by Jim Heath | May 31, 2020 | Headlines, Race
A Black Lives Matter demonstrator has been shot dead outside a bar in Omaha, Nebraska following a night of protests on Saturday. Footage circulating on social media shows James Scurlock, 22 – who is black – being gunned down by a man – who is white...
by Jim Heath | May 31, 2020 | Headlines, Race
A semi-truck barreled into a line of George Floyd protesters marching on a closed interstate near downtown Minneapolis on Sunday night. Video captured the massive rig speeding down the I-35W bridge at about 6pm local time as protesters taking up all lanes of traffic...
by Jim Heath | May 30, 2020 | Headlines, Race, Trump
President Trump blamed “weak leadership” in Washington for the outbreak of rioting and looting in Ferguson, Missouri, six years ago. Trump, now faced with escalating protests in Minneapolis, was repeatedly critical of the Obama administration’s...
by Jim Heath | May 30, 2020 | Headlines, Race
Officials across America are bracing for another night of escalating unrest after clashes erupted between protesters and police in dozens of cities Saturday. Tensions flared in cities from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to Columbia, S.C., and New York as thousands of...
by Jim Heath | May 30, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Race
The Russian government has stepped up efforts to inflame racial tensions in the United States as part of its bid to influence November’s presidential election, including trying to incite violence by white supremacist groups and to stoke anger among African-Americans,...
