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Spurred by the 2019 Death of Layleen Polanco, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Moves to End Solitary