According To African News, Gabon’s government announced a nationwide curfew and cut off internet access Saturday evening as voting in major national elections was wrapping up. The Central African nation’s communications minister, Rodrigue Mboumba Bissawou, said on state television that there would be a nightly curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. He said internet […]Read More
According To African News, An unidentified man set himself on fire on Thursday, in Mombasa allegedly to protest the harsh economic challenges facing millions of Kenyans. He had climbed on top of a statue in the middle of a busy roundabout before setting himself alight. The rising cost of living amid a business slowdown and […]Read More
A school that forbade female students from wearing skirts was shut down on Friday after students demonstrated a protest against the uniform guidelines, reports the Telegraph. Officials were called to the Banbury, Oxon school called The Warriner. The secondary school students opposed the “gender-neutral” uniforms and declined to attend class. The protest came in the […]Read More
As protests across the world continue as people stand in unity for black lives, one protest for the late Elijah McClain became violent and left some protesters injured in Aurora, Colorado. Aurora police are investigating a shooting that happened on I-225, while a group of protesters was marching for a call to justice for McClain. […]Read More
A black lives matter protest got violent as a Black man was allegedly thrown out of his wheelchair by police on Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles. The man in the wheelchair is Joshua Wilson. LAPD arrested him along with two others who interfered with the arrest of a man and two women who were in […]Read More
To commemorate the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and thousands of others, black people and allies are participating in #BlackoutDay2020 on July 7. The movement is uniting Black people in economic solidarity, and encouraging participants to support Black owned businesses. #BlackoutDay2020 was created by three Black Tumblr users Mars Sebastian, T’von Green, and Newkirk. The […]Read More
Diane Goebel has been charged with one count of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon after hitting a group of protesters, on Monument Circle on June 8th. Four people were injured during the incident. In an interview with News 8, Goebel said she was trying to drive around the protesters. “I did not hit anyone […]Read More
On June 3rd in Lower Manhattan, NY, the NYPD found three portions of hardened concrete that resembled Chocolate Ice Cream. This was near the scene where a George Floyd protest recently took place. The content was poured in to-go coffee cups and flecked with darker colored spots, according to the New York Post. There was […]Read More
Shaiitarrio Brown and his fiancé Brittany King were on their way home after driving for Door Dash on early Saturday morning, when they were sprayed with pepper ball rounds and tear-gassed by cops amid George Floyd protests. In the viral video, Brown was seen confronting the police after his car was hit with a pepper […]Read More
New York City looters were caught on video pulling up in a luxury SUV before stealing merchandise from an upscale retail store in Manhattan Monday night. The viral video was captured by Justine Miller and Keith Feldman. The footage shows a group of men with masks hopping out of the vehicle and running into the […]Read More
