The chants heard in downtown Morgantown Thursday evening were exactly the same as those that echoed through the same streets last summer. Black Lives Matter. No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police. There was one notable difference. When leaders chanted “Say his ...
by Dahleen Glanton Months after police killed George Floyd on a busy street in Minneapolis, Army Lt. Caron Nazario had a dangerous encounter with police in rural Virginia. Nazario, who is Black and Latino, survived. But the officers’ overreaction to Nazario for driving a new SUV ...
After the speeches, the hashtags, the marches, the dramatic demands for transforming America’s criminal justice system, comes the relatively mundane but indispensable means of determining guilt or innocence and, if guilt, punishment: The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek ...
by Dahleen Glanton Stacey Abrams and Black Lives Matter have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both were unexpected, nontraditional choices. But only one deserves to win. If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, it is possible that his movement would look a lot like ...
By Gabriella BrownNewsroom@DominionPost.com Marjorie Fuller was just 10 years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Fuller, director of the WVU Center for Black Culture and Research, was too young at the time to participate in the civil rights movement but remembers ...
Crowd gathers to honor Breonna Taylor, raise awareness of racism By Jana Mackin Newsroom@DominionPost.com At high noon, call and response of love and righteous indignation rang out yesterday when some 70 Black Lives Matter supporters crowded outside the Monongalia County ...