Black Mother and Sons Condemned to Death

Charges filed against staff at facility where Michigan teen died after being restrained | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Charges have been filed against three staff members of a youth services facility in Kalamazoo where a teen died after being restrained, the county prosecutor said

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Algiers Motel Incident (1967)

The Algiers Motel Incident occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, two days after the Detroit Race Riot began. The incident started when Army National Guardsman Ted Thomas reported hearing gunshots at the Algiers Motel Annex. Detroit Police, Michigan State Police, and other National

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Washington Post editor says white women are 'lucky' they are just being called Karen

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Former Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks granted $500,000 bond | The Atlanta Voice

In a previously filed court documents, Rolfe’s attorneys say Rolfe was legally justified and acting in self-defense when he shot and killed Brooks, 27, who wrestled with police and took the Taser of Officer Devin Brosnan during the

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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag | Dallas Weekly

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem that’s broadly condemned as

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Civil Unrest Damaged Buildings; Then Local Artists Responded, In Photos

Plywood surrounding businesses and buildings is the opposite of what most people picture when they think of a thriving downtown, but, somehow, Birmingham managed to take an uncertain moment and make it

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Supreme Court rejects several gun rights cases for next term

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday passed up several challenges to federal and state gun control laws, over the dissent of two conservative

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Ex-Cop Charged In George Floyd’s Death to Argue Self-Defense

In the upcoming trial of the police officers charged with the killing of George Floyd, one of the police officers going on trial is expecting to claim self-defense for his role in the tragic death, according to NBC

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Investigate not just Ahmad’s death, but the system that let his killers escape

The 64-year-old former police investigator and his 34-year-old son who are charged in his death told police he thought Mr. Arbery looked like a man suspected in several break-ins in the

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Senegal lifts coronavirus restrictions; land, sea borders still closed

Senegal is easing some restrictions that had been imposed to aid curb the spread of the Covid 19

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Al Sharpton

Al Sharpton is a religious leader and political activist. He was born on October 3, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. His father left the family and Sharpton was raised by his mother. They had to move to the public housing projects, where his mother worked as a maid and supported the family on her

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Man Gets a Hospital Bill for $1,000,000.00 for COVID Treatment | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

He’s breathing better and his heart is beating fine, but he came home to a bill that would almost make anybody’s heart

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MASON: The Roots of White Supremacy

It depicts a battle between rival gangs of poor white people — native-born Americans versus Irish immigrants — in the notorious Manhattan slum of Five

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Robert De Niro opens about raising biracial children: 'I take certain things for granted'

Robert De Niro attends the 92nd Annual Academy Awards in

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Nurse ‘Karen’ Fired After Calling Black Lives Matter A ‘Political Trick’ Meant To ‘Terrorize’

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Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Long a symbol of pride to some and hatred to others, the Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence 155 years after rebellious Southern states lost a war to perpetuate

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Atlanta race riot

The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a racist pogrom in Atlanta, Georgia (United States), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a racial massacre of negroes.[1] The death toll of the

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Taking Down Racist Episodes, Recasting Voice Roles Won’t Get At the Real Problems

Since last week, a growing number of beloved TV shows, like “30 Rock,” “The Office,” “Community” and “Scrubs,” have announced they’ll remove episodes or scenes in which characters wear blackface from online streaming and rental

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VIDEO: Rashard Brooks and the Tale of Two Police Officers and Officer Discretion – Voice and Viewpoint

Video shows Officer Devin Bronsan, who joined the Atlanta Police Department in 2018, driving first to wake up

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3 men indicted on murder charges in killing of Ahmaud Arbery | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The indictment charges Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan with malice murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false

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Georgia Man Ahmaud Arbery, Shot and Killed — Jogging While Black

“The decision to rely on the citizen’s arrest statute is really a recent invention, prior to that they just simply said it was self-defense,” Merritt told CNN, adding that the men are trying to use the law to say they were trying to stop

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City council to probe handling of Breonna Taylor shooting

Louisville’s city government has announced plans to review the handling by the mayor’s administration of the fatal police shooting of Breonna

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What About Our Daughters? Breyonna Taylor and overlooking women in the movement

#SayHerName is another social movement that raises awareness for Black female victims of police brutality; however, Breyonna Taylor’s story seemed to be overlooked in these movements and almost ignored by the

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Grizzlies’ Morant apologizes after anti-police post

Memphis Grizzlies rookie guard Ja Morant apologized on Twitter yesterday for reposting an anti-police image on social

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White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

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Floyd Murder Unleashes Black Parents’ Worst Fears

Her tears, she said, are for the senseless, callous murder of another innocent unarmed Black person, for the constant terror that African-Americans live under because of police brutality and extra-judicial murders; and a deep and persistent anxiety about her

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Terry Crews Responds to Backlash Over '#blacklivesbetter' Tweet and for Not Defending Gabrielle Union

Crews was on the show to address the intense backlash that he received after sending a tweet about Black Lives

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Hurricane Chris Arrested For Second-Degree Murder

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Investigate not just Ahmad’s Death, But the System that Let his Killers Escape

The 64-year-old former police investigator and his 34-year-old son who are charged in his death told police he thought Mr. Arbery looked like a man suspected in several break-ins in the

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La Amistad

Coordinates: 41°21′40″N 71°57′58″W / 41.361°N 71.966°W La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been enslaved in

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