Tag: NBA
LAPD releases video of officer tasing NBA player
The LAPD released footage from two police body cameras showing what occurred during the arrest.
Before the NFL took a knee: 4 lesser-known moments of resistance...
This isn’t the first time the world of professional sports has entered the fight for civil rights and racial justice.
NBA: The National Billboard Association?
Pro basketball teams are turning their players into running, dribbling ads.
Meet the Lobbyists Who Got a $250 Million Subsidy for a...
Scott Walker continues his cuts to the public sector despite his plan to score the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks a new arena costing more than $250 million in taxpayer money. Meet the lobbyists who won Walker’s heart in the deal.
Gov. Walker and the Democrats’ Dance: Shady Politics Behind the Milwaukee...
Shady details of the need to build new sports arenas reveal the great power of politics that come into play. And Gov. Scott Walker is the newest politician to get involved in this shady business.
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Moderate Democrats: Splitting the party in two
This is the most important midterm election in American history. If the Democratic Party leadership splits the party and the Republicans win, Democrats will go the way of the Whig and the Tory.
ICE killed a Maine father during an operation targeting someone else
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot while driving to work, leaving conflicting federal and eyewitness accounts of why an immigration agent opened fire.
Federal agents turned crowd-control weapons on protesters and journalists
Researchers documented hundreds of cases involving close-range attacks, head shots and injuries ranging from blindness to traumatic brain damage.
Inside ICE’s largest detention center
A new investigation describes deaths, medical neglect, hidden detainees, and private contractors inside Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.
Justice Department probe tests the UAW’s reform movement
Shawn Fain denies allegations that he misused union authority as a federal investigation and leadership election place one of organized labor’s most prominent unions under new pressure.