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The Independent Office for Police Conduct report has found that in just three years, the use of Tasers in incidents has increased by 15,000 - and eight per cent of the incidents between 2015 and 2020 involved children between the ages of 11 and 17

The investigation into the death of two Indigenous girls in 1987 was "inexplicably" deficient, in part due to racial bias in the NSW Police Force at the time, a coroner has found. On Tuesday, the inquest into the deaths of Indigenous cousins, Jacinta Rose 'Cindy' Smith, 15, and Mona Lisa Smith, 16, in December 1987 found their deaths were not adequately investigated by detectives, with State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan accepting evidence that racial bias played a role in these failings.

When the GI bill was handed out to vets returning home from WWII black veterans didn't receive any of those benefits. Which was the gateway to home ownership for so many white people for generations. In some cities/states redlining was still legal until the 1990s.

I was a teenager in a primarily whyte suburban NJ area. Drugs were everywhere. All kinds of drugs. I don’t recall anyone I knew, users or dealers, getting arrested for drugs. Meanwhile……arrests left and right in the blk communities in the same state. Those communities were considered dangerous because of drugs.

A perspective on the impacts of storms for people with disabilities.

I am on Charlie Kirk's hit list. His so-called “Professor Watchlist,” run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. | landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life. For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: “bitch,” “c*nt,” “n****r” They threatene...

Throughout her career, Dr. Katalin Karikó faced overwhelming institutional and scientific resistance, largely because the scientific community viewed mRNA as too unstable and inflammatory for medical use (Hafner et al., 2025; Rogers, 2024). At the University of Pennsylvania, she endured constant grant rejections, lacked her own lab and a university salary, and was even denied basic supplies like deionized water.