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How Birmingham City Councilors Maintain Contact With Constituents. From a Distance.
Council President William Parker, who represents District 4, said the body has been teaming up to make sure residents stay informed and have what they
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These Are The Minneapolis Activists Leading The Push To Abolish The Police
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Call to Defund the Police Gains Momentum in Oakland
Major cities like Los Angeles and New York City have taken steps to reduce the budgets of their police departments – and in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered last month, the City Council announced plans to completely dismantle the city’s police
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The City of San Diego and the Issue of Race – Voice and Viewpoint
Fourth District City Council Member Monica Montgomery is to be commended for her proposal to create a Department of Race and Equity within the City of San
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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper
Nairobi church faces eviction from public land after losing suit
Nairobi church faces eviction from public land after losing suit
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Bronzeville may get massive $3.5B project | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The site of the former Michael Reese Hospital in Bronzeville may be turned into a massive, mixed-use, 3.5 billion development that could dramatically change the area’s landscape near the
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Assembly member Jose Medina Calls for Councilman Chuck Condor’s Resignation
When Riverside City Council member Chuck Condor retweeted a meme showing three Black men–one a police officer, one dressed in a business suit, possibly meant to depict an attorney, and a young Black man, intimating visually the probability he was a criminal—there was little doubt regarding
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
House owners in Freetown now have new city council rate payment system
This is what the Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr said in a public notice – “ Freetown City Council distribution of property rate demand notice, effective June 11th 2020” – published
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Operation Equity
Although racially restricted housing covenants had been banned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948, various forms of de facto housing segregation kept African Americans relatively isolated spatially in urban areas, including the city of Seattle.  Many white homeowners in the years following the
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Source: Black Past
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Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar (1823-1915)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 17, 1823, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs apprenticed as a carpenter. By his early 20s he was an activist in the abolition movement, sharing platforms with Frederick Douglass and helping in the Underground Railroad. Black intellectual ferment of the era gave him
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Abolishing the police is about customer service, not to protect and serve
READ MORE: Abolishing the police: It’s time to throw the whole system away and start over
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Zimbabwe: Late Dabengwa's Party Scorns 'Useless' Ex-Secretary General Absolom Sikhosana
Opposition Zapu has slammed late Zanu PF politburo member Absolom Sikhosana for being a "useless and harmless" man who did not deserve to be conferred with the highest honour of the
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Ella Jones Makes History As The First Black Mayor In Ferguson – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Remembrance in the Cemetery: In Search of “The Accidental Slaveowner”
In the account below Central Washington University anthropologist Mark Auslander describes why he wrote The Accidental Slaveholder, which describes the curious ways in which the legacy of slavery extend into the contemporary
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Washington, Harold (1922 – 1987)
Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago.  Washington’s mother Bertha Washington was a well-known singer in the
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San Diego City Council Declines Calls to Cut Police Funding – Voice and Viewpoint
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City Council Places Oakland Youth Vote Measure on November Ballot | Post News Group
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting to place an Oakland Youth Vote measure on the November ballot, which would give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in Board of Education
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Simmons, Denise E. ( – )
E. Denise Simmons made history in 2008 by becoming the first openly lesbian African American mayor in the United States. She was selected by fellow city councilors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to serve as mayor of the city for a two-year term from 2008 to
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Deal reached on homeless camps near freeways
LOS ANGELES — Almost 7,000 homeless people living in encampments near freeways, as well as homeless seniors over 65 and others vulnerable to COVID-19, will be brought indoors over the next 18 months under a joint legal agreement signed by the county and city of Los Angeles and approved June 18 by
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MAYOR GARCETTI ANNOUNCES SENIOR STAFF CHANGES - Los Angeles Sentinel
Team will include Andre Herndon and Mary Hodge as Deputy Chiefs of Staff and Breelyn Pete as Deputy Mayor of Legislative and External Affairs The post MAYOR GARCETTI ANNOUNCES SENIOR STAFF CHANGES appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
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What Police Officers Won’t Tell You.
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Executive Director of Civil and Human Rights Join the Mayor of the City Los Angeles to Discuss the Social Reform Within L.A.
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Boston Lawmakers Vote To Ban Use Of Facial Recognition Technology By The City
The city council also voted on Wednesday to prohibit any city official from obtaining such surveillance through third parties. Sponsors said the technology is inaccurate for people of color.
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Alabama Students Throwing COVID Parties as a Contest to See Who Gets Coronavrius
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New Car Insurance Options Start Thursday | The Michigan Chronicle
By Scott McClallen (The Center Square) – Michigan drivers will be able to opt out of unlimited personal injury protection (PIP) insurance and cut costs on their car insurance rate beginning Thursday, when an insurance reform measure goes into effect. The state enacted a no-fault insurance law in
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Fort Worth, Texas, Where the West and the South Meet: A Brief History of the City's African American Community, 1849-2012
In the article below, Fort Worth historian Richard Selcer introduces us to the African American community which has been a presence in this city since its founding in
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Caver, Vivian Leona (1928 - )
Vivian Leona Caver is a civil rights activist in Seattle, Washington.  She directed the Seattle Human Rights Commission between 1975 and 1981, and served briefly in the Washington State Legislature in 1994. Caver was born Vivian Leona Mead in 1928, in Jackson, Tennessee.  Her mother Christine was
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