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Trump's dismal dismissal of police killings of Black people
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Ohio woman calls police on Black man loading groceries into his own car
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Alabama State University Establishes George Floyd/Greg Gunn Memorial Scholarship - Watch The Yard
By Lois G. Russell/ASU. Alabama State University President, Dr. Quinton T. Ross Jr., announced today that the University has established the George Floyd/Greg Gunn Memorial Scholarship in honor of the memory of two men who lost their lives unjustly at the hands of law enforcement officers. “During
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