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Berry Lawson Case (1938)
On March 26, 1938, Berry Lawson, a twenty-seven-year-old African American waiter staying at the Mt. Fuji Hotel located on Yesler Way in downtown Seattle, Washington, was reportedly asleep in a chair in the hotel lobby. He was spotted by three Seattle Police Department officers, who approached
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Law enforcement ties, long delay complicate Arbery case | The Atlanta Voice
Among the questions: Did shooting suspect Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory, both white, get special treatment because the elder McMichael had been a longtime investigator at the Brunswick Circuit District
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Police and National Guardsmen fired on
Police and National Guardsmen fired on demonstrators at North Carolina A&T College. One student was killed and five policemen were injured.
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21
1969
Armed white mob terrorizing Black family in North Carolina captured in surveillance footage
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Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves
The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special
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Civil Rights Timeline
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned
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Somalia: Senior Military Officer Killed in Battle With Somalia Police
A senior military officer identified as Dahir Sheikh Ahmed has been killed in the battle between the police and the Somalia National Army in
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Mozambique
On October 21, 2013, the Renamo opposition movement announced it was abandoning the 1992 peace treaty with the governing FRELIMO party. The opposition and government troops had been battling for about a year. Renamo made the announcement after government troops attacked a Renamo base where Afonso
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21
2013
Out of Control riots
Forty-three persons killed in rebellion in Detroit. Federal troops were called out for the first time since the Detroit riot of 1943 to quell the largest racial rebellion in a U.S. city in the twentieth century. More than two thousand persons were injured and some five thousand were
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1967
New York Draft Riots
On the Monday morning of July 13, 1863, the Enrollment
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1863
Defying Order, Baltimore Pastor Holds Services | Afro
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Alleged Murderer Was Encouraged By Cops To Be A Vigilante
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Bobby Brown's Oldest Son Landon on Growing Up with Bobby & Whitney
Landon Brown recently sat down with VladTV for an exclusive interview, where he shared his thoughts on his father Bobby claiming that Whitney Houston had an affair with 2Pac during their marriage. When asked what he thought about the revelation, Landon admitted that he thought it was weird when he
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Nigerians take the law into their own hands to fight COVID-19 | Afro
Some Nigerians who rejected a government order to stay in place and left COVID-19 affected states for home are being turned in by their own
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Re: Swastikas in Santee – Voice and Viewpoint
Before we address this particular incident, we pause to recall some of the words of Dr. Martin Luther
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Zimbabwe: Police Brutality Victims to Sue Matanga, Ministers
The duo of Sethukani Ncube and Weston Chadomba of Bulawayo, as well as Gweru based Trymore Mhari, suffered a dislocated shoulder, hearing problems as well as broken arm after being severely assaulted by police officers and soldiers enforcing the nationwide lockdown
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Kenya: Al-Shabaab Suspects Destroy Safaricom Mast in Wajir
Suspected Al-shabaab militants have destroyed a Safaricom communication mast in Khorof Kharar, Wajir in a predawn
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Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech
To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther
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Mar
7
1965
Louisville seeks US review of police killing of Breonna Taylor
Louisville officials have now asked the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI to review the police department’s internal investigation of the killing of a black woman by officers raiding her home two months
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Hundreds demand justice for Arbery at Georgia rally | The Atlanta Voice
Justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed during a pursuit by a white man and his son in Georgia, isn’t just prison time for his killers — it’s changes in a local justice system that never charged them with a crime, rallygoers said
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Lewis, John R. (1940- )
John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on February 21, 1940.  In 1961 he received a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee.  In 1967 he received an additional B.A. from Fisk University located in
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1940
Rwandan Genocide Fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, Arrested After 25 Years On the Run
French police arrested one of the last key suspects sought over the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, prosecutors and police
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New York Police Arrest 294 at Worlds Fair
New York police arrested 294 demonstrators at opening of World Fair.
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#StayWoke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Dangerous Times For African Americans | The Oklahoma Eagle
With the stress involved with shuttering in, loss of jobs, and other social pressures there has been a noticeable hike in racist incidents and police
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A Timeline of Suge Knight's Criminal History
Once upon a time, Suge Marion Knight was the king of the west coast. He ran the studio and the streets. His friends ranged from famous rap stars to gang lords. Those days are
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Biography of California Attorney General Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964, to a black Stanford University professor and a Tamil Indian physician mother, Harris became the first California attorney general with African American or South Asian ancestry after defeating Republican rival Steve Cooley in the 2010 election for the
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'No mask, no roti, no service' -Trinidad PM
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has advised citizens to obey public health regulations to wear masks when entering public
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Robert Williams
Robert Williams , in full Robert Franklin Williams (born February 26, 1925, Monroe, North Carolina, U.S.—died October 15, 1996, Baldwin, Michigan), American civil rights leader known for taking a militant stance against racism decades before the Black Power and black nationalist movements of the
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