Maya Moore Hits her Biggest Shot

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'Unfortunate COVID-19 didn't wipe out blacks' – Louisiana cop fired for racist Facebook post

A white Louisiana police officer, who in a racist Facebook post, said it is “unfortunate” the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t wiped out black people in the United States has been

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Police Murder of George Floyd Sparks Uprisings Across America

From the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Louisville, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New York City, and the bright lights of the Big Apple, African Americans are expressing outrage over the police killing of George Floyd, the

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Shooting of John Crawford III

The shooting of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot to death by Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams, in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while holding a toy BB

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2014

Gayle King Feels Like It's "Open Season" On Black People

This week, a video of a white woman named Amy Cooper calling the police on a black man, Christian Cooper, for asking to put on her dog on a leash during a walk in Central Park went

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Texas grandmother, 90, shields grandson as police point guns at him | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Tye Anders, 21, was swarmed by at least three police cars after he allegedly failed to yield at a stop sign last Saturday

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Ahmaud Arbery Shooting Weighs Heavily on Black Legal Professionals – Free Press of Jacksonville

Like others across the nation, Randolph has been closely following the Ahmaud Arbery shooting

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Coachman, Alice Marie (1923-2014)

Alice Coachman became the first African American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal when she competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, UK. Born November 9, 1923, in Albany, Georgia, to Evelyn and Fred Coachman, Alice was the fifth of ten children. As an athletic child of the

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Martin Lawrence

Martin Lawrence is an American actor and comedian who has starred in numerous Hollywood hits. He was born on April 16, 1965 to John and Chlora Lawrence. John Lawrence was enlisted in the U.S. military and serving in Frankfurt, Germany at the time so Martin was born there. He was named after the

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Apr

16

1965

Officer in George Floyd Death Arrested

President Donald Trump reached back to the Civil Rights era to quote an alleged racist former Miami police

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James Frank

James Frank, president of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo. is installed as the first African American president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association

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Jan

14

1981

Ahmaud Arbery shooting weighs heavily on black legal professionals – Voice and Viewpoint

Like others across the nation, Randolph has been closely following the Ahmaud Arbery shooting

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Kenya: Kericho Police Shoot, Injure Medic During Curfew

A clinical officer is fighting for his life in hospital after being shot by a police officer in Kericho County during curfew

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Minneapolis cop who knelt on man’s neck charged with murder

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Gleaton, Tony (1948-2015) - Birthday

Gleaton, the youngest son of an elementary school teacher and police officer, was born into a black middle-class family on August 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Aug

4

1948

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Responsible For George Floyd’s Death Arrested, Charged With Murder

According to multiple reports, the former police officer responsible for the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has been taken into custody by Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal

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Sharpeville Massacre

The Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred on March 21, 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, was the incident that to that point resulted in the deaths of the largest number of South Africans in a protest against apartheid. It also came to symbolize that

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Slain lockdown violator’s family sues govt

RELATIVES of a Bulawayo man who succumbed to police assault injuries on the first day of the national lockdown in March have filed a notice of intent to sue the government for the

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Shooting of Tamir Rice

The shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy (June 25, 2002 – November 23, 2014), occurred on November 22, 2014, in Cleveland, Ohio. Two police officers, 26-year-old Timothy Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, responded after receiving a police dispatch call of a male black

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Kenya: Alarm Over Cross-Border Travel on Lake Victoria Amid COVID-19

Security agencies in Nyanza are grappling with the rising number of foreigners sneaking into Siaya County from neighbouring countries through Lake

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Source: allAfrica.com

Night of Violence Across America Leaves Streets Scarred, Outrage Simmering

By Brendan O’Brien and Carlos Barria

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Nike Responds To George Floyd’s Death With Powerful New Video: “For Once, Don’t Do it”

Source: Nike / NIke

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Ice T

Tracy Marrow, better known as Ice T is mostly celebrated for his rap songs concerning street life & violence. He has been an influential figure for the gangster rap genre. Highly controversial songs such as Cop Killer brought much fame to Ice T. He also pursued a career in acting, his most

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Feb

16

1958

Man Who Vandalized Stores in Minneapolis Appears to Be Police Officer Jacob Pederson

Nationwide — Jacob Pederson, a police officer of the St. Paul Police Department, has been identified by some sources as the man in a viral video who is seen vandalizing and smashing store windows in

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Gleaton, Tony (1948-2015)

Leo Antony Tony Gleaton is an African American photographer, scholar, and artist who is best known for his photographic images capturing and documenting the African influence in the American West and Central and South America. Gleaton, the youngest son of an elementary school teacher and police

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Jul

23

2015

George Floyd and police officer charged in his death both worked at same nightclub in 2019

Nii Ntreh is interested in academic philosophy with specific attention to moral, social and political

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

The Quora Digest website and the tenticles of racist propaganda

Instead, it was my discovery that many similar racists questions, posed by equally obnoxious White provocateurs could be found in the website’s dark alleys and

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Mark Dean

Born: 3/2/1957 Jefferson City, TennesseeMark E. Dean is an American inventor and a computer engineer. He was part of the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. He holds three of IBMs original nine PC patentsBusiness

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Protests Erupt in Atlanta, Both Peaceful and Riots, In Response to Black American Deaths

Noted thus far in year 2020 are three renowned killings: Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, and George Floyd in

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Source: Headlines - The Atlanta Inquirer

George Floyd murder: Minnesota killer cops fired

All four officers involved in the Minneapolis killing of an African-American man, have been fired according to the Minnesota

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