A single mother from Detroit is organizing an effort to bring the concerns of people of color to the global Occupy Wall Street movement.
Video has surfaced online of a police officer pepper spraying students from the University of California Davis who were conducting a peaceful protest on campus. The video has led the chancellor of the university to call for an official investigation. See Also: Explore The Great Town Of Los Angeles, California “The use of the pepper […]
Gang affiliations are oftentimes set in stone, with members choosing sides and vowing to remain loyal to their selected group. But two members of the infamously rival gangs the Bloods and the Crips, have put aside their differences in favor of one common cause: Occupy Atlanta. According to an article written by Occupy Atlanta participant Tim […]
Rapper Jay-Z is launching a line of t-shirts inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, but the profits won’t go to the 99 percent who have been protesting across the country for over a month. Jay-Z was seen wearing one of the shirts on one of his Watch The Throne tour stops. See also: Why […]
Occupy Wall Street protesters are saying that African-Americans need the most help during America’s financial crisis. Many protesters say that Black communities are hit the hardest, and should demand government support for education, infrastructure and jobs, and a slew of other causes that affect their communities. “If any other community needs a bailout, it’s the […]
NEW YORK — More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police. The group Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in a […]