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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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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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After Stating 'No Good Person of Color' Has Been Killed by Police, California Mayor Resigns
A Southern California city mayor has resigned after apologizing for an email that he wrote that stated he didn’t “believe there’s ever been a good person of color killed by a police officer” according to The
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Father Slams Knee-On-Neck Arrest Of His Son As Video Is Compared To George Floyd
According to the Herald-Tribune, Rayheem Moore is bringing attention to the arrest of his son Patrick
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Ella Jones Elected As First Black Woman, First Black Mayor Of Ferguson
Jones will succeed Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III, who was elected in 2011, unable to run for re-election because he exceeded his term
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20th-Century Statesman
Herbert L. Jackson became one of the most successful Black politicians in the history of Massachusetts, serving some 30 years in public office from the 1940s to the 1970s. He was first elected in 1945 to a seat on the Malden City Council, where he served until 1950, when he won his first of two
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Minneapolis police to be dismantled
The police department in the US city of Minneapolis will be dismantled and rebuilt, city councillors said late Sunday, after the death in custody of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests about racism in law
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Oliver W.Hill
Oliver W. Hill elected to Richmond, Va., City Council.
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9
1948
Wilkinsburg annexation question officially heads to Pittsburgh City Council | New Pittsburgh Courier
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald at a press conference promoting a measure that would allow Wilkinsburg voters to vote on being annexed by Pittsburgh. (Photo by Charlie Wolfson/PublicSource) by Charlie Wolfson, PublicSource A Wilkinsburg group pushing to have the borough annexed by
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Protests Shift to Memorializing Floyd Amid Push for Change | Afro
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and BRIAN MAHONEY, Associated Press
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Police brutality protests move across the city
The #BlackoutNC protest was organized by Greensboro Rising, a collective of local organizers helping to mobilize the community around issues of killing, brutalization, harassment and degradation of Black people by the
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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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Teyana Taylor “Bare Wit Me,” Styles P “Hundred” & More | Daily Visuals 5.22.20
Anyone use this time in quarantine to work out to Teyana Taylor’s workout
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Ben Crump Representing Family Of Jason Walker, Unarmed Black Man Who Off-Duty NC Cop Killed In Questionable Shooting
The family of Jason Walker, an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by off-duty police officer Jeffrey Hash, has retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump following the questionable shooting in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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Minneapolis City Council announces plans to dismantle police department | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The city council is committed to ‘end policing as we know it,’ according to the council
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Ferguson picks Ella Jones as first African American and first woman mayor | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Both Jones and Robinett, 49, said if elected they would help Ferguson to continue implementing changes in city practices since the 2014 unrest, including a consent decree worked out with the federal
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White woman calling cops on black man in Central Park provokes comparison with Emmett Till lynching
A white woman, who was being filmed by a black man because the latter thought the woman’s dog was “tearing through the plantings” in Central Park, New York, called the police on the man, insisting on the phone that her life was being threatened by “an African-American
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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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Officials are first to call for Huizar to resign from council
In a statement, Garcetti said, “I’m sickened by the bribery and corruption described in federal indictments, and I support Council President Nury Martinez’s call for Jose Huizar to step down from Los Angeles City
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Harris, Sherry D. (1957- )
Sherry D. Harris was the first out black lesbian elected to public office in 1991 in the United States. This also gave her the distinction of being the first African American woman on the Seattle City Council in Washington
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Feb
27
1957
Will charges be brought in Rayshard Brooks homicide? [VIDEO]
Maybe the grilling was due diligence, maybe the cops were giving Rayshard Brooks an opportunity to get it together, but in the end, one officer’s decision to shoot the 27-year-old husband and father twice in the back as he fled on foot is another law enforcement
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Council seeks curb on facial recognition
Boston city councilors are pushing to ban facial recognition, a surveillance software that disproportionately misidentifies people of color and may violate civil rights and basic
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BCC moots mandatory cremation for minors
BULAWAYO City Council said it is planning to introduce mandatory cremation for children under the age of 12 as the city says it is running out of burial space, but some councillors want the age limit increased to all persons under 25
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Statements from Atlanta City Council Members on the passing of John Sweet
ATLANTA — Several members of the Atlanta City Council have issued statements following the passing of John
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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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19
1968
Two more Atlanta officers fired after students pulled from car | Dallas Weekly
ATLANTA (AP), June 10, 2020 — Two more Atlanta police officers were fired Wednesday over an incident in which two college students were pulled from a car in traffic during a large protest against police brutality, authorities
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Cameroon: North West - Traditional Leaders Receive Anti COVID-19 Presidential Assistance Kits
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Family Autopsy: Floyd Asphyxiated By Sustained Pressure
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd’s family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for several minutes and ignored his cries of distress, the family’s attorneys said
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Former Missouri officer charged after hitting man with SUV
Former Florissant, MO police officer, Joshua Smith, has been charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, and fourth-degree assault after hitting a man with his police
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