Jacob Blake

Is Kyrie truly sorry, or sorry that he got suspended?Image: Getty ImagesIt was one of the rare beautiful things about 2020. It’s a shame it took an event as obviously evil as George Floyd’s murder while in Minneapolis police custody to be…

LeBron James and Michael Jordan.Image: APLeBron James and Michael Jordan approach basketball and life in starkly different ways. Jordan had to be convinced into consistently sharing the ball with his teammates, while James has been…

Giants’ manager Gabe Kapler stands for the national anthem on Memorial Day in Philly.Image: Getty ImagesSix years ago, a Black football player decided he wasn’t going to stand during the national anthem because America wasn’t holding up its…

A moment of silence is a small empty gesture.Illustration: Getty ImagesThoughts and prayers are the worst things you can offer during times like this. The Bible says that faith without works is dead, which means that all those prayers are…

Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, now playing for the BIG3 league, was suspended by the NBA in 1996 after refusing to rise for the Star-Spangled Banner.Photo: Getty ImagesNow that the NBA’s social justice pomp and circumstance have faded away, it’s past…

Kyle Rittenhouse is a free man, but that has nothing to do with your sexual assault case, Trevor Bauer.Image: Getty ImagesKyle Rittenhouse got away with murder, acquitted on all charges in the two killings that he admitted to last year,…

For many Black Americans, Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal on all charges by a Wisconsin jury on Friday confirmed their belief in two justice systems: one for white people and another for Black people. Rittenhouse, the two men he…

The jury in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse ended their first day of deliberations on Tuesday without reaching a verdict, pushing their efforts to form a consensus on whether to convict or acquit the teenager into…

Kyle Rittenhouse testifying about the night he shot three men on the streets of Kenosha – sobbing and seemingly unable to continue as he spoke about the first shooting – was among the most compelling moments in his two-week…

The first man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was “hyperaggressive” that night, threatened to kill Rittenhouse and later lunged for his rifle just before the 17-year-old fired, witnesses testified Thursday.…