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This Lifetime Movie Has An Important Message In Today's 'Dark' World

The Emmy-winning actor believes there’s an important message in her latest film, “The Regina Smith Story.”

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A licensed firearm holder who was held with more ammunition than he is legally allowed got an extension of his bail until January 16, 2024 when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Wednesday. The St Catherine businessman, Raul...

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Derek Chauvin will appear in court for the first time two weeks after George Floyd's death | The Atlanta Voice

Nine Minneapolis City Council members made a commitment this week to start the process of defunding and “dismantling” the police department, City Council President Lisa Bender said

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12 Must See Black History Movies

Decades of struggle and hardship paid off when United States elected a black president. It is still too early to say that discrimination has been completely abolished from U.S as different races are being targeted instead of blacks. The blacks who used to be traded to western countries and kept as

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‘The Pandemic Of Racism’ Killed George Floyd, Says Family Attorney At Memorial

The attorney for George Floyd’s family, Ben Crump, said the “pandemic of racism” was responsible for Floyd’s death last week at the hands of

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Afro e-Edition 05-24-2024

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Protests Continue Nationwide Over George Floyd Killing In Minneapolis

Nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd — the Black man who died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck — continued Friday evening as Americans demanded that those involved face

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Civil Rights Attorney Areva Martin on the Killing of George Floyd and Protesting at the Polls (Video)

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

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Benjamin Crump says first degree murder charge still possible in George Floyd case

Today Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump who is representing the family of George Floyd was a guest on SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” and told Madison he believes a first-degree murder charge is still possible based on newly discovered evidence in the killing of George Floyd, a Minneapolis

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South Africa: Constitutional Court Accused of Taking Too Long to Rule On Crucial Election Case

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Benjamin Crump says first degree murder charge still possible in George Floyd case

Today Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump who is representing the family of George Floyd was a guest on SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” and told Madison he believes a first-degree murder charge is still possible based on newly discovered evidence in the killing of George Floyd, a Minneapolis

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More funding for police department, not less, says Birmingham (Ala.) chief

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Isaacs, Cheryl Boone (1949---)

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Algiers Motel Incident (1967)

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Army Grants Posthumous Promotion To Slain ROTC Student

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The Power of the Press: African-American News Publications in the Jim Crow Era

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13-Year-Old Black Teen Solves 34 Math Problems in 172 Seconds, Earns Full Scholarship

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Hundreds Gather In Houston For George Floyd's Funeral

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Belonging to Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks was born on November 30, 1912 to a family whose head was a vegetable farmer. Being black, Parks faced extreme forms of discrimination as a child and was forced to attend a segregated elementary school. His race also prohibited him from active

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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West

Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding

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Source: Charges for 3 Officers Involved in Floyd’s Death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The three other officers on the scene when a member of the Minneapolis police force pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck are being charged with aiding and abetting a murder, and the murder case against the main officer is being upgraded to second-degree, a newspaper reported

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Baltimore High School Students Lead Protest To Urge City And State Education Policymakers To Support Black Lives Matter – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Daniel Oyefusi- Several hundred demonstrators gathered Wednesday afternoon at Baltimore School for the Arts to demand that the Maryland State Department of Education and Baltimore City Public Schools show “full and public support” for the Black Lives Matter

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Charges for 3 Officers Involved in George Floyd’s Death

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Quvenzhané Wallis

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