Month: June 2020

Confronted by an angry mob hurling rocks and death threats, 15-year-old Minnijean Brown-Trickey pushed her way through the crowd, only to be stopped by National Guardsmen. The year was 1957. And behind the guardsmen stood Little Rock Central High School, which had resisted desegregation since the Supreme Court ruled public school segregation unconstitutional three years

Enough. That’s the message from many of the protesters who have filled American cities for nearly two weeks, demanding justice for the death of George Floyd and seeking to end a litany of police killings of black Americans. The protests have rippled across the United States and throughout the world, with activists streaming through the

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A 29-year-old British man has been rescued, after being trapped down a well on the Indonesian island of Bali for six days. Rescuers pulled Jacob Matthew Roberts out of the well in Pecatu Village on Saturday, Krisna Maharta, public relations officer for the region’s search and rescue agency, Basarnas Bali, told CNN. Roberts fractured his

The FBI is investigating whether the shooting deaths of two California officers are related, including the Saturday shooting of a Santa Cruz County deputy. A sergeant with the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office was killed in a shooting in Ben Lomond Saturday, and two other officers were hurt during an ambush involving a suspect with explosive

By now, it seems almost everyone with a Netflix account has watched “Tiger King” — or at least seen the memes. But for a docu-series that takes place at multiple animal parks and literally has the word “tiger” in the title, it didn’t tell fans much about, uh, actual tigers or their conservation. Joe Exotic

A retired US Navy captain who used derogatory language and racial slurs during a conversation with his wife that was accidentally live streamed on Facebook says he is “mortified” and working to be a better person. Scott Bethmann resigned from the US Naval Academy Alumni Association board after he accidentally streamed the conversation with his

A police officer in Fairfax County, Virginia, faces up to three years in prison in connection with his arrest and use of a stun gun on a black man who cried out, “I can’t breathe.” Fairfax County police released bodycam footage of the incident, which appears to show Officer Tyler Timberlake using a stun gun

Austin, Texas, police have launched an investigation into why officers fired “less-lethal” beanbag munition at a crowd transporting an injured man. Justin Howell, a 20-year-old student at Texas State University, was protesting George Floyd’s death outside police headquarters a little after 11 p.m. on May 31, Austin Police Department Chief Brian Manley said in a

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette leadership is accused of removing a black journalist from protest coverage after she posted a tweet about looting last Sunday, the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh said in a statement. The paper has also banned others in the newsroom who spoke out against the paper’s decision, they said. “The move stifled one of the

Banksy, perhaps the most well-known anonymous artist and social critic in the world, is showing his support for the Black Lives Matter movement with a new piece of art and a stark message: “People of Colour are being failed by the system.” Black Lives Matter protests have spread across the globe for the past two