Former Tennessee Volunteers coach Jeremy Pruitt was slammed by the NCAA last week with a six-year show-cause penalty stemming from a recruiting scandal that included 18 of the highest-level infractions under NCAA rules plus 200 individual infractions. And now he says the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery motivated him to do it.
The man who shot Ahmaud Arbery received a sentence Monday in Brunswick, Georgia, of life in prison on charges of committing a federal hate crime.
The killers of Ahmaud Arbery “stand in for millions of Americans” nationwide who believe that skin color deems one “less worthy,” according to a recent
ABC’s “American Idol” kicked off the debut of its 20th season with a Black Lives Matter balled as star judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan listened to the George Floyd-inspired number.
CNN anchor Don Lemon said Wednesday on his show “Don Lemon Tonight” that racist Americans who felt free to speak hate were infecting the country.
If 2020 was the year of the riot, 2021 was the year of the jury trial — the year when Americans quietly and anonymously asserted the rule of law in the most direct fashion possible: by considering the facts, and pronouncing guilt or innocence.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Rep. Troy Carter (D-LA) argued that if the races in the Ahmaud Arbery case were reversed, “there wouldn’t have even been media about it. There would have been a conviction in the media and a
Many of us already believe we have justice — because we are the ones dispensing it, thanks to the American jury system.
National Urban League CEO Marc Morial said Thursday on MSNBC that the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse case sent a message of sanctioning “vigilanteism.”
Al Sharpton applauded “a jury of 11 whites and one black” after returning three guilty verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery’s murder trial on Wednesday.
The father of Ahmaud Arbery declared “all lives matter” shortly after a jury found Travis and Gregory McMichael guilty of murdering his son.
Tulsi Gabbard, a moderate Democrat, expressed support for the “guilty” verdict delivered in the murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery
“While the guilty verdicts reflect our justice system doing its job, that alone is not enough,” Joe Biden wrote in a statement after the verdict was announced.
Shortly after a jury found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan guilty for the murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp released a statement declaring that vigilante justice has no place in the state.
All three defendants were found guilty by a jury on the second day of deliberations Wednesday in the Cobb County, Georgia, trial for the murder of 25-year-old black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot to death while jogging early in 2020.
All three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on race.
The defense rested Thursday in the trial in Georgia of three defendants for the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, after arguing that he was killed in self-defense during a scuffle over a shotgun.
Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C. homicide detective Ted Williams said Wednesday on “Your World” that the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, Travis McMichael’s testimony exposed him as a vigilante who murdered “a young black kid jogging through a neighborhood.”
The prosecution rested its case Tuesday in the murder trial of three white men in Georgia who are accused of killing 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 while he was jogging — a killing they say was in self-defense, during a scuffle.
Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the two white men killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest were like white Civil Rights activists killed in the 1960s.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday evening in an open letter that she would not seek reelection this year.
Two women hope to create an all-black community in central Georgia as a way to deal with “400 years of racial oppression.”
McDonald’s has changed its Twitter display name to “Amplifying Black Voices,” adding a profile banner that lists Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd as victims of “racism” and “systemic oppression.” The
ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor on Wednesday announced that three men have been indicted on murder charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in coastal Georgia. Prosecutor Joyette Holmes said a Glynn County grand jury has indicted Travis McMichael, Greg
Trump is governing exactly as Americans would like him to govern. That is what Democrats, and the mainstream media, will never admit.
Lee Merritt, one of the lawyers representing the family of George Floyd, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the arrest of the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death only came about as a result of “chaos” nationwide.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A state investigator testified Thursday that a white man was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over Ahmaud Arbery’s body, moments after fatally shooting the black man with a pump-action shotgun.
Music and fashion mogul Kanye West has stepped up with a $2 million donation to support George Floyd’s family members, as well as those of Ahmaud Arbrery, and Breonna Taylor and businesses.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd “do not look like three isolated incidents.” And said that the country needs to
Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, Jr. said Wednesday on his network that Americans need to understand “profoundly racist our country is.”
The Justice Department has been “very professional,” “very active,” and “very responsive” in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, said Lee Merritt.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia man whose cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting helped reignite the case was charged with murder Thursday, making him the third person arrested more than two months after the slaying.
Video from various sources appears to show armed Black Panthers on Monday walking through the very Brunswick, Georgia, neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in late February.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said Attorney General Bill Barr “should resign” for dropping the case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and not investigating the police and district attorney’s office for their handling of the Ahmaud Arbery killing in Brunswick, GA in February.
Lions safety Tracy Walker says that he watched the death of his cousin on video, Ahmaud Arbery, more than 100 times, and is “pissed off.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) recently announced that it had arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly making threats towards supporters of Ahmaud Arbery that authorities have labeled a “hoax.” Rawshawn Smith allegedly created a Facebook profile under another person’s name to threaten a “mass shooting” of Arbery supporters. He has been charged with the dissemination of information relating to terroristic acts.
Sunday on MSNBC, radio host Charlamagne tha God encouraged blacks to buy a gun to protect themselves against “white ISIS” amid the Ahmaud Arbery controversy, who was allegedly killed by two men, Gregory and Travis McMichael, in Georgia on February 23.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms about the Ahmaud Arbery shooting on Sunday — and did not question or challenge her when she blamed the “rhetoric” of President Donald Trump for the shooting.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms addressed unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery being chased and shot dead allegedly by two white men, Gregory and Travis McMichael in Georgia on February 23.
Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the father of Ahmaud Arbery, called for police to arrest the Georgia man who filmed Arbery being shot and killed, USA Today reported Thursday.
