Black Soldiers Refuse to Police Black America On August 23, 1968, more than 100 Black U.S. soldiers gathered at Fort Hood, Texas, to confront the Army that had ordered them into an American city to suppress people whose experiences of racism they shared. For 43 soldiers, the answer became no. Their protest, remembered as the Fort Hood

after a trial marked by Red Scare, anti-immigrant hatred and hostility to leftists. Their deaths sparked outrage around the world. August 23, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti: Anarchists, Immigrants and the Machinery of the Red Scare Shortly after midnight on August 23, 1927, Massachusetts strapped two Italian immigrant workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, into the electric chair

Jim Crow Policing. The Army later executed 19 of them. PHOTO: Members of Company I, U.S. Army 24th Infantry Regiment, circa 1900. The 24th was one of the Army's historically Black regiments. Soldiers of its 3rd Battalion were stationed at Camp Logan in Houston in 1917. Library of Congress, William A. Gladstone Collection of African

Inside Louisiana State Penitentiary known simply as Angola, incarcerated men volunteer to bathe, feed, comfort and sit bedside with terminally ill fellow prisoners, maintaining vigils through the final hours so that even a man condemned to spend his life behind bars does not have to die in prison alone. It is one of the most

Across Florida, a growing number of prisons are partnering with animal shelters, humane societies and nonprofit organizations to bring unwanted shelter dogs inside correctional institutions, where incarcerated men and women live with them, socialize them and train them, making difficult-to-place dogs more adoptable while giving their human trainers useful skills and something remarkably scarce in

Books, art, music, journaling, education, small-group work, mentoring and regular contact with outside volunteers are being brought together inside Jefferson Correctional Institution in an unusual rehabilitation experiment that has become successful enough to double in size. The program is called Amplify, and it operates at Jefferson Correctional Institution in Monticello, Florida. It isn't simply a

1989 — Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is killed in Oakland Huey P. Newton was one of the most important figures to emerge from the Black liberation movement of the 1960s. Born in Louisiana in 1942 and raised in Oakland, Newton graduated from high school barely able to read, then largely

Thousands of enslaved Africans in the French colony of Saint-Domingue—today’s Haiti—rose in a coordinated rebellion against slavery and plantation rule. Sugar and coffee plantations across the wealthy northern plain were attacked and burned, while enslaved workers armed themselves and organized into rapidly growing rebel forces. What colonial authorities initially hoped would be a temporary revolt

Nearly eight years after unarmed 18-year-old Charles Roundtree Jr. was shot and killed by San Antonio police Officer Steve Casanova, his family’s federal civil-rights lawsuit has finally gone to trial, with testimony beginning August 19 after settlement talks failed. Charles Roundtree Jr. Age: 18 Gender: Male Race: Black Date: 10/17/2018 Location: 217 Roberts Street City:

The Fourteenth Amendment was born out of the horrors of slavery and the betrayal that followed emancipation. After the Civil War, the central question was: Would formerly enslaved Black people actually be citizens, or would Southern states be allowed to recreate slavery under another name? The amendment answered that question directly. Its first sentence overturned

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was one of only a handful of Black physicians practicing in the United States at a time when segregation shut Black doctors out of most hospitals. White hospitals generally denied Black physicians admitting privileges, and Black patients often received inferior care or were refused treatment altogether. Rather than accept those barriers,

He tried to prevent Black residents from gathering to organize for civil rights and voter registration. In the Deep South, Black churches were far more than places of worship. They served as meeting halls, schools, community centers, and safe spaces where local people could plan voter registration drives, hear civil rights leaders speak, and

After decades of brutal Belgian colonial rule, independence ended more than 70 years of European control that had forcefully reshaped both societies. Before colonization, Rwanda and Burundi were long-established African kingdoms with complex political systems. German rule began in the late 1800s, but after World War I the territories were transferred to Belgium under a

Its 2 separate colonial territories, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, united to form the independent Somali Republic. It was a landmark victory for African decolonization and one of the few cases where territories ruled by two different European empires voluntarily merged into a single nation. The borders that divided Somalis had not been of

Three years after winning independence from Britain. Ghana had elected Kwame Nkrumah as its first president. The move ended the last constitutional ties to the British Crown. Nkrumah had spent nearly a decade leading the independence movement. Imprisoned by British colonial authorities in 1950 for organizing mass protests and strikes, he was released after his party

On July 1, rumors and armed attacks set off white mob violence against Black residents during which whites turned on Black people, indiscriminately stabbing, clubbing, and hanging them and driving some 6,000 people from their homes. Per official record, 40 Black people and 8 white people were killed although it is believed that there were

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The Keith Porter Case ICE agent Brian Palacios shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Porter Jr. on December 31, 2025 in Northridge while off duty. Federal authorities say the agent responded to what they described as an “active shooter situation.” Porter’s friends and family dispute that account and say he was firing shots into the air to celebrate the

