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America’s Foster Care System Is a Dangerous Place for Trans Teens. Now They’re Fighting for Change
Benjerman Xander entered foster care in Oregon as a 10-year-old in 2013. Ben had always felt wrong in his body, he tells TIME, but around the time he entered care, he began going through puberty, and the feelings got much more intense. “It just felt really off—like my body was doing something it shouldn’t have,”…
What Being Incarcerated Taught One Public Defender About the Criminal Justice System
While a senior at Tennessee State University (TSU) in 2002, Keeda Haynes agreed to receive multiple packages for her then-boyfriend. He told her that the deliveries were for a cell phone and pager business. As it turned out, the packages actually contained marijuana. Unbeknownst to Haynes, her boyfriend was being watched by the police. By…
What To Know About the Contacts Book That Could Be Crucial to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell began on Monday, more than two years after the death of her alleged associate Jeffrey Epstein, with whom she had been charged with conspiring to sexually abuse minors. The trial is likely to be a media spectacle. The crimes of Jeffrey Epstein—and his death by suicide in August 2019—have spawned…
How the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Verdict Could Devastate the Work of Black Lives Matter Activists
On the surface, the jury’s Nov. 19 verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was all too simple. His defense team successfully pled the case that Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed two people during a night of protests and unrest in Kenosha last August. But Rittenhouse’s reasons for being in…
The ‘Vindicating’ Exoneration of 2 Men Convicted of Malcolm X’s Murder
On Nov. 18, Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam—convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X—were exonerated after serving more than 20 years in prison. When I saw the news I thought, wow, this is significant. To get to this point of reexamination; to exonerate these two men—one posthumously because he is no longer with us…
Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty of All Charges
Jurors accepted the defense argument that Rittenhouse fired in self-defense when he shot dead two men and wounded a third during a protest in Kenosha
In the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, Self-Defense Takes Center Stage
Prosecutors say Kyle Rittenhouse provoked the violence that led to two deaths; the defense says he was only trying to defend himself
The Unusual Way the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Jury Was Selected
(KENOSHA, Wis.) — Kyle Rittenhouse played a direct role Tuesday in deciding, albeit randomly, who will be the final 12 jurors that will decide his innocence or guilt in the murder trial over his killing two protesters and injuring a third last summer. At the direction of Circuit Judge Bruce Schroder, Rittenhouse’s attorney placed slips…
Defense Attorney: ‘We Don’t Want Any More Black Pastors’ in Court for Trial Over Death of Ahmaud Arbery
(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — An attorney for one of the white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery told the judge Thursday he doesn’t want “any more Black pastors” in the courtroom after the Rev. Al Sharpton sat with the slain man’s family. Kevin Gough represents William “Roddie” Bryan, who along with father and…
Judge Dismisses Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Juror After ‘Racial’ Joke About Jacob Blake Shooting
The prosecutor on the case said the remarks as shared showed racial bias
The Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing Is Set to Begin. Here’s What to Expect
The February 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery served as a flashpoint for the reckoning on racial injustice in America that dominated much of the public consciousness last year. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was jogging in a suburban Georgia neighborhood when three men—father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, and William Bryan—pursued, shot and killed…
Why the Gun Rights Case Before the Supreme Court Matters So Much
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the biggest gun rights case in more than a decade, which could give new strength to the Second Amendment