Author: Christopher Palma

Source: The Washington Post / Getty Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were found dead early Thursday morning in an apparent murder-suicide.  The New York Times reports that Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said Fairfax shot his wife and then himself while their teenage

Source: Allen J. Schaben / Getty In today’s episode of Police Be Lying Everyday, And Every Day, Police Be Lying, a high school student from San Bernardino, Calif., is suing a police officer for violently slamming her on the ground, and then lying about the circumstances under which he did it.

Source: PHILIP MICHAEL WILLS / Getty Mel Alleyne hadn’t played spades in years. Then her sister called. “She was like, ‘There’s a tournament [in Brooklyn]. And you’re going to sign up for it and you can’t say no,’” she recalled. Alleyne, who first learned the game at a lunch table

Source: Radio ONE / General On Monday, three men were arrested in Paris, Illinois, over a reported “disturbance involving a firearm” that Paris police responded to earlier this month. On Tuesday, two of the men received attempted murder and hate crime charges, among other charges, because they’re accused of violently targeting

Source: The Washington Post / Getty Maryland’s redistricting has officially failed after the state’s legislative session ended on Monday without the effort being brought to a final vote.  According to The New York Times, the redistricting effort was heavily championed by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat. While the Maryland

Source: Movement For Black Lives / peoplespower.info While Sunday’s election in Hungary struck a decisive blow to the far-right, the Movement for Black Lives has been building with communities on a new effort to challenge political power at all levels. Last month, the Movement for Black Lives Action Fund launched

Source: Win McNamee / Getty Congressional Democrats are taking a shot in the dark by proposing legislation aimed at ousting our Mad King of a president via the 25th Amendment, which folks across social media have been calling for the invoking of, because President Donald Trump is a babbling, bumbling,

Source: ChongLy “Scott” Thao Family GoFundMe / Screenshot Earlier this year, when ICE and Border Patrol agents were wreaking havoc all over Minnesota after President Donald Trump’s Gestapo-like immigration crackdown hit the Twin Cities, we reported on the story of U.S. citizen ChongLy “Scott” Thao, an elderly man who ICE

Source: Photo Courtesy of Ashlee Jenae’s Instagram / Ashlee Jenae real name Ashly Robinson. New details have emerged in the mysterious death of 31-year-old lifestyle influencer Ashly Robinson, who goes by the name of Ashlee Jenae on social media. According to an April 14 report from CBS News’ Jericka Duncan,

Source: N/A / Charlotte Metropolitan Police Department It seems like barely a week goes by without fresh reports filling our news feeds of stories that point toward a truism I’ve written about time and time again: Police be lying. In  St. Louis, authorities on Monday released police body camera footage