via BlackAmericaWeb: Howard University protesters continue to occupy an administration building for a fifth day in protests sparked by revelations that university employees had misappropriated financial aid money from 2007 to 2016. Students occupying the administration building have refused to leave until all nine of their demands are met, including the resignation of university president Wayne A.I. Frederick. […]
Protesters physically blocked US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from entering a public school on Friday morning. Parents holding signs greeted DeVos when she arrived at Jefferson Middle School Academy in southwest Washington, not far from the Department of Education building. When she tried to enter the school, the protesters stood in front of her, video […]
getty images: Protesters took to the streets Wednesday in at least 10 cities to march against president-elect Donald Trump – and numerous college students and faculty leaders took to social media to announce support groups and even postponed exams. Protests were underway in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., St. Paul, […]
Cleveland Police used bicycle cops to patrol protesters marching in and around downtown Monday afternoon. The protest and march started around 4:30 p.m. at the Free Stamp near City Hall and wound its way through Public Square, over the Detroit-Superior Bridge, down W. 25th St. in Ohio City and back over the Lorain-Carnegie bridge before […]
The City of Cleveland has set up a new procedure to prosecute protesters who are arrested for minor infractions. The change comes after 71 people were arrested in May 2015. Those arrested were protesting the verdict in the Michael Brelo trial. Some were detained for days, prompting civil rights attorneys to call for a more streamlined […]
Protesters in Minnesota are being criticized for chanting “pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon" during a Black Lives Matter march
A controversial revision to legislation that will alter a Cleveland resident’s ability to protest passed the Cleveland City Council on Wednesday. The legislation passed 14 to 4 – with Cleveland City Councilmen Jeff Johnson, Zack Reed, Brian Cummins and T.J. Dow voting against the measure. “It may not be perfect, but that’s what led […]
Tensions between police and protesters caused clashes in Philadelphia during the fourth night of demonstrations over the death of Freddie Gray. Officers pushed back members of a march who surged on a police line outside City Hall on Thursday, with police saying four arrests had been made. One protester told the Philadelphia Inquirer he had […]
Protesters angry over an obscure film critical of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, as unrest that led to the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya spread to other countries in the region. Yemeni security forces fired into the air as demonstrators reached […]
Hundreds of police officers, some in riot gear, descended on Zuccotti Park after midnight Tuesday in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street headquarters. It comes just two days ahead of a massive planned demonstration Thursday marking the movement’s two-month anniversary. Police handed out letters to protesters ordering them to temporarily evacuate the park; […]
Emotions are running high in New York city, over a proposal to build a mosque and Muslim community center just blocks from ground zero. The city’s landmarks preservation commission is deciding whether a century-old building in lower Manhattan is worth preserving. Tempers flared at a hearing yesterday. Should they allow a mosque to be built […]
Emotions are running high in New York city, over a proposal to build a mosque and Muslim community center just blocks from ground zero. The city’s landmarks preservation commission is deciding whether a century-old building in lower Manhattan is worth preserving. Tempers flared at a hearing yesterday. Should they allow a mosque to be built […]
