Resistance

Police recruit drops post George Floyd

Amid global outrage, law enforcement struggles to recruitment since the killing of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin. Among 184 police agencies surveyed in the U.S. and Canada, the nonprofit Police Executive Research Forum found that resignations jumped by 43% from 2019 through 2021, and retirements jumped 24%. In addition to those departures, overall hiring fell by 4%.

The California attorney general’s office concluded, after an independent investigation, that Jackson was neither “manhandled” nor mistreated when he was taken into police custody.

Buy Black

Many Blacks start their businesses out of necessity due to limited employment options. Study finds that Black-owned business represent 26% of all new business start-ups in 2020, an 11% increase from 2019.

Resilience

Whoopi Goldberg speaks truth to power as she boldly tells of a mother’s unwavering courage and the ongoing fight to seek justice by sharing Emmett Till’s chilling story to the world in ‘Till’; the 14-year child who was abducted, tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

“They Don’t Really Care About Us”

Despite issuing a statement that claims against him were “predicated on a big lie”, global musical icon Michael Jackson was arrested in 2003. A verdict of not guilty on all charges was issued in 2005 and in 2010, the British journalist Charles Thomson described the trial as “one of the most shameful episodes in journalistic history.” Thomson said the media coverage was “out of control ... The sheer amount of propaganda, bias, distortion, and misinformation is almost beyond comprehension.”

On his first day in office, President Biden signed Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the federal government.