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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.
A group of artists have painted a large mural in honor of Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black woman who was murdered by police officers.
A portrait of the Former President of Sierra Leone – Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma was today, Tuesday June 30th 2020, tendered in evidence at the Freetown Magistrate Court No. 1 by the State in support of its libel allegations against one of the country’s former cabinet minister and aspirant for the presidency, Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden.
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Hon. Charles Francis Margai who is representing Dr. Blyden did not cross-examine the Exhibit Clerk but he objected to the tendering of the portrait and the other items on several grounds.
The first Prosecution witness, under the skillful cross-examination of the former Attorney-General Charles Margai, confessed that although the search warrants only authorized the Police to take away items believed to contain subversive materials, at the time they took the laptops and mobile phones, the police had no evidence of anything subversive in them.
The witness has already confessed to the court that even though Dr. Blyden requested that she should be present when they are examining her laptops and the phones, the Police deliberately chose to open the laptops and phones and tamper with them in the absence of Dr. Sylvia Blyden.
And it is with respect to this libel case that the portrait of the former president Ernest Bai Koroma, allegedly found hanging on a wall in Sylvia Blyden’s house by the Police, was today tendered as one of the offensive evidence presented by the prosecution to prove their case against Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden.
Jack Daniel's Wants Black Creativity To Be At The Forefront Of Its Art & Music Tour
A 7,000-square-foot mural honoring Breonna Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, has been put in a Maryland park.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville police officers who fatally shot Breonna Taylor while serving a warrant were told she should be home alone because the main target of the narcotics investigation was elsewhere, according to an interview with one of the detectives who served the warrant. Taylor was shot eight times after officers used a []
One of the first things I heard from Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican Senator, was a plan for a study of 18 months.
Their bill leaves a big loophole for having no action against renegade police.
Senator Lindsey Graham angrily lectured us about what the Obama Administration didn’t do on the issue of police reform during his eight years in office without a word that mentioned all the times the Republicans, as they promised—tried to make him fail.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually said that Senator Scott, to their surprise, told them he had been stopped by the police!
At least somebody on Capitol Hill recognizes the horrible message sent to Black America having people in a place of honor whose very presence in a statue, a portrait or a name carved somewhere on government property, continues to be a racist act.
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Ula Ekmecic, 16, from Roosevelt High School in Seattle chose an Opinion essay headlined “I’m a Black American.
All my friends have to do is re-curate their Instagram feeds.
Since the outcry following the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter to the forefront of news, social media, and daily conversation, I have seen people come together for humanity in a way I have never before.
Ava on “I’m Finally an Angry Black Man”
Benjamin Choi on “They Fled Asia as Refugees.
Bethany on “Doctors are Covid’s First Historians”
Elizabeth Hirschfeld on “America, This Is Your Chance”
Ellie Klibaner-Schiff on “New York Times Says Senator’s Op-Ed Did Not Meet Standards”
Moniola on “I’m Finally an Angry Black Man”
Rina on “Why I’ve Stopped Telling People I’m Not Chinese”
Samantha on “Silver Lining to the Mask?
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Hundreds of people rallied at Kentuckys capitol on Thursday to urge action in the investigation of three officers in the fatal police shooting of a Black woman, Breonna Taylor, at her Louisville home. Taylors family, hip hop artists and civil rights lawyers addressed a large crowd on the steps of the []
Driving by Vibe Street Studios on 16th Avenue South at 12th Street on Birmingham’s Southside, it is easy to see the mural of Breonna Taylor, one of the many African Americans who have been slain at the hands of police.
“The sad thing was there’s not enough hands,” said Diva Reese, the artist behind the drawing.
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The boarded-up Vibe Street Studios gave Reese a chance to use her voice.
Reese felt that Taylor’s death at the hands of police had been overshadowed by the killings of George Floyd and others.
“I want the officers who killed Breonna Taylor to be arrested and charged,” Reese said.
Ben Crump called for a new, independent prosecutor to re-open the legal investigation into Breonna Taylor's killing after a grand juror suggested that the Kentucky attorney general's office lied.
