4 posts tagged ‘civil rights’
America's crime grandpa gets slapped with contempt charge for being a sneaky little sh*t
Boing Boing,
Everyone's favorite disbarred lawyer and sentient disaster Rudy Giuliani is back in the news. Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, the election workers Rudy falsely accused of falsifying votes, are trying to collect their well-deserved millions. But Rudy's been playing hide-and-seek with his assets after getting slapped with the $148 million judgment he owes. — Read the rest The post America's crime grandpa gets slapped with contempt charge for being a sneaky little sh*t appeared first on Boing Boing.
DEA paid "tens of thousands" to airline employees for targeting innocent passengers to steal their cash — DOJ halts practice
President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973 to persecute Blacks and antiwar activists. Over 50 years later, it's still in operation, serving as an employer for sociopathic goons and drug cartel moles. And today the DEA is hopping mad because the Department of Justice (DOJ) has finally clipped its wings. — Read the rest The post DEA paid "tens of thousands" to airline employees for targeting innocent passengers to steal their cash — DOJ halts practice appeared first on Boing Boing.
James Baldwin’s Anguished Prescience in “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
The New Yorker,
Reflecting on the civil-rights era in the nineteen-eighties, the author sounds like our contemporary.
Rustin Is a Solid History Lesson But Not a Particularly Good Movie
Vulture,
Colman Domingo is fantastic, however.