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Army Veteran Charged With Attempted Murder for Shooting 15-Year-Old Black Girl at Trump Rally
The many army veterans and law enforcement officers who participated in the insurrectionist attack at the U.S. Capitol confirmed that there are people in the forces who also identify as violent Trump supporters, as does the recent case of an Army veteran being accused of shooting at a Black teen girl during a Trump rally.…
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CDC Says New COVID-19 Strain Could Drive Increased Infections by March, While Government is Accused of Flubbing Vaccine Distribution Again
Officials say the new coronavirus strain that was first detected in the U.K. could drive an increased spread of the virus across the U.S. by March, which would mark a year since the pandemic was officially declared. On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flagged that the new COVID-19 variant is more…
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Trump Administration Executes 13th Person, Dustin Higgs, Days Away from Inauguration
The Justice Department executed 48-year-old Dustin Higgs at the Terre Haute federal penitentiary in Indiana on Friday night, marking the 13th execution the Trump Administration has pushed through while in office. Higgs was convicted and put on death row in 2000 for kidnapping and ordering the killing of three women, but maintained his innocence to…
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Meet Two Unapologetic Chicago Activists Calling for Defunding Police to Save Black Lives
Chicago is a key site in the movement against the epidemic of police violence that continues to leave the lives of Black people in its wake. From the killings of Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police Department officers to the more recent video evidence of the department’s outrageous mistreatment of Black women like…
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Some Capitol Insurgents Were on a Terrorist Watch List, and Trump’s Extremists Are Planning to Keep Up the Violence in the Lead Up to Inauguration Day
The saga of the attack on the Capitol is far from finished—as is the long-present white supremacist beast that Trump let fully loose in this country. According to a report from the Washington Post, dozens of the violent racist insurgents who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 were already known by the FBI because…
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New York Attorney General Sues NYPD for Brutality Against Peaceful Protestors Last Summer
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading the charge against police impunity related to the many incidents of brutality officers from the NYPD levied against people peacefully demonstrating against racial injustice in the city last summer. On Thursday, the attorney general announced that her office has filed a lawsuit against the police department, its…
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Illinois' Rep. Emanuel 'Chris' Welch Is the State's First Black Speaker of the House, but Past Allegations Cast a Shadow
The state of Illinois can boast of being the home of many well-known Black politicians who made history—Harold Washington (Chicago’s first Black mayor) current mayor Lori Lightfoot (the city’s first who is a Black woman and openly gay), and former President Barack Obama. On Wednesday, state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch ushered in another groundbreaking moment…
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Derek Chauvin to Stand Trial Separately From Other Cops Charged in George Floyd’s Death
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin will be tried separately for his role in the death of 46-year-old George Floyd in May of last year. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill made the ruling on Monday, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, reports NPR. Chauvin was notoriously captured on video kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over eight…
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It’s 2021 and America Just Recorded Its Highest Single-Day Number of COVID Deaths
While the deadly threat of Trump-supporting white supremacists continues to hover over the country, it would be foolhardy to forget that so does the fatal risk of COVID-19. The U.S. recorded over 4,300 deaths from the coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest single-day number of deaths since the start of the pandemic according to CNN, which…
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Democratic Lawmakers Ask HHS to Allocate Portion of COVID-19 Relief Funds to Grassroots Groups in Communities of Color
In the midst of a vaccine rollout plagued by slowdowns as well as lingering suspicions from Black Americans and others about trusting the government’s response, Democrats are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to direct funds from the recently passed $900 billion COVID relief bill to grassroots organizations in communities of…
