Just five days into Black History Month, a major legal victory has stripped the notorious Proud Boys of the right to legally use their name.
On Monday, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic Black church in Washington, D.C. that was vandalized by the Proud Boys far-right militant group four years ago, was awarded the trademark by a DC judge.
CNN reported that Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier’s decision was meant to satisfy a $2.8 million default judgment against the violent far-right extremist militia in 2023 to get back damages incurred by the church during the December 2020 attack. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
