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#SayHerName and see the beautifully captured portrait of Breonna Taylorat theSmithsonian on Friday. Taylor, whose 2020 death sparked nationwide protests, will have a portrait displayed on the fourth floor of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) as part of the museum’s new exhibition, 'Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.' In the portrait, Taylor […]
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
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While one of the three officers involved in Breonna Taylor‘s shooting death was fired after the preventable killing, the other two remain gainfully employed by the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Meanwhile, Louisville Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Officer Myles Cosgrove have avoided being terminated even though they also fired their weapons during the botched execution of a no-knock search warrant that wasn’t only at the wrong location but also in search of a suspect who was already in custody.
No-knock warrants have a deadly history of going wrong and in this case added a new installment on the long list of normal activities that Black people apparently cannot do without fear of being killed by police: sleep.
In Taylor’s case, even though the actual address of the actual suspected “trap house” was 10 miles away from her home, police still arrested Walker and charged him with the attempted murder of a police officer.
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One of the grand jurors responsible for the weak indictment against a Louisville police officer involved in Breonna Taylor's killing suggested Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron lied during his presentation of the case.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Amid nationwide unrest and a global pandemic that wrecked the state budget, Tennessee lawmakers advanced one of the strictest abortion bans in the country as most Tennesseans were asleep Friday and largely unaware the GOP-dominant General Assembly had taken up the controversial proposal.
The bill’s passage shocked Democratic lawmakers and reproductive rights advocates who had been assured for weeks that the anti-abortion measure would not be considered in the Senate.
Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights — the plaintiffs in the case — declared that Tennessee was the first state to pass an abortion ban since the coronavirus outbreak hit the United States.
Also tucked in Tennessee’s 38-page bill is a requirement that women seeking an abortion undergo an ultrasound and have the doctor describe and display the image to her.
After George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked nationwide protests and unrest, Tennessee Republicans stirred more outrage locally by spiking a resolution this week for Ashanti Nikole Posey, a Black teen shot and killed this year.
Just a few blocks away from Black Lives Matter Plaza lies Union Station, where dozens of tents line the streets, sheltering the city’s disproportionately Black homeless population.
I stare and they still smile as they face a street that tells them their Black lives matter, even though it is too late.
There is no value in street names or murals telling us Black lives matter, when policies and racial disparities say quite the opposite.
In New York City, notorious for stop-and-frisk and the police murder of Eric Garner, Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to name a \"Black Lives Matter\" street in every borough.
I walk away from the plaza filled with frustration, at a crossroads of the streets telling Black lives we do not matter yet murals echoing the opposite.