Protestors who gathered in Jackson Square Park in Louisville, Kentucky to continue their calls for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor were set upon by gunfire on by an unknown assailant on Saturday night.
According to AP, it’s at least the second shooting that has taken place in Jackson Park Square since protests for Breonna Taylor began last month.
Protests there have continued unabated in Louisville for the 26-year-old who was shot and killed by police in her home on March 13.
No police officers have been charged in Taylor’s death, though prosecutors initially charged her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, with attempted murder for firing on the cops who entered their home after midnight on a “no-knock” warrant.
Source: 1 Person Killed, Another Injured After Shooter Fires on Breonna Taylor Protest in Louisville
Georgia Marching Band Drops Song From 'Gone With The Wind' For 'Georgia On My Mind'
The University of Georgia marching band has bade farewell to Gone with the Wind.
The Redcoat Band's acting director, Brett Bawcum, told members that going forward, their repertoire will no longer include \"Tara's Theme\" from the controversial 1939 film.
\"Though the tradition has been under discussion for months within the band, the current social climate has highlighted the urgency of addressing it and made me conscious of the message that could be interpreted by delay,\" Bawcum said in a letter dated Wednesday.
For years, the song had been a mainstay of post-game performances by the University of Georgia's marching band, affectionately named the Redcoats for their uniforms.
The decision to drop \"Tara's Theme\" had been under discussion for months, Bawcum added, but the \"current social climate\" — dominated as it is by widespread outrage over police killings of black people — gave band officials a sense of urgency.
Breonna Taylor's family is once again speaking out about new details regarding the murder of the 26-year old EMT after a new report reveals that she was actually still alive after being shot in her home.
On Monday (Jul 6), Breonna Taylor’s family, who is currently in a lawsuit against police and the city of Louisville, revealed that Taylor was actually still alive after being shot more than 8 times while sleeping in her bed and only succumbed to her injuries after being denied medical attention by the detectives.
As if the forthcoming Candyman could get any scarier, director Nia DaCosta just shared a chilling new teaser that reveals the killer’s origin story.
And much like the history of America, it’s steeped in what DaCosta calls “Black pain.”
The director shared the teaser on Twitter Wednesday, writing in the caption: “CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and Black pain, is about unwilling martyrs.
The final scene of the teaser, which features “shadow puppetry” by Manual Cinema, explains Candyman’s origin as a Black painter, who befalls to a lynch mob after falling in love with a White woman whose portrait he captured.
Desperate to make a name for himself in his stalling career, McCoy begins painting versions of Candyman and unknowingly opens a door for the menacing to continue.
“These new negroes are more dangerous than the KKK. The Blacks who got into politics after slavery and Jim Crow did things to uplift other Blacks, but not today,\" said African-American News&Issues publisher Roy Douglas Malonson.
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The Congressional Black Caucus has introduced “The Justice in Policing Act of 2020,” legislation designed to make the nation’s police more accountable to the nation’s citizens, especially its black citizens, in the wake of the brutal in police custody death of George Floyd.
LISTING THE NAMES OF BLACKS KILLED BY POLICE
Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the out the names of other unarmed black men and women killed by police.
Bass (D., California) said the names of several victims before asking other members of the CBC to shout out the names of other black men and black women killed by police.
In the wake of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s murders, we must ask ourselves: how many more times must our families and our communities be put through the trauma of an unarmed black man or a woman’s killing at the hands of police who are sworn to protect and serve them?
U.S. POLICE KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN POLICE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY
The CBC introduced the legislation on Monday, June 15, the same day it was reported that U.S. police kill more people than in any other developed country.
By Dylan Lovan and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn The Associated Press The police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor described seeing only 'shadowy mass' and said he didn't recall firing the 16 bullets later matched to his gun. As she lay bleeding, Taylor's boyfriend called his mother before dialing 911. And neighbors roused by the gunfire […]
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Common, Jemele Hill and others will join the NBA player.
