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Justice Department Continues Investigations Into Civil Rights Era Killings After Closing Emmett Till Case
Among the list of open cases are police shootings of Black victims, an arson that killed a 9-year-old girl in Philadelphia and the assassination of Edwin Pratt.
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Letitia James Drops Out of Race for New York Governor, Seeks Reelection as Attorney General
Current New York Attorney General Letitia James had just announced her run for governor in late October.
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Introduces Resolution To Punish Rep. Lauren Boebert For Being Islamophobic
The resolution looks to strip Rep. Boebert of her committee assignments after she alluded to Omar being a terrorist in a completely made up story.
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Emmett Till Investigation Closes With No Charges For Accuser
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division closed the investigation after it was unable to prove that Carolyn Bryant Donham lied.
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Black Georgia Election Workers Suing Far-Right Conspiracy Website For Dragging Them Into Trump’s Election Fraud Circus
Mother and daughter, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, were targets in election fraud conspiracy theories pushed by far-right site, The Gateway Pundit.
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Child Actor Jonshel Alexander Fatally Shot in New Orleans at 22
Jonshel Alexander starred as Joy Strong in the Oscar-nominated movie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” when she was 12 years old.
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Black Washington Superintendent Interrupted by ‘Zoom-Bombers’ With Racist Soundtrack
Superintendent Dr. Shaun Carey was presenting at a Enumclaw, Washington school board meeting when two Zoom-Bombers began to play recordings of the N-word.
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Symone Sanders, Vice President Kamala Harris’ Top Aide, To Depart White House
Sanders’ expected departure is the second high profile exit from the VP’s office to make headlines in recent weeks.
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Botswana Appeals Court Upholds Landmark Decision To Decriminalize Homosexuality
Before the decision, homosexuality was punishable by up to seven years in jail.
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Strict Georgia Voting Law Drives Absentee Request Rejections
Over half of the absentee ballot applications were tossed out thanks to just one of the requirements of Senate Bill 202, passed in March.
