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Megan Thee Stallion Donates $50,000 in Solidarity With the Asian-American Community
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion is sending her support to the Asian-American community. In partnership with Fashion Nova along with journalist and activist May Lee, Billboard reports that the “Hot Girl” is donating $50K to Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta, the nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians…
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St. Louis Jury Returns Not Guilty and Mistrial Verdicts for Police Officers Accused of Beating Black Cop Working Undercover at a Protest
As we watch with bated breath, and not a little bit of apprehension, for the outcome of the high-profile trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in a case of brutality against a Black man, a St. Louis jury’s failure to return a guilty verdict for any of the officers charged with beating a fellow…
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9 Minutes and 29 Seconds: Prosecutor’s Opening Statement in Chauvin Trial Reveals Real Time Ex-Cop’s Knee Was on George Floyd’s Neck
In opening statements in the trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, prosecutors took pains to explain the full horror of the officer’s subjugation of the Black man last summer by placing his knee on his neck. “The most important numbers you will hear in this trial are nine…
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The Biden Administration Extends Federal Moratorium on Evictions to June
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage and unemployment rates continue to fluctuate, the Biden administration has announced it will extend the federal ban on evictions until June. According to the Associated Press, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved to extend the protections on Monday, as the moratorium was set to expire on…
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Low-Level Offenses, Including Drug Possession and Prostitution, to No Longer Be Prosecuted in Baltimore
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seen law enforcement and criminal justice agencies across the country make adjustments in what crimes they do and don’t prosecute in an effort to mitigate the spread of the virus. In Baltimore, those adjustments will remain permanent as the city prosecutor announced her office will no longer prosecute a multitude…
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Court Denies Request by Ex-Officer in Breonna Taylor Case to Move Trial Outside of Louisville
Let’s start by remembering that no one has been criminally charged for the horrific killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a promising and ambitious young woman who police gunned down in her home in Louisville, Ky., in the middle of the night last spring. Of the three officers who entered Taylor’s apartment on that fatefully tragic…