House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced last week that the House on Wednesday will take up HR 35, anti-lynching legislation introduced in the House by Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois called the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. Fourteen-year-old Till was brutally murdered in a racist attack in Mississippi in 1955, becoming a civil rights rallying […]
An officer tries to put out a fire at a police kiosk at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles during a protest last month over the death of George Floyd. Mark J. Terrill/AP U.S. Attorney General William Barr has repeatedly blamed anti-fascist activists for the violence that has erupted during demonstrations over George Floyd’s […]
Antioch City Council Votes to Remove Turnage from Planning Commission After Facebook Post On Friday, during a special meeting of the Antioch City Council, the council unanimously voted to remove Ken Turnage II from the city planning commission after a Facebook Post. In his Facebook Post, Turnage described he believed “Malthusian Theory” and said he […]
