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The shooting of Walter Scott occurred on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, following a daytime traffic stop for a non-functioning brake light. Scott, an unarmed black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer. The race difference led many to

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

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2015

Flipper, Henry Ossian (1856-1940)

Born near Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856, Henry O. Flipper rose to prominence as the first African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877. Despite being born into slavery to Festus, a shoemaker, and Isabella Flipper, Henry was reared in a family that

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Amy Klobuchar Didn't Prosecute Cop Involved In George Floyd's Death

KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Amy Klobuchar, who is currently being vetted as a potential candidate to be Joe Biden’s vice president in the 2020 elections, is facing increased scrutiny in the anger and frustration over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis

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Garnet, Henry Highland

Garnet, Henry Highland gär´nĭt [key], 1815–82, American abolitionist clergyman, b. Kent co., Md. Born a slave, he escaped in 1824 and was educated at the Oneida Institute, Whitesboro, N.Y. He was an eloquent speaker, but his radicalism, particularly in a speech at Buffalo in 1843, in which he

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Protests Shift to Memorializing Floyd Amid Push for Change

ATLANTA (AP) — The tenor of the protests set off by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has taken a turn from the explosive anger that has fueled the setting of fires, breaking of windows and other violence to a quiet, yet more forceful, grassroots call for more to be done to address

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Source: Black America Web

Author discusses book on Jackson State shootings of 1970

Eleven days later, (white) employees of the Jackson, Miss., police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on a protest outside a women's dormitory at historically black Jackson State College (now

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Source: Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Career Advice, Jobs

Civil Rights Act of 1960

AN ACT To enforce constitutional rights, and for other

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Source: Black Past

Sep

30

1950

Four Minneapolis Officers Fired After Death Of George Floyd | Afro

By AMY FORLITI and JEFF BAENEN, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

8 Of The Deadliest Race Riots Involving African Americans In U.S. History

The riot began with a fistfight between a white sailor and a black man who was thought to have insulted the

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Source: Black Then

Mentally ill man facing extradition - Gov’t yet to make decision on two-decade-old request

AN EXTRADITION request by United States (US) authorities for a mentally ill Jamaican man wanted for murder in the state of New York was lodged at the Ministry of Justice for over a decade with no action, officials have

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Charges Dropped Against Breonna Taylor's Boyfriend, Police Chief Announces Retirement Same Day FBI Takes Up Investigation of Case

A Louisville prosecutor recommended charges be dropped against Kenneth Walker, who was charged with attempted murder after he shot a police officer during the botched raid that resulted in the death of his girlfriend, Breonna

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Prologue: Selected Articles | National Archives

Spring

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First Thing: US has three months to prepare for second Covid-19 wave, say scientists

A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the

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Source: News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition | The Guardian

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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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father was the first African American general in the U.S. Army

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

22

1959

Florida Police Association Recruits ‘Racist’ And Jailed Cops: ‘We Got Your Back!’

The Brevard County Fraternal Order of Police used no uncertain terms in a now-deleted Facebook post encouraging these shamed officers to come down to the Sunshine State to apparently engage in the behavior that got them in trouble without any fear of

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Source: NewsOne

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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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

Unprovoked slayings of six Blacks in Buffalo, New

Unprovoked slayings of six Blacks in Buffalo, New York, triggered demands for national investigation. Spingarn Medal warded to Rayford W. Logan, historian and author, in tribute to his lifetime of service as an educator and historian.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Oct

13

1980

Body camera: Dying man pleads 'save me' during Taser arrest | Dallas Weekly

AUSTIN, Texas (AP), July 9, 2020 — A black man died in custody last year after sheriff’s deputies in Texas repeatedly used stun guns on him, despite his pleas that he was sick and couldn’t breathe, according to recently released police video and

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Older White Protestor Assaulted By Police in Buffalo Suffered Cracked Skull, Can’t Walk

Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN

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Source: The Urban Daily

Black Man Dies After Video Shows Officer Kneeling on Neck

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis was seen on a bystander’s video pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck during the arrest and kept his knee there for several minutes after the man stopped

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Source: Black America Web

Cops-Cops, Do Your Duty-Intervene.

The problem is most big city police departments do not have any written, or enforced, policy requiring officers to intervene and report other officers who commit

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Harris County DA Kim Ogg explains officer-involved shootings on new video

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg released a video this week explaining the process that goes into investigating officer-involved

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

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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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

In UK, Police Response To Protests For Racial Equality Is Markedly Different

In London, as NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, many don't like what they've

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Source: Stories About Black History

Kerby Jean-Raymond Talks Abolishing The National Police Force: It’s “A Proper Cult” [Details]

While it’s been a controversial topic, Jean-Raymond is all about defunding the police, insisting in an interview with the outlet that the police force is a “proper

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American Trial: The Eric Garner Story

Rewind the clock to July 17, 2014, when Eric Garner, an African-American husband, father, son in Staten Island, was murdered by Daniel Pantaleo, an NYPD officer after Pantaleo held Garner in a chokehold while Garner resisted

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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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Source: The New Journal and Guide

National Convention of Black Men Held

A national convention of black men was held in Buffalo, NY. The black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnett called for a slave revolt and a general strike across black America. Frederick Douglass denounced the speech.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Aug

22

1843

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