Christina Carrega

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Christina Carrega

As the month of May approaches each year, Marnetta Malcolm is brought to tears — mourning alongside former neighbors still reeling from the racist massacre that attempted to shatter her childhood community in Buffalo, New York. “It starts now,” Malcolm told Capital B in an interview nine days before the third anniversary of the murder of 10 people at a local supermarket. “Every year when calls — like you’re calling — start, it’ll trigger some,” Malcolm said.

1 week ago | mlk50.co | Christina Carrega

More than two years after Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained during a brutal beating after a traffic stop, three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers have been found not guilty of causing his death. This is a “devastating miscarriage of justice,” Ben Crump, an attorney for Nichols’ family, said in a statement after the verdict was read Wednesday. “The world watched as Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by those sworn to protect and serve.

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Mark Fancher |Christina Carrega |Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her book is Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Book Summary (from the publisher):It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons.

2 weeks ago | truthout.org | Christina Carrega

The 29-year-old Black father died in 2023, after a brutal beating during a traffic stop in Tennessee. By Christina Carrega , CapitalB Published April 29, 2025 A photograph of Tyre Nichols holding his child sits in the foyer of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on February 1, 2023, in Memphis, Tennessee.

2 weeks ago | capitalbnews.org | Christina Carrega

More than two years after Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained during a brutal beating after a traffic stop, three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers are on trial in state court on second-degree murder charges. Opening statements began Monday with testimony from Nichols’ heartbroken mother Rowvaughn Wells, who said she didn’t learn about her son’s encounter with Memphis police officers until his death.