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“We fucking hang the spooks up here.” Recordings of police chief and mayor about a black puppet found hanging in a high school. Clark Township, New Jersey is back in the spotlight for what the state is calling a years-long pattern of racially targeted traffic enforcement, with the New Jersey Attorney General and the Division

Private ICE contractor stock surged after Trump was elected, then tanked. Wall Street is facing losses due to protests and activism as well as government failure to satisfy private investor interests Early in Donald Trump’s administration (after the 2024 election), private prison stocks likeGEO Groupand CoreCivic climbed sharply because markets priced in expectations of massive expansion of

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occurred on 6/29/2010 when more than 1,000 officers from 22 law enforcement agencies went on a manhunt after Dontae Rashawn Morris. Dontae Rashawn MorrisAge: 24 Date: 06/29/2010 Location: 50th Street and Dr Martin Luther King Jr BoulevardCity: TampaCounty: HillsboroughState: FloridaAgencies Involved: Tampa Police Department Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Federal Bureau

Police chase/vehicular fatalities involving police for 2025 are listed individually here. Breakdown Statistics by State: Alabama: 15 Alaska: 0 Arizona: 7 Arkansas: 9 California: 67 Colorado: 9 Connecticut: 4 Delaware: 3 DC: 0 Florida: 22 Georgia: 40 Hawaii: 0 Idaho: 2 Illinois: 9 Indiana: 22 Iowa: 2 Kansas: 7 Kentucky: 3 Louisiana: 12 Maine: 5

Cesar AlcantaraDate: May 2020 (incident) , resigned 2022Agency: San Diego Police Department Former San Diego Police Department officer Cesar Alcantara was under internal investigation after multiple serious misconduct allegations. In May 2020, after an argument with his girlfriend (also an officer), he dramatically threatened self-harm, sent videos of himself pointing a firearm to his mouth, then staged

Can He Legally Do It? President Trump has called for a one-year mandatory jail sentence for anyone caught burning the American flag, specifically referencing protests in Los Angeles, announcing plans to “work...

Alabama officials ready themselves to again gas-torture another human being with nitrogen.

Did Langley just roll out these identical Talking Points across social media? Coincidence or the government's trolls and bots demonstrating what the Empire is afraid of?

The 2025 ICE raids and resulting wave of protests have revealed what may be the most extensive and deeply integrated law enforcement mobilization in U.S. domestic history—synchronized operations involving local police departments, state troopers, sheriff's offices, National Guard units, and a full range of federal agencies from ICE and DHS to ATF, FEMA, and even

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Migrants in Crisis in Miami Detention The Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami which currently houses 1,700 migrants imprisoned by ICE in the national roundup of undocumented workers has been at the center of serious allegations involving overcrowding, abuse, and medical neglect. In order to attract attention to their plight, Cuban migrants formed the letters

He arrived and immediately fired 12 bullets into the teen, killing him. Then police gave him the medal of valor for it. Details in link. John AlbersAge: 17Gender: MaleRace: WhiteDate: 01/20/2018Location: 9300 block of W 149th TerraceCity: Overland ParkCounty: JohnsonState: KansasAgency: Overland Park Police DepartmentOfficer(s): Clayton JenisonCause of Death: GunshotEvent: Killed by police during mental health crisis Summary:Police responded to a call about John Albers, 17,

All cases are documented individually in the Link. An additional 188 people not included in this count were found dead in jail in 2025 so far.

On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death.

4/2/2025: Charles Briscoe was a bystander on the road when Officer Alyssa Begel reportedly drove erratically, speeding and weaving in traffic without lights or sirens and crashed into him. He died at the crash site. No explanation by LMPD so far. More in link.

All cases are documented individually in this link. Breakdown: Gunshot: 504 Vehicle: 160 (police chase crashes, bystanders, pedestrians hit by police cars, etc.) All others aside from shootings and police chase crash fatalities can be found under categories taser, drowning (during police chase), fire (SWAT raids), etc. This database also lists fatalities in jails but

GEO Group, which together with CoreCivic controls a near-total monopoly of the privatized mass incarceration business, is planning a significant expansion in its surveillance programs that are both vast and deeply invasive. These programs are run through its subsidiary BI Inc., which originally specialized in cattle-tracking surveillance. Who is the GEO Group? The GEO

  Indiana State Police had chased him at high speed for more than 40 miles until he crashed and died. Reason for chase: Alleged erratic driving. More in link.

for the in-custody death of Messiah Nantwi. He was stomped, beaten and bludgeoned to death in serial beatings by 3 officers inside of Mid-State Correctional Facility. More in link.

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in Fontana when CHP hunted a fleeing vehicle into him, killing Palacios. More in link.

Tennessee Highway Patrol had chased a vehicle they believed to be stolen at high speed until it crashed and 3 teenagers jumped into the Tennessee River during pursuit. Ma'Rico Johnson and a second unnamed teenager died by drowning during pursuit. More in link.

During a DEA drug raid in Nashville, Deshawn Patrick Jones was killed. More in link.