Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin appealed his second degree murder conviction last year to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Chauvin appealed claiming that due to media coverage, he was unable to receive a fair trial. Today they refused his appeal. Chauvin will serve an over 22-year sentence – 15 years behind bars and 7.5 on…
Author: Zach Roberts
Voter Vigilante group on trial in Georgia
Earlier this month a US District Court Judge in Georgia said that a lawsuit brought by the voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight Action against True the Vote, a Texas group founded by Tea Party crusader Catherine Engelbrecht will be heading to trial. The Fair Fight suit looks to stop True the…
Here’s to the State of Alabama: Interview with Robin Marty of West Alabama Women Center
Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) This week on the VisuNews podcast I speak with Robin Marty, author of “A Handbook for a Post-Roe America” and operations director of the West Alabama’s Women’s Center. I called her to talk about the state of abortion access in Alabama and the recent announcement from the…
‘We Are Proud Boys’ – Interview with Andy Campbell on his new book
Welcome to the Visu.News podcast, I’m Zach D Roberts and this week I’m chatting with Huffington Post reporter and author of a new book on the proud boys – Andy Campbell. Much of the American public first learned of rightwing hate gang the Proud Boys after the infamous presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe…
VisuNews: Isolated Incidents Podcast – The Unification Church aka Moonies
Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Subscribe to the Visu.News Podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify This is Zach D Roberts, I’m an investigative photojournalist and cofounder of Visu.News. This is the Visu.News Podcast – Isolated Incidents edition. Each month I interview an expert in the world of…
PHOTOS: On the Line: The Fight for Abortion Rights
Originally published in TheProgressive.org Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) On December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest case that seeks to chip away at abortion rights across the country. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state of Mississippi urged the Supreme Court to ban abortions after…
Fighting the Good Fight: An Interview with Kim Kelly
Originally published in TheProgressive.org Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Not since opening the pages of a worn copy of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States have I read a book on a subject about which I thought I knew a great deal, only to learn that I knew next to nothing….
Uvalde Mayor and City Councilmember Calls Media Chicken & Chickenshit
The Uvalde City Council meetings have been quite a shit show for the last couple weeks as they continue to attack the media and anyone who criticizes them. This evening the Mayor called the media who released video of the police response “chicken.” He claims they were planning on releasing the video to the families…
Nobody Is Protected – Interview with author Dr. Reece Jones
Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Become a Patron! This episode of the Visu.News podcast – I speak with author Dr. Reece Jones who has a new book out this week, titled Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States. Nobody is Protected is a book that…
Proud Boys Indicted for Jan 6th Sedition
Members of the leadership of the violent hate gang, The Proud Boys, that planned the January 6th insurrection have now been indicted for seditious conspiracy by a federal grand jury. The right-wing armed militia group, the Oath Keepers, who were their co-planners on Jan 6th already had seen similar charges. As we have written before,…