About Your Voice with Solomon Jones

Jason Van Dyke, a white Chicago police officer, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday, nearly four years after he shot and killed Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old holding a knife. The violent encounter sparked intense demonstrations across the city after authorities released a video in 2015 showing Van Dyke firing 16 shots into […]

Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court over the weekend, far from settling the fierce debate over his confirmation, has inflamed the nation’s political and cultural fissures for the midterm elections next month and well beyond. The repercussions from the most brutal battle over the high court’s makeup in a generation could end up affecting […]

A video of a tense encounter between four black students and a white man in Florida has prompted a police investigation after it went viral on Twitter. The video, posted by one of the students of Florida A&M University, Isiah Butterfield, shows the man holding a gun and using his body to prevent the students […]

Days before in-person jury selection is set to begin in his second trial, President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is in talks with the special counsel’s office about a possible plea deal, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the conversations, […]

Hurricane Florence is barreling toward the East Coast as it moves on a probable path toward the Carolinas. Here’s the latest of what we know. Florence is a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph and higher gusts. Abnormally warm ocean waters — a feature that has become more common with climate […]

In response to Serena Williams standing up against sexism at the U.S. Open, a racist cartoon portrayed one of the world’s best-conditioned athletes as a fat, angry mammy character more suited to Gone With The Wind than the top tier of international tennis. To underscore the point, cartoonist Mark Knight of the Herald Sun in Australia whitewashed […]

A Dallas police officer stands charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man she mistakenly thought was in her apartment, but Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson would not rule out a more serious charge Monday. Amber Guyger, who is white, was off-duty when she shot Botham Shem Jean, a black man, in his […]

As Hurricane Florence approaches the East Coast of the United States, the governors of Virginia, North and South Carolina have issued mandatory evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of residents in coastal areas. Florence was upgraded Monday to Category 4. The size of hurricane-force winds doubled over 12 hours from 30 to 60 mph, the […]

“CBS This Morning” anchor Gayle King has called for CBS to release details of its investigation into sexual assault allegations against former chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves. Moonves was forced out on Sunday amid a growing list of troubling allegations of sexual misconduct dating back decades. The settlement Moonves reached with CBS on Sunday calls for the […]

A Dallas police officer was arrested Sunday in connection with the shooting death of Botham Shem Jean, the Texas Rangers said. Amber Guyger, who is white, was off-duty when she shot Jean, a black man, after mistakenly entering his apartment at the complex where she also lived, police said Thursday. Jean, 26, a native of […]

Leslie Moonves, the top executive at CBS Corp (CBS.N) since 2006 and a major figure at the broadcast network and media company for more than two decades, resigned on Sunday amid a new wave of allegations against him of sexual assault and harassment. His departure as chairman, CEO and president was confirmed by the company […]

Former President Barack Obama re-entered the national political debate on Friday with a scathing indictment of President Trump, assailing his successor as a “threat to our democracy” and a demagogue practicing the “politics of fear and resentment.” Sometimes by name, sometimes by inference, he accused him of cozying up to Russia, emboldening white supremacists and […]