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Black Lives Matter at 7 years and the meaning of this movement-moment | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Melina Abdullah, Los Angeles Sentinel Contributing Writer “We are the diviners of change!” proclaims Janaya “Future” Khan. Three thousand people … significantly young and Black … fill the massive concrete steps at Los Angeles City Hall, pouring out onto the sidewalk, into the street, extending
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Abolishing the police is about customer service, not to protect and serve
READ MORE: Abolishing the police: It’s time to throw the whole system away and start over
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Derek Chauvin, Police Officer Charged in George Floyd's Death, Accused of Felony Tax Evasion
Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis police officer who has been charged with second-degree murder for the police killing of George Floyd is now facing additional jail time. Chauvin and his…
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Spike Lee doc of David Byrne's Broadway show to open TIFF - Black News Channel
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 45th Toronto International Film Festival will be a much diminished event this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has an opening-night film. Spike Lee's filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway theatrical concert 'American Utopia' will kick
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Suspect nabbed for the murder of an elderly woman
Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga commended the swift response by the police and also thanked the community for their assistance
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Gov. Newsom should sign AB 1460. It is vital to preparing students educationally and socially for the world in which they will live, work and eventually lead. - Los Angeles Sentinel

For decades, Ethnic Studies faculty, students and staff have argued and struggled to have Ethnic Studies as a requirement in the university curriculum as an indispensable contribution to a truly inclusive and quality education. Gov. Newsom should sign AB 1460 when it reaches his desk this

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Video Shows NYPD Cop Choking Black Man Weeks After Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act Is Passed
A Queens man is caught on camera in a graphic encounter with the police.
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Tech And Policing Amidst Pandemic And Protests - Blavity
Now, many Americans are experiencing, for the first time, a reality that Black people in this country have been living with since 1619: white supremacist terrorism supported by
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Nigeria: Motor Crashes Remain the Leading Cause of Unintentional Injury
Even in a safety conscious country such as the United State of America, failure to wear their seatbelts has let to avoidable deaths and injuries among teens and adults who died were unrestrained as at the time of the
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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS
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State violence, a crisis of legitimacy, and the path to true public safety - African American News Today - EIN News
has done exactly that to Black Americans. Slavery was violence. Reinstituting slavery by, and soaked in racism. Black Americans have always known that. White trust is measured or conceived, African Americans, particularly those who are poor
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Newly Promoted Chicago Deputy Police Chief Found Dead Of Apparent Suicide
Newly promoted Chicago Police Deputy Chief Dion Boyd was found dead Tuesday morning of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound
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Black players in ice hockey
The history of black players in North American ice hockey has roots dating back to the late 19th century. The first black ice hockey star was Herb Carnegie during the Great Depression. Willie ORee broke the NHL’s black color barrier with the Boston Bruins.[NB
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Protests Erupt in Detroit Following Fatal Police Shooting of 20-Year-Old Hakim Littleton – The Black Chronicle
[ad_1] Police officers arrested eight people during a protest in Detroit Friday night over the police shooting of a 20-year-old black man. Chaos broke out in the neighborhood of San Juan near McNichols Road on the city’s northwest side as dozens of people began yelling at police and throwing bricks
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White man allegedly posed as a protester to vandalize buildings in Minneapolis | BlackPressUSA
ROLLING OUT — The video, posted by Twitter user @dyllyp, shows a White man, dressed in all-black with a gas mask on his face, knocking out windows at an AutoZone in Minneapolis. Many believe that he helped to start the vandalism that turned into chaos on the night of May 28.
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Laingsburg police recover copper cables worth R100 000
Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in Laingsburg also arrested six suspects for cable theft and the damage of infrastructure.
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Dems Propose Banning Chokeholds, No-Knock Entries for US Police Over Killings of African-American - African American News Today - EIN News
The bill stops short of the demands of protesters to "defund" the police in the country, but imposes new obligations without providing additional funding.
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African American Women Writers: Novelists, Poets, More
African American women writers have helped to bring the black womans experience to life for millions of readers. Theyve written of what it was like to live in slavery, what Jim Crow America was like, what 20th and 21st century America have been like for black women. On the following pages, youll
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When The World Stays Inside Cleverly Conveys To Kids That There’s Fun To Be Had At Home - Milwaukee Community Journal
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, July 13, 2020 — In March 2020, the whole world retreated indoors, inspiring children’s book author Mikey Woz to create something to help kids everywhere find the silver lining. The result, When the World Stays Inside, is a refreshingly positive, whimsical book
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Minnesota Passes Police Reform Bill Two Months After George Floyd’s Death
The Minnesota Police Accountability Act would ban chokeholds and neck restraints as well as increase use of force reporting.
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Tomlinson, Maurice (1971- )
Maurice Tomlinson is one of the most well-known gay rights activists in the world. He is an attorney-at-law, law lecturer, journalist, and HIV/AIDS and LGBTI (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Intersexual) activist in Jamaica and the
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Prayer Vigil Planned for 8-year-old Killed at Riverchase Galleria Mall | The Birmingham Times
Times staff report A prayer vigil will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 9, in the upper, far left parking lot of the Macy’s Department Store at the Riverchase Galleria in memory of 8-year old, Royta Giles, who died in tragic shooting that took place at the Riverchase Galleria Mall on
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American Policing Has Always Been About Enforcing White Supremacy
The Brooklyn College professor and author of “The End of Policing,” and his academic peers, all experts in the history of American policing and police brutality, have been called on a lot since mass protests sprang up nationwide in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and
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Mayor Woodfin Announces Task Force to Review Police Dept.
By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Following up on his pledge to review safety standards of the Birmingham police department, Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday announced the city’s new Public Safety Task Force during a virtual press conference from City Hall. The announcement comes two months
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Manuel Ellis: Tacoma Man Died In Police Custody, Saying He 'Can't Breathe'
Matthew Ellis speaks at a vigil at the intersection where his brother, Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old black man, died in police custody in
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Thousands march for Adama Traore in Paris | Africanews
Thousands marched in Paris Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of a black man in police custody in the French
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Tanzania: Mkapa Died of Cardiac Arrest - Family
[Daily News] THE former President Benjamin William Mkapa died of cardiac arrest, his family revealed yesterday. A family spokesperson, Mr William Erio told thousands of mourners at the Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam yesterday that Mzee Mkapa, who led the country from 1995 to 2005 died peacefully at
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The Supreme Court Built America’s Broken Policing System And It’s Working Just As Intended
For over 50 years, the court has provided "super powers" to American police that free them to stop and frisk, use deadly force and evade accountability.
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Lewis G. Clarke: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Forgotten Hero
In the article below Seattle historian Carver Clark Gayton describes his most prominent ancestor, Lewis G. Clarke, who is widely considered to be the model for one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s main characters in her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Here Gayton describes Clarke’s evolving relationship with
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The Impact of COVID-19 in Our Community: Let's Not Put Our Health at Risk | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cite several possible reasons that Black Americans are more affected. One is that many of us live in more highly populated areas where it’s more difficult to practice physical distancing from one another. Many of us also live in
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