Russia’s campaign to spread misinformation during the 2016 president race targeted African Americans on numerous social media platforms, according to a report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Marijuana use has doubled in the last decade, and with that has come a doubling in the use disorders associated with it, according to a recent medical study by a Columbia University epidemiologist published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry and in Medscape Medical News. Dr. Deborah Hasin reported…
A 1975 video shows how extensively the FBI investigated African Americans in the 1960s.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A group affiliated with the DEA has apologized after tweeting a photo of a Harlem drug dealer to commemorate Black History month, The Washington Post reports. The DEA said the tweet was a misunderstanding. “The focus of original tweet was to be invaluable hard work of African American DEA agents, not…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is preparing to release a highly critical report of police in Ferguson, accusing them of making discriminatory traffic stops and creating an environment that bred animosity among African Americans, The New York Times reports. The report, which could be released as early as this week, says Ferguson police…
Leland Ware Delaware Voice On Feb. 12, FBI Director James B. Comey made what will be remembered as a history-making speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the speech, “Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race,” Comey said, “With the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com No FBI director has spoken publicly and at length about the issue of race. Until today. FBI Director James B. Comey plans to discuss the strained relationship between police officers and African Americans at a speech at Georgetown University, the New York Times reports. Comey is expected to discuss how well-intended…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and its notoriously paranoid director J. Edgar Hoover spied on prominent African American writers for decades, monitoring their activities and critiquing their work. The Guardian reports that newly declassified documents from the FBI show extensive surveillance of black writers and scholars, including Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Claude McKay….
