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Black Woman Owned Fashion Line, Jolie Noire, Lands at Target
Kim and Keyondra Lockett’s fashion line along with several other Black designers are part of Target’s Black History Month campaign, “Black Beyond Measure.”
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Louisiana Governor Denies Delaying Probe Into Ronald Greene’s Death
49 year-old Ronald Greene was tased, punched, and dragged by Louisiana state troopers during a traffic stop turned deadly arrest in 2019.
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Today In Black History: The Fight for School Desegregation in a New Jersey City
Hundreds of people occupied city hall chambers in Englewood, N.J., in protest of the school board’s refusal to transfer nine Black students to a new school.
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Jury Questioning Delayed In Trial of Former Louisville Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Death
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison is charged with three counts of felony wanton endangerment for the bullets that entered a neighbor’s apartment.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tests Positive For COVID-19 in Latest Omicron Surge Through Congress
“She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home,” the office for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a statement.
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Are Going to Prison For a Long Time
Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael along with William “Roddie” Bryan are sentenced
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Manhattan DA Says Office Will Only Prosecute Serious Crimes
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s new district attorney, recalled his own experience with the criminal justice system as a Black youth growing up in Harlem.
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Lawrence Brooks, Oldest WWII Veteran Dies At 112
Brooks returned home to a Jim Crow era South in , denied his GI Bill benefits.
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Louisiana Governor Pardons Plessy, 125 Years After ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling in Plessy v Ferguson
30-year-old mixed race shoemaker, Homer Plessy, was arrested for sitting on a whites only train car in 1897. The case made way for decades of segregation laws.
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US Authorities Arrest Suspect In Assassination of Haitian President Last Summer
A mercenary group of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans carried out the attack at Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s private residence last July.
