Rodney King

(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”

Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I’m going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every

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Source: Black Past

Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States [5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It prohibited unequal application of voter registration

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Source: BlackHistory.com

HBO’s Human By Orientation Launches Digital “Pride” Site With Daily LGBTQIA+ Programming And Events Through The Month Of June

HBO’s Pride 2020 festivities kick off this Thursday night with Por Detroit x Ostbahnhof, two of LA’s most notorious warehouse parties coming together to show off the city’s diverse and colorful

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Black Man Killed By Police in Minnesota | Post News Group

The words of 46-year-old George Floyd as he lay on the street in Minneapolis after he was arrested on suspicion of passing a counterfeit bill are eerily reminiscent of the police killing of Eric Garner in New

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Source: Post News Group | PNG

Colin Kaepernick Expands Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Initiative

According to Revolt, his Know Your Rights Camp will provide legal resources for protesters throughout the

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Source: NewsOne

Retreat or deploy? Police try to balance protest response

LOS ANGELES (AP) — On two straight nights of unruly protests against police brutality, officers retreated from their posts in some American cities, while in others, they deployed batons, flash-bang grenades and tear gas to quell the

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

How To Help George Floyd Protesters: A List Of Places To Donate

Amid the unrest in Minneapolis and cities throughout the country following the murder of Floyd, social and racial equity organizations are rallying around those who are on the frontlines fighting for

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Source: NewsOne

Court Rejects Trump Bid to End Young Immigrants’ Protections

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection

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Source: Black America Web

Tracey Brame, Civil Rights Expert and Law Professor, Weighs in on Death of George Floyd

Prior to this weekends protests around the United States over the death of Georg Floyd and others persons of color who have died while in custody of police, WMU-Cooley Associate Dean and Professor Tracey Brame, a civil rights expert, spoke with media outlets in Michigan regarding the use of

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Righteous Anger?

There are mothers, teachers, barbers and beauty stylists, shine kings with stories too vivid for words to adequately describe about open murder/abuse of black

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

OP-ED: The stuff of Dreams — MLK goes right on marching

George Floyd is sadly one of many, many African Americans who have been the victim of racial profiling and

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Several Speak out on George Floyd and Racism

By Earl Heath, Contributing Sports Writer

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Stacey Abrams On Wisconsin, Voting and The Future of America

As a child, Stacey Abrams’ parents used to take her and her siblings to the voting booth whenever it was an election

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

Trump Takes Credit For 'Making Juneteenth Famous' In Dumbfounding Interview

In an assertion that’s somehow as bold as it is clueless, President Donald Trump is congratulating himself for spreading awareness of Juneteenth, the day celebrating the end of slavery in

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Bill Perkins - NYC Councilman

Bill Perkins, Democrat—Working Families, was re-elected to the New York City Council in a Special Election on February

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Source: New York City Council

Washington (State) Omnibus Civil Rights Act of 1957

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Source: Black Past

Judge Damon J Keith Continuing the Crusade for Justice and Empowering Communities

In a career that spans nearly fifty years, the Honorable Damon J. Keith, who is a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, is continuing to build on his legacy with the release of his first ever biography, Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon

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Source: Savoy Network

1 Police officer in Breonna Taylor killing finally fired!

Following pressure from civil rights activists, public servants, private citizens and a number of celebrities at least one of three police officers involved in “no-knock” warrant lead to the fatal shooting of a Breonna Taylor in Louisville has been fired, the Louisville’s mayor Greg Fischer

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

Burundi: OHCRC - Burundi's Elections Aren't 'Credible and Free'

As Burundi holds elections, the UN's human rights body says the country fails to meet conditions for free and credible

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Source: allAfrica.com

Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants' protections | The Atlanta Voice

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Trump Justice Department Killed Police Reform Programs That Could Have Helped Minneapolis

Federal authorities, like a lot of law enforcement leaders across the country, have expressed shock at the disturbing video of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck until he

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

American Civil War

698,000 (peak)[3] [better source

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

The stuff of Dreams — MLK goes right on marching

George Floyd is sadly one of many, many African Americans who have been the victim of racial profiling and

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Source: The Florida Star

Shooting of Oscar Grant

Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot in the early morning hours of New Years Day 2009 by BART Police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, United States. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Birmingham protesters jogged in place for 8:46 to honor George Floyd

For 8 minutes, 46 seconds protesters jogged in place outside of Birmingham’s Legion Field on Saturday to rally against police

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Mississippi To Remove Confederate Battle Emblem From The State Flag

Mississippi legislators voted on Sunday to remove the Confederate emblem from the state flag, a historical win following the repeated deaths of Black civilians at the hands of state sanctioned

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Source: MadameNoire

Harvard Law Review President

With his election in 1990, Barack H. Obama became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review in its 103-year history. The Review is managed and edited by 78 student editors selected from Harvard's 1,600 law students. In its first 85 years, The Review has had three Black editors: Charles

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Revels, Hiram Rhoades (1827?–1901)

Hiram Rhoades Revels was the first African American United States Senator, filling the seat left vacant by Jefferson Davis in 1861 when Mississippi seceded from the

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Source: Black Past

Black America’s Conflicted History with the Insurrection Act

Cotton appeared on Fox News where he offered, “[I]f necessary, the president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support our local law enforcement and ensure that this violence ends tonight . . .not one more

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Community Reflections on Justice for George Floyd and the 2020 I Can’t Breath Rebellion

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

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