Current Events

Charlotteville, Virginia will take another step in the reformation of justice. The Charlottesville City Council just voted in an unanimous 4-0 decision to donate the town’s General Robert E. Lee statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. Robert E. Lee, who is most known as a pro-slavery advocate and military commander for the […]

A Tennessee woman who’s been in prison since she was 16 is scheduled to be released from prison next week. Cyntoia Brown, 31, received an August 7 release date after having her sentence commuted by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. Brown is currently incarcerated at Tennessee State Prison. Brown’s case gained national attention nearly two years […]

Following a weekend of attacks on Congressman Elijah Cummings, President Trump in an early Monday morning post redirected his rage at activist and MSNBC TV host, Reverend Al Sharpton. Trump spent the weekend attacking “King Elijah” as he nicknamed him on his “poorly run” district in Baltimore citing pest infestation, trash and crime as the […]