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Attendees raise fists in remembrance of George Floyd on the two-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder
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Philly vigil held to commemorate 2 years since George Floyd’s murder

More than police accountability — Black workers demand economic and social justice.

1 day ago

President Joe Biden speaks at a podium.
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Biden to sign policing order on Floyd anniversary: AP source

The executive order includes changes to policies on use of force and restrictions on the flow of surplus military hardware to local police.

3 days ago

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Black Lives Matter vigils return to the Unitarian Society of Germantown

The Unitarian Society of Germantown will be holding weekly vigils every Tuesday evening, all with the same message: Black Lives Matter.

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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, a gate opens to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard President Lawrence Bacow announced Tuesday, April 26, 2022 that the university is committing $100 million to study its ties to slavery and create a
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Harvard pledges $100 million to atone for role in slavery

President Lawrence Bacow announced the funding as Harvard released a new report detailing many ways the college benefited from slavery and perpetuated racial inequality.

1 month ago

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Video shows Michigan police officer shot Patrick Lyoya in the head

Video shows a Michigan police officer struggling with a Black man over a Taser before fatally shooting him in the head while the man was face down on the ground.

1 month ago

File photo: People march at a rally for Amir Locke on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, in Minneapolis. Minnesota prosecutors declined to file charges Wednesday, April 6, 2022, against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in a downtown apartment in February
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No charges filed in no-knock warrant killing of Amir Locke

prosecutors have declined to file charges against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant.

2 months ago

A March 24 dress rehearsal for
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Arts & Entertainment

George Floyd remembered in new choral work

In "A Knee on the Neck," composer Adolphus Hailstork and librettist Herbert Martin pay tribute to Floyd's memory and offer hope for the future.

2 months ago

A man adjusts a sign near a memorial at the scene in the Columbus, Ohio neighborhood Friday, April 23, 2021 where 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant was fatally shot by police as she swung at two other people with a knife on Tuesday, April 20. (AP Photo/Farnoush Amiri)
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Ohio officer cleared in shooting of teenager Ma’Khia Bryant

Bryant was killed in April by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon as she swung a knife at another young woman. Bryant was Black and Reardon is white.

3 months ago

Former Louisville Police officer Brett Hankison discusses the muzzle flashes that he saw coming from the apartment as is questioned by the prosecution, Wednesday, March 2, 2022, in Louisville, Ky
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Ex-officer cleared in shooting during Breonna Taylor raid

The jury on Thursday found Brett Hankison not guilty of three counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots that ripped into a neighboring apartment.

3 months ago

Rev. Al Sharpton, left, president of the National Action Network (NAN), and Mayor Eric Adams, right, stand next to Sybrina Fulton, center, the mother of Trayvon Martin, as she address a rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of her son’s killing, Saturday Feb. 26, 2022, at NAN’s Harlem headquarters in New York. “Today is a bittersweet day,” said Fulton, who with her family created the Trayvon Martin Foundation to raise awareness of gun violence
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Trayvon Martin’s mother: ‘Don’t give up’ fight for justice

Sybrina Fulton attended Saturday's meeting of the National Action Network, the civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton in New York City.

3 months ago

People in Los Angeles walk in a silent protest march on April 9, 2012, to demand justice for the killing of Trayvon Martin. (David McNew/Getty Images)
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Trayvon Martin’s killing 10 years ago changed the tenor of democracy

The Black teen's killing on Feb. 26, 2012, helped spark Black Lives Matter.

3 months ago

FILE - In this image from police body camera video shown as evidence in court, Minneapolis police Officers Thomas Lane, left, and J. Alexander Kueng, second from right, gather information as they take George Floyd into custody outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis, on May 25, 2020. Former police Officers Tou Thao, Kueng and Lane are on trial in federal court accused of violating Floyd's civil rights as fellow Officer Derek Chauvin killed him. (Minneapolis Police Department via AP, File)
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3 ex-cops convicted of rights violations in Floyd killing

Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck.

3 months ago

Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison prepares to leave the courtroom during a recess Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. Prosecutors begin their case against a the only officer charged, former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid
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Ex-officer in Breonna Taylor raid said he saw AR-15 fire

Brett Hankison is charged with wanton endangerment for shooting through Taylor’s apartment into the home of her neighbor.

3 months ago

Colin Kaepernick, co-creator of the Netflix dramatic limited series, Colin in Black and White, attends the series premiere on Oct. 28, 2021. The former NFL quarterback has launched an initiative to offer free second autopsies in police-related deaths. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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Community

Colin Kaepernick launches new initiative to offer autopsies for police-related deaths

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced the start of a new initiative to offer free second autopsies to family members of anyone whose death is "police-related."

3 months ago

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New Jersey has struggled for centuries to talk about reparations. Can that change in 2022?

For decades, Black state lawmakers have tried unsuccessfully to move legislation that would require New Jersey to talk about reparations.

3 months ago

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