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Africa: Black Lives Matter - Black Pride and Dignity, Too!
Police brutality and gross mistreatment across the justice system, discrimination across public services, unwelcoming gestures (micro aggressions) in the school hallways and so on, are just some of the daily phenomena that black people face all around the
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Transit Workers Union Backs Members Who Refuse Transporting Minneapolis Police
The union representing more than 200,000 public transit workers in the U.S. and Canada said its members in Minneapolis have the right to refuse to transport police, in solidarity with protests over the police killing of George
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Biggs, Lodie (?--?)
Lodie Biggs, one of the few black professional women in pre-World War II Seattle, was also a significant political activist in the 1920s and 1930s.  She was also involved with the transformation of the Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the
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J.R. Smith Not Expected To Face Charges After Beating Up Alleged LA Vandal
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Zoom Parties, Missed Proms, Uncertain Futures. High School Seniors Share What It’s Like To Come Of Age During A Pandemic | The Oklahoma Eagle
The young adults graduating from high school this year will be defined by their Zoom educations and viral TikToks, but also by their lost summer jobs and unpredictable
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During George Floyd Protests, ABC reruns 2016 ‘Black-ish’ Episode Exploring Race, Police – Free Press of Jacksonville
As the country confronts police brutality and mistreatment of black people in the wake of George Floyd‘s killing, ABC rebroadcast a groundbreaking 2016 episode of “Black-ish” on Tuesday that confronted those troubling
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CNN Analyst Van Jones Helped President Trump’s Order On Police Reform
According to a new report, CNN Analyst Van Jones was instrumental in President Donald Trump’s executive order on police
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Minnesota’s Black Newspapers Speak Out Amidst Uprising in Wake of Police Murder of George Floyd
Two editors from Black Press of America newspapers on the frontlines of the uprising in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by four police officers, joined a National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) livestream broadcast on Saturday, May 30, to discuss up-to-the-minute
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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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Protesters Came Out Again In Washington, D.C. — And Some Stayed, Despite Thunderstorm
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Maybe Sheryl Sandberg should be leaning out
As US President Donald Trump and others brazenly use the social network to spread misinformation and foment violence at protests against police brutality, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is clinging to the lame argument that he can’t constitutionally do anything — even as other social media take action and his
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Cariol Horne: The Black cop who was strangely fired for preventing a chokehold on a man
In 2006, Cariol Horne was a few years shy of her 20th as a cop in Buffalo, New York when she and another officer Gregory Kwiatkowski, a white man, accosted a black
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Fathers of NBA players discuss raising strong Black children
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Colin Kaepernick: Protestors 'have the right to fight back' after death of George Floyd
Colin Kaepernick has broken his silence regarding the death of George Floyd, who was killed while in police
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Ramsey Orta, Who Filmed Eric Garner's Death, Released From Prison
Ramsey Orta — the man who shot video of Eric Garner’s 2014 arrest where he was killed by a police officer who held him in a chokehold — was released from prison on May 28, six weeks ahead of the scheduled end of his sentence, New York's PIX 11
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Detroit police officer drives SUV into crowd of protesters
A Detroit police officer drove into a crowd of protesters late Sunday night after people marching against police brutality surrounded the SUV and some jumped on the
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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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Pass It On: Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson’s Book About Leadership Is Coming In July
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PART 3: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA
The tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional, and systemic racism, sparked a spontaneous bon fire of protesting in Atlanta with the killing of Rayshard
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KIEREINI: As fury rages over US police, let’s also look in the
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Ava DuVernay Announces LEAP Initiative Created to Spotlight Police Brutality Through the Arts
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Tammy Duckworth: Trump's Use Of Military Against Protesters Is "Disgusting"
Now, President Donald Trump is using military helicopters ― along with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades ― to intimidate Americans protesting racism and police brutality outside the White
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Coronavirus Update: Economy or Public Health? Reopening States During the Pandemic Has Polarized Us
As the U.S. experiences increases in the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths, leaders remain divided on how to define and implement the way business and life should be conducted going
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Washington, Harold (1922 – 1987)
Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago.  Washington’s mother Bertha Washington was a well-known singer in the
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Faithfull Utterances: Babylon Confusion in 2020
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Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton , in full Huey Percy Newton (born Feb. 17, 1942, Monroe, La., U.S.—died Aug. 22, 1989, Oakland, Calif.), American political activist, cofounder (with Bobby Seale) of the Black Panther Party (originally called Black Panther Party for
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Police across US Speak Out against Minneapolis Custody Death | Afro
Police nationwide, in unequivocal and unprecedented language, have condemned the actions of Minneapolis police in the custody death of a handcuffed Black man who cried for help as an officer knelt on his neck, pinning him to the pavement for at least eight
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