“Black Brunch” protests began in New York City this past weekend targeting white complicity in acts of bigotry and racism through police brutality. The sit-ins, inspired by the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s, were staged to disrupt business as usual in predominantly non-black neighborhoods and to honor the lives of African Americans killed by police in …

Singularity, the Internet economy, and the flaws of Google are played around with by Jaron Lanier. The problem with wikipedia, the economic house of cards that has been constructed by internet power barons, and how people can get stupid and rich in the face of more noble technological pursuits are discussed with the brilliant author and thinker on Talk Show, …

Taken, real life human trafficking and the business of child abduction for sex slavery is discussed with Innocents at Risk’s Deborah Sigmund. Preventing sex trafficking, the importance of airline attendants in the struggle, and how the United States is the premier location for sex slaves is explored. We also learn how to identify victims of abduction, and think about the …

A member of the Michael Brown grand jury is suing the prosecutor Bob McCulloch for misrepresenting the deliberations that ended in the decision not to indict Officer Wilson for the death of Brown. The reasons why the case may create a law-changing precedent, why the prosecutor needlessly breached secrecy of the grand jury, and the strange ways the case has …

Billionaire Harold Hamm’s ex-wife Sue Ann Arnall rejected a 975 million dollar personal check from the oil tycoon to settle their divorce. Ms. Arnall is seeking compensation of several billion dollars and stated, through her counsel, that she was rejecting the payment because she did not want to jeopardize the dismissal of her appeal by acceptance of the benefits. We …

Donald Trump has blamed the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris on France’s lack of guns, saying on Twitter, “If the people so violently shot down in Paris had guns, at least they would have had a fighting chance.” Trump continued to tweet about the massacre saying, “Isn’t it interesting that the tragedy in Paris took place in one of …

The NAACP was targeted in a bombing at their Colorado Springs chapter. The improvised explosive device went off outside of the office while a gasoline can placed next to the device failed to detonate. No injuries were reported following the attack. Was this a hate crime against the country’s oldest civil rights organization, or was the attack targeted at something …