While nearly 1,000 people have been killed by police this year alone, it’s hard to know if that number is accurate — local police departments are on a voluntary self-reporting basis that doesn’t mandate them to send data to the FBI for recording. It may be because of that ineffective system that Tamir Rice and Eric Garner — […]
Ben Affleck made news basically for trying not to make news. The actor ask Finding Your Roots‘ Henry Louis Gates Jr. to censor his slave-owning ancestor from his family tree out of embarrassment. Gates asked Sony chief Michael Lynton for his opinion on Affleck’s plea through an email. That exchange, and consequently, Affleck’s ancestry, was made public on WikiLeaks. […]