Ahmaud is a kid you cannot replace’: Federal judge rejects plea deal in Ahmaud Arbery case

A plea agreement that could have disposed of charges pending in a hate crimes trial for two men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery was rejected by a federal judge Monday, Jan. 31. The deal was …

Ahmaud Arbery's family's statements at his killers' sentencing reveal a powerful truth about racism

On Friday the mother, father, and sister of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year old Black man brutally murdered by three white men after he was observed jogging through their Georgia neighborhood, each …

Men who gunned down and killed Ahmaud Arbery sentenced to life in prison

The three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery Feb. 2020 as the 25-year-old was jogging through Brunswick, Georgia, all faced the death penalty. In a sentencing hearing on Friday, Travis McMichael, …

Hope is not lost. These 2021 guilty verdicts against cops (current and former) are examples why

With new viral video surfacing each week of a Black person brutalized by police or targeted for little more than simply being Black, it’s easy to feel hopeless. That’s exactly how I felt when I …

Organizers in Ahmaud Arbery’s community celebrate guilty verdict and fight for systemic change

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire

This article was originally published at Prism

I’ll never forget where I was when the first plane hit the World Trade Center: in a classroom at my high school in Brunswick, …

Jury hears from neighbor who agreed to share disturbing video of Ahmaud Arbery's death

The trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery began on Thursday with the cross-examination of defendant Travis McMichael, who testified a day earlier that he shot Arbery.  Travis; …

Attorney actually tries to make argument that Arbery's death was 'suicide by citizen's arrest'

The trial of three white men accused of hunting down and murdering Ahmaud Arbery after seeing him running from a house under construction in their South Georgia community began on Wednesday with the …