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With New Ruling Against Semenya Caster, Track and Field Upholds Restrictive Gender Norms Rooted in Racism
South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya experienced another setback in her years-long struggle to compete on her terms—which is to say, to simply run without having to conform to restrictive, arbitrary and racist perceptions of what a woman’s body ought to be like. On Tuesday, a Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court dismissed her appeal of a…
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Families of Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin Thank Naomi Osaka for Centering Their Loved Ones at U.S. Open
As with many prominent athletes this year, tennis star Naomi Osaka has felt compelled to use her platform to spread social justice messages. After sitting out a semifinal match tournament last month in support of the Milwaukee Bucks’ wildcat strike, Osaka chose to draw attention to the victims of police brutality and vigilante violence by…
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The Boldness of Barbara Lee: Why the Congresswoman Is Still Pushing ‘Against the Odds’ for Systemic Change
Say what you will about Barbara Lee, but one thing you can never accuse the California congresswoman of is backing down from a fight. Despite a congressional stalemate that has left Americans without another aid package during a recession and a global pandemic, Lee is still putting forward legislative proposals that center Americans of color…
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Rochester, N.Y. Police Chief La’Ron Singletary, Commanding Officers Resign Following Accusations of a Cover-Up
Rochester, N.Y. Police Chief La’Ron Singletary has resigned after a week of sustained protests over the March extrajudicial killing of Daniel Prude. Singletary, who is Black, had received calls for his resignation after Prude’s family released body camera footage of his death last week. Prude was detained by police on March 22 after his brother…
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Report on Fatal Police Shootings of Women Finds Black Women Disproportionately Killed by Law Enforcement
Since 2015, nearly 250 women across America have been shot and killed by police. Despite comprising just 13 percent of the population of women in the United States, Black women accounted for 20 percent of the killings, a new analysis finds. The report, published on Sep. 4, comes from the Washington Post’s Fatal Force project,…
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WNBA Co-Owner Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s Anti-BLM Remarks Were Disrupted by Protesters. Loeffler Probably Loved That
If you’re a Georgia Republican running for re-election, slamming Black Lives Matter is potent political currency. This certainly seems true for U.S. Sen. and co-owner of the WNBA team the Atlanta Dream Kelly Loeffler, who was a political nobody outside the state of Georgia until she criticized the league for making “Black Lives Matter” such a…
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Delta Stands in Solidarity With Black Passenger After She Was Harassed on Flight by a Blue Lives Karen
A Black woman harassed by a white passenger on her Delta flight to Washington, D.C., last week is singing the airline’s praises after it upgraded her flight in response. Demetria Poe, 25, was flying from Minneapolis to D.C. on Thursday to attend the Commitment March, held last Friday on the anniversary of the 1963 March…
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Watch: NYPD Escorts Pro-Trump Protesters Into Car Moments Before It Plows Through a BLM March in Times Square [Corrected]
In a scene that’s become all too familiar this year, a car rammed through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in New York’s Times Square on Thursday night, hitting several pedestrians and cyclists. That news would have been grim enough, but as reporters and internet sleuths looked into the attack, which was widely shared…
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Washington, D.C., Police Release Body Cam Footage Showing Officer Shooting a Black 18-Year-Old Within Seconds of Arriving on Scene
After a night of protests, D.C. police have released body camera footage showing a D.C. police officer shooting 18-year-old Deon Kay in the chest. The graphic video—taken from the perspective of the shooter, Alexander Alvarez—does show Kay in possession of a gun, but the quick succession of events laid out by police will likely be…
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Exclusive: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Barbara Lee Unveil Historic Legislation Confronting Public Health Impact of Structural Racism
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) announced on Thursday a new plan that would declare racism a public health issue. Dubbed “the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2020,” the legislation is the first of its kind and would harness the power of the Centers for Disease Control…
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