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Black Lives Matter Demonstrators Briefly Halt 2017 Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minn.
Black Lives Matter demonstrators briefly halted the 2017 Twin Cities Pride Festival this past weekend in downtown Minneapolis, upset over the inclusion of police officers in the parade in the wake of the acquittal of a Minnesota police officer in the shooting death of Philando Castile. Thousands of people were gathered along the parade route…
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Senate Judiciary Committee Investigating Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch
The Senate Judiciary Committee is investigating alleged political interference by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as part of its examination into the circumstances surrounding the removal of James Comey as FBI director. In a news release on his Senate…
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Calif. Bans Travel to 4 More States That Discriminate Against LGBT Americans
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Thursday that his state would prohibit state-funded and state-sponsored travel to Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota and Texas because of discriminatory legislation enacted in those states that targets LGBT Americans. Becerra said, according to the California Department of Justice: Our country has made great strides in dismantling prejudicial laws that…
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‘What Happened to Black Lives Matter?’ Movement for Black Lives Responds
An article was published Wednesday that questioned the organization, the leadership, the purpose, the plans and the goals of Black Lives Matter. It was an article that organizers in the Movement for Black Lives say included multiple inaccuracies, and as the group seeks corrections or a retraction, it responded with an op-ed of its own…
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FBI Investigating Stabbing of Police Officer at Flint, Mich., Airport as Possible Act of Terrorism
A police officer was stabbed Wednesday at the Flint, Mich., international airport, and the FBI says it is investigating the incident as a possible act of terrorism because of statements the suspect reportedly made before attacking the officer. The assailant in the Wednesday-morning attack that prompted an evacuation and shutdown of Bishop International Airport has…
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Judges Rule Making a Murderer Confession Was Improperly Obtained
If you watched the Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, you probably agree that the confession a teenage Brendan Dassey gave was coerced by police officers who took advantage of a mentally challenged boy who did not have a parent or lawyer present to help him. On Thursday a three-judge federal appeals panel ruled that the…
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Is the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department Secretly Airing Its Grievances Through an Underground Facebook Page?
Tanya Faison, a self-described “abolitionist” with Black Lives Matter Sacramento in California’s state capital, has been the repeated target of attacks on a Facebook page purported to be the “unofficial voice to the hardworking men and women of the Sacramento Police Department.” “I’ve had to clean out the list of followers and block people because…
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Barack Obama: Senate Health Care Bill Is a Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Richest People in America
Former President Barack Obama took to his official Facebook page Thursday to criticize the Senate health care bill released Thursday, calling it “a massive transfer of wealth” to “the richest people in America,” and asking the Senate to “take a step back and measure what’s really at stake.” “Our politics are divided,” Obama wrote. “They…
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Fla. Education Official Says He Believes the Gender Wage Gap Is ‘Genetic’
A member of the Florida State University system board of governors said during a meeting Tuesday that the gender wage gap is caused by genetics, and not the systemic social and economic causes that continue to favor men over women in the workplace. The Daily Dot reports that board members were discussing pay discrepancy outside…
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Congressional Black Caucus: Trump and His Administration Don’t Care About Black People
Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, Democrat from New Orleans and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote a three-page letter Wednesday to Donald Trump declining his invitation to the CBC to meet with him, and outlining the many reasons the group as a whole is saying no. In a letter dated June 21 (pdf), Richmond opened…
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