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U.S. Women's National Soccer Team Kneel and Support Black Lives Matter in Game Against the Netherlands
The U.S. women’s national soccer team (USWNT) showed their support for racial justice by donning Black Lives Matter jackets and kneeling on the field ahead of their 2-0 winning game against the Netherlands on Friday. “Today, we wear Black Lives Matter to affirm human decency,” the team said in a statement released on Friday. “We…
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Ben Carson Says Cocktail Drug Treatment for COVID-19 'Saved His Life'
Coronavirus has been making its way through the mess of people in Donald Trump’s orbit, infecting a host of White House staffers, Melania Trump, the president himself, and even one his sons, Donald Trump Jr. Department of Housing Secretary Ben Carson is another member of the president’s posse who was recently diagnosed with COVID-19. Now…
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Black Lives Matter Protests Erupt in Brazil After Black Man Beaten to Death by Security Officers
Demonstrators took the streets across Brazil this weekend to protest the killing of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a Black man and father of four, by security officers. According to a report from the Washington Post, videos taken by witnesses to the incident show 40-year-old Freitas being held down and beaten bloody by officers working at…
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Black Panther 2 To Begin Filming in Atlanta Next Summer
The sequel to the cultural phenomenon that was Marvel Studio’s Black Panther is set to start filming next year. Production of the highly anticipated follow-up to the 2018 flick, that featured Chadwick Boseman as the eponymous superhero tussling with Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger to preserve the fictional Wakanda, was understandably halted after Boseman’s unexpected death…
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NAACP LDF Sues Trump on Behalf of Black Detroit Residents, Allege Voting Rights Act Violation for Attempts to Block Michigan's Vote Certification
After a week of foolery in the process of certifying Michigan’s election results, which show the state going for decisively for President-elect Joe Biden over incumbent President Trump, Black Detroiters are fighting back against what they see as an attempt to disenfranchise them. On Friday, the NAACP Legal Defence Fund (LDF) filed a lawsuit on…
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Police Who Pepper Sprayed Rally to the Polls in Alamance County, N.C. to File Felony Assault Charges Against Reverend Organizer
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. After officers from the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office in Graham, North Carolina deployed pepper spray on men, women, and children marching to the polls during early voting last month, the sheriff’s office now says it will be charging the organizer of the march with felony assault and…
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Rahm Emanuel Reportedly Being Considered for Biden's Cabinet, a Choice That Would Be a Slap in the Face to Black Voters
President-elect Joe Biden’s credentials in terms of supporting the Black Lives Matter movement haven’t been unimpeachable. His campaign for president was marked by him explaining away and apologizing for policies widely seen as contributing to racism and racist policing, among them his one-time opposition to desegregating schools and his support of the later-maligned 1994 crime…
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American Medical Association's New Policy Acknowledges What We All Should Know by Now: Racism Is a Public Health Threat
The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest association of physicians in the United States, this week revealed it has developed a new policy identifying racism as a threat to public health in America. After denouncing systemic racism this summer, and identifying violent police interactions as threatening to the health of those in Black and Brown…
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Republicans in Wayne County Refuse to Certify Votes From Detroit, Reverse Decision After Being Called Out for Racism and Securing Audit
Racist Republicans are trying their hardest to invalidate the results of the presidential election—specifically by targeting the ballots of Black voters. The latest indication of this was a fracas on Tuesday night at a meeting of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in Michigan, held to certify the votes of the county in which Detroit…
