At the conclusion of a nearly three week-long trial in Chicago, jurors have found two men guilty of the 2015 murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. Described by community members as an “inhumane” crime, and a case that drew the national spotlight, it was alleged the one defendant on trial shot and killed Tyshawn in a gang-related execution, at the other’s behest.
During the trial, prosecutors said Tyshawn was playing on a basketball court in a South Side Chicago park when Dwright Boone-Doty, 25, tricked him into going into an alley, at which point he shot the child multiple times. Read More...
Billionaire Frank McCourt has long argued that the internet needs to be radically changed on an infrastructural level in order to reduce its toxicity, misinformation, and extractive nature. Now, he’s hoping to slide into a power vacuum in pursuit of that goal. McCourt is putting together a bid to buy TikTok from Chinese technology company ByteDance, which faces a U.S. ban at the end of this year unless it sells the wildly popular app. Read More...
There was the anticipation you felt as a child as you waited for Christmas morning. You had your Christmas cloth and shoes, you made your Christmas hair and on Christmas Eve you were up throwing 'bangers' in the streets. The whole house smelt of chicken and food, you probably joined in the labour for the preparation. For me, it was the endless hours spent cutting chin chin dough that signalled Christmas, for others, it was slaughtering chickens. Read More...