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MONTELE ADAMS Montele Adams of Hephzibah earned a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice from The Citadel during the South Carolina Corps of Cadets virtual commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 9. Nearly 600 cadets accepted their diplomas, and about 30 percent of the class accepted commissions as U.S. military officers in all branches of service. JENNIFER NAAS Jennifer Naas, a […]

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LOS ANGELES – Several Black activists are demanding that local officials withdraw their support of embattled District Attorney Jackie Lacey or face mass protests and political opposition during their own election campaigns this

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Will CA amend its constitution post-protests?

(CALMATTERS) – This week, lawmakers will consider several measures that have taken on newfound significance amid widespread protests over racism and calls for criminal justice

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San Francisco Mayor, Supervisor to Defund Police Department to Invest in Black Community

Elected officials are hearing the voices of millions of people around the world pleading for police departments to be defunded after the recent deaths of black men and women killed by police

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Civil Rights Attorney Areva Martin on the Killing of George Floyd and Protesting at the Polls (Video)

For many, the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis last week was just the tipping

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Biden Urged To Pick Black VP, Not Klobuchar As Minneapolis Killing Stokes Racial Tensions

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Biden promises police changes without stripping funding

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cosby Appeal – Voice and Viewpoint

In a significant legal victory for Bill Cosby, the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of his 2018 conviction on charges of indecent aggravated

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Mayor Mike Duggan and Detroit Police Chief Clarify Curfew and Discuss trust between Detroit Residents and Police

In what has been an emotional week of civil unrest in Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan and Police Chief James Craig held a press conference to explain why they decided to implement a curfew in the city of Detroit following the protests that have taken place in Detroit over the last

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Obama condemns violence and calls for change in wake of George Floyd protests | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Washington – Former President Barack Obama on Monday condemned violence amidprotests over the death of George Floyd and police brutality and called for political solutions to address protesters’ grievances about criminal

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Elijah McClain: Video of Fatal Police Beating Sparks Calls For Investigation

At least two million people have signed a petition calling for law enforcement officials in Aurora, Colorado to reopen an investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old who died in August 2019 after police officers stopped him, according to USA

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Sports moves ahead amidst great uncertainty

Even as many U.S. states are seeing a serious uptick in COVID confirmed cases, especially in Florida, the WNBA announced last week that they will play their season

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Bill Cosby Allowed to Appeal His 2018 Sexual Assault Conviction

Cosby will now get to appeal two crucial elements of the conviction, which Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court announced on

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dream hampton On Our Fascination With Cops, Defunding The Police & Why Patriarchy Is Her Biggest Fear

Recently, Color of Change (COC) published a report, Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre about how the crime genre glamorizes policing to the detriment of the entire country, but Black people, the victim of police

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Kamala Harris's Police Reform Push Becomes Running Mate Tryout

Kamala Harris’s push for police reform in the Senate is shaping up as an audition for the job of Joe Biden’s vice president, as she makes herself a highly public voice for change after years as a no-nonsense prosecutor.By promoting a bill to ban police chokeholds and make other changes -- and by

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Juneteenth was a time to honor the memory of those who have lost their lives to racial violence

– General Order No. 3 as read by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865

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WEST: Military Must Not Be Used Against Peaceful Protestors, Condemns Trump’s Grandstanding

DALLAS–State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas), candidate for U.S. Senate in the July 14 Democratic Primary Runoff, issued the following Statement on

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Labor Leaders & Black Lives Join Forces in the Fight for Divestment from the Police Department | L.A. Focus Newspaper

A coalition of Black Lives, labor, and community leaders held a small press conference Monday afternoon on the steps of City Hall amid continued demands to end systemic racism and defund police

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Too many African American children are born in shackles

Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist – often created by red-lining – worsened by savage inequality of schools and health care and job

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Tale of two murals

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Attorney General Bill Barr Denies Nation's Police Are Systemically Racist

Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday that he does not believe that there is systemic racism in the nation’s police force, contradicting a staggering body of evidence that shows racial bias in virtually every part of the American criminal justice

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De Blasio Makes Juneteenth An Official New York City Holiday

De Blasio Makes Juneteenth An Official New York City Holiday

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Too many African American children are born in shackles

Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist—often created by red-lining— worsened by savage inequality of schools and health care and job

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Congress Stalls on Policing Overhaul, Despite Public Outcry

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is hitting an impasse on policing legislation, as Senate Democrats on Tuesday opposed a Republican proposal as inadequate, leaving the parties to decide whether to take on the hard job of negotiating a compromise or walk away despite public outcry over the killings of

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Mourners Bid Farewell to Rayshard Brooks at Historic Church

ATLANTA (AP) — Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral filled with historical echoes and a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times

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Elijah McClain Could Have Been My Brother - Blavity

Upon a quick Google search, I was able to find the story of the deeply disturbing murder of Elijah McClain in none other than my hometown of

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Police Protect Black Americans?

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COMMENTARY: ENOUGH

The tragic way in which George Floyd was murdered has conjured up so many past and recent memories of Black people that have fallen victim to homegrown, domestic terrorism, at the hands of members of law enforcement or those who just simply despise Black

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Statement from the Urban League of Greater Atlanta on Civil Unrest in the Nation

The Leaders of the Urban League Movement, including National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial, Urban League of Greater Atlanta President/CEO Nancy A. Flake Johnson, and all affiliate presidents, hereby issue the following statement in response to the civil unrest sweeping the

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Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn’t hide his past

About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendy’s parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and equality nationwide — Brooks gave an interview to an advocacy group about his years of struggle in the

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Sibongiseni Gabada killing: NPA to review provisional withdrawal of charges against suspect

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it has decided to review as a matter of urgency the decision to provisionally withdraw the charges against a man accused of murdering a Khayelitsha

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