanchett25 Feb 2015, 10:14 AM PST0

George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation with the teenager, will not face federal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday
by Breitbart News24 Feb 2015, 12:40 PM PST0

On December 18 the 1st Texas Court of Appeals ruled that Raul Rodriquez will receive another trial because jurors rejected his “stand your ground” defense in 2012. The Court believes Rodriquez’s defense may have been rejected because of “confusing” instructions
by AWR Hawkins21 Dec 2014, 7:53 AM PST0

A Pew Research poll finds that the mainstream media and Democrats failed miserably in their coordinated attacks against the Bush Administration (and America) over Bush-era enhanced interrogation methods employed by the CIA against 3 terrorists to stop future terror attacks
by John Nolte16 Dec 2014, 10:23 AM PST0

No journalism outlet can be correct all the time. Writers will make mistakes, editors will miss them, and the endless deadline pressure means errors will slip through from time to time. That said, the nation’s supposed “newspaper of record” recently
by Breitbart News15 Dec 2014, 1:43 PM PST0