Grand Jury Testimony From Breonna Taylor Case Released

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Grand Jury Testimony From Breonna Taylor Case Released

A court released more than 20 hours of recorded grand jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case Friday after a juror spoke out about the charges.

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Born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison is an American author, editor and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature for being an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of

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The cigarette connection: A look back at the deaths of Eric Garner and George Floyd

Although notice on cigarette packs warn that smoking the sticks can cause mouth and throat cancer, in addition to being a leading cause of death, African Americans Eric Garner and George Floyd would perish via police brutalities albeit with a cigarette

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(1964) Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”

By March 1964, Malcolm X had broken with the Nation of Islam. In the speech below, given on April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, he explains his departure and his reason for establishing a separation between his religion and his politics. He also makes clear that those politics are still rooted in black

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Black Panther Party

Founded in October of 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) became the most famous black power organization of the late 1960s. Newton and Seale met in 1965 at Merritt College where they were exposed to a burgeoning wave of Black

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Young, Andrew (Seattle)

Andrew J. Young (not related to Martin Luther King’s lieutenant and Southern Christian Leadership Conference member of the same name) was a civil rights activist in Seattle during the middle part of the twentieth century. A lawyer, Young first reached prominence when he served as the assistant

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Ancestry of Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in 1954 in rural Mississippi, the child of a love affair between Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee. Her parents never married, and Oprah spent much of her youth being shuttled between various relatives. From her troubled childhood, Oprah Winfrey has grown into a household

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Three Men Involved In The Killing Of Ahmaud Arbery Have Been Indicted On Murder Charges - Blavity

Update (June 24, 2020): The three men involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery have been indicted on murder charges by a grand jury, CNN

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Former Atlanta CFO Jim Beard indicted on wire fraud, theft, more

by Andrea Watson The City of Atlanta's former Chief Financial Officer, Jimmie 'Jim' A. Beard, has been charged in an eight-count federal indictment Former Atlanta chief financial officer Jim Beard … Continued

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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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Cayton, Horace Roscoe, Jr. (1903-1970)

Horace Roscoe Cayton, Jr., was the son of Horace and Susie Cayton and the grandson of Hiram R. Revels, the first black U.S. Senator. After graduation from Seattles Franklin High School and the University of Washington, Cayton attended the University of Chicago. It was in Chicago that his career as

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United Black Front (UBF) or Black United Front (BUF)

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Obama, Michelle Robinson (1964- )

On January 20, 2009, with the Presidential swearing in of her husband Barack Obama, Michelle Robinson Obama became the first person of African American descent to become First Lady of the United

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Grand Jury Charges Ed Buck with Four Additional Felonies, Including that He Enticed Victims to Travel Interstate to Engage in Prostitution - Los Angeles Sentinel

A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Edward Buck with four additional felonies, including that he allegedly enticed victims – including a man who died at his West Hollywood apartment after he administered drugs to him – to travel interstate to engage in

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Breonna Taylor's family attorney calls investigation a coverup - L.A. Focus Newspaper

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Exclusive: Blavity Publishes Erica Garner's Final Essay On Her Relentless Fight For Justice - Blavity

In the three years after her father’s death, Erica marched, rallied, advocated, got involved politically and wrote essays calling on prosecutors to release their findings from a three-year federal civil rights investigation by the Justice Department into her

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Mississippi to Drop Charge of White Ex-Cop in Man’s Death | Afro

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1959

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(1867) Rev. E. J. Adams, “These are Revolutionary Times”

On March 2, 1867, Congress overrode President Andrew Johnsons vetoes and passed a series of Reconstruction acts which would, among other things, establish new governments in the ex-Confederate states based for the first time on universal male suffrage. The first step in this process involved the

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Jefferson, William J. (1947-- )

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Grand Jury Indicts Three Men Accused Of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery

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Justice Department Will Investigate Ahmaud Arbery’s Death As A Hate Crime According To Family’s Attorney

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Top 10 Richest African Americans

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Merriwether, Raymond (1924–2011)

Raymond (Ray) Merriwether, prominent Seattle, Washington African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper owner, was born in Taylor, Texas on June 19, 1924 to Colie and Annie Merriwether. After graduating from high school Merriwether attended barber school and served a short time

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