by adminsybilwilkes | Dec 7, 2021
WRITTEN AND CONTRIBUTED BY KWYN TOWNSEND RILEY What You Need to Know: Chrystul Kizer is awaiting charges for allegedly killing her sex trafficker when she was 17. Randall P Vollar II, who had been arrested previously on sexual trafficking charges, was shot in...
by adminsybilwilkes | Dec 7, 2021
WRITTEN AND CONTRIBUTED BY KHAMERON RILEY What You Need to Know: Kavon Ward, a Black woman and co-founder of a group called “Where is My Land,” aimed at advocating for other Black people’s rights to reclaiming stolen land, lead the successful fight on behalf of the...
by adminsybilwilkes | Dec 7, 2021
What You Need to Know: Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice this week against the state of Texas, for violation of the Voting Rights Act. The DOJ charged the Republican-majority state legislature drew voting maps that...
by adminsybilwilkes | Dec 6, 2021
Justin King, a 28-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by his White 42-year-old neighbor at their trailer park community on November 3 in Bourbon, MO. The shooter was taken into custody by the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department and released without charge. The...
by adminsybilwilkes | Dec 6, 2021
Tim Gilbert was found guilty of an aggravated assault that happened in 2018 and was sentenced to six years behind bars in June of 2020. But Gilbert’s defense attorney has successfully argued the Confederate symbols openly displayed in the Giles County...
