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Source: Omaha World-Herald / Getty On Monday, the California state legislature passed a bill that would ban law enforcement from using electric shock gloves. The New York Times reports the bill is a direct response to the Trump administration spending $20 million to provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with the devices. San Diego Assemblywoman LaShae Sharp-Collins introduced the last-minute bill, calling the gloves “unproven” and a “new and […]

✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, delivering the stories that matter most to our community. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the birth of a baseball icon, here is what she wants us to carry into the week. Meta Faces Historic $17 Billion Settlement Over Youth Safety Meta reached a landmark $17 billion settlement with California and 46 other states last week, resolving […]

✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, delivering the stories that matter most to our community. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the birth of a baseball icon, here is what she wants us to carry into the week. Thousands Stand Up to Defend the Vote Friday brought powerful images to Washington. Thousands of civil rights advocates, students, and union members gathered at the […]

Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Hip-Hop began as a platform for Black youth to document their daily survival under poverty and city neglect, offering a raw dispatch from the streets, capturing police abuse and surveillance, prison expansion, and the systemic pressures facing politically maligned Black neighborhoods. By the time Hip-Hop was born on the streets of New York City, organizers from the Black liberation movement had spent decades fighting to […]