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DeRay McKesson was a lead full-time paid protester in Ferguson, Missouri during the riots and looting. He later was became a lead activist in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray riots.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday encouraged protesters not to allow the "heinous violence" that occurred in Dallas to silence their "important" voices. Five police officers died and seven more were wounded in an ambush during a peaceful rally in Dallas on Thursday to protest the deaths of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota who were shot dead by police this week.
After weeks of focusing on a group of current and former elected officials in his search for a running mate, Donald Trump is increasingly intrigued by the idea of tapping retired Lt.
'When he came back from Afghanistan, he got in touch with some bad folks and went all Black Panther,' the man, who asked to remain anonymous, said. 'He was absolutely normal, a really good friend.
Others compared the current climate to 1968, a tumultuous year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, then a candidate for president, as well as riots in major cities and continuing friction over the Vietnam War. "We had the riots, we had cities burning, the rise of the Black Panther Party, turbulence in the country," said broadcaster and writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
Sen. Bernie Sanders' effort to shape the Democratic Party's election platform scored a major victory Friday with the approval of an amendment calling for increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. The self-described "democratic socialist" from Vermont had repeatedly called for the increase during his surprisingly strong campaign for the Democratic nomination.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump canceled two scheduled campaign events in Miami Friday out of respect for the fallen officers in Thursday's massacre in Dallas of police officers. Trump also issued a statement in which he called the massacre "an attack on our country" and spoke out on Twitter.
Beyonce's Super Bowl halftime performance was a cop-hating political statement in support of the Black Panthers - a Marxist group whose leader Huey Newton was was arrested for shooting Police Officer John Frey . Beyonces dancers in black berets at #SB50 paying homage to the Black Panthers 50 years after their #formation in '66 pic.twitter.com/YXpzBkkm6s Last night Beyonce posted an anti-police screed on her website just hours before the deadly protest shooting in Dallas that left five police officers dead .
The Black Power Political Organization Facebook page took credit for the deadly police shooting last night in Dallas. The group claimed their sniper team took down "five police officers."
Donald Trump, in a sharp shift in strategy, is now refusing to appear on many television outlets, and top advisers who want to limit his exposure are no longer notifying him of every interview request. According to sources familiar with the campaign, one faction is worried that the constant rounds of interviews entail too much risk of the candidate making mistakes or fanning minor controversies, even though his mastery at driving the media agenda helped power his Republican primary victory.
Texas news anchor Gordon Collier making fun of Hillary Clinton. [YouTube XuH-O9ow] A news anchor in Texas was caught on-air Wednesday night mocking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's voice while he thought he was off-camera.
House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on Thursday that there is a "double standard" with Hillary Clinton, adding that if an "average Joe" did what she did, they would be in "handcuffs" and in "jail." Host of NBC's "Today" show Savannah Guthrie asked Chaffetz, "Do you believe in [Comey's] impartiality or do you think he is biased? "I think the FBI director is a man of integrity," Chaffetz said.
NOVEMBER 1: Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers throws a pass against the St. Louis Rams in the second quarter at the Edward Jones Dome on November 1, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri. The dual-threat quarterback posted a video of the shooting to Instagram with the caption, "This is what lynchings look like in 2016! Another murder in the streets because the color of a man's skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us.
Ryan: GOP will hold hearings on Clinton probe - Republicans will hold hearings to learn more about the FBI's decision to not recommend criminal charges for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton - (R-Wis.) said Tuesday night. - "People have been convicted for far less
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Laci Green is a "public sex educator, and feminist activist" who has "hosted online sex education content on behalf of Planned Parenthood and Discovery News." Therefore, I was shocked to hear the suggestion that she is also "one of the most serious sexual predators on YouTube."
SB Nation is looking to hire more writers for "Beyond the Box Score," but apparently they're not overly interested in white guys. They posted a jobs announcement on Twitter seeking potential new writers stating, "We're also passionate about making online baseball writing a more welcoming and diverse place."
What happened today, with the FBI Director folding like a wet paper box and recommending Hillary Clinton not be prosecuted, has to go down in the annals of the history of the United States as the day respect for the law in this country died. There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey , Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793 of the federal penal code : With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust.
This weekend, an anti-Semitic meme was tweeted by Donald Trump . Aside from the obvious problems , this raises several questions: Nobody is mentioning this, but shouldn't a campaign either cite the source of an image, or, you know, create its own graphics? Seriously, I'm not sure if it qualifies as plagiarism, but this strikes me inappropriate for a campaign .
Immigration reformers eye Gang of 8 revival - Lindsey Graham doesn't sugarcoat his prediction: Republicans are going to get thrashed in the November election, especially among Latinos. And it's going to trigger another run at immigration reform in Congress next year, the South Carolina senator says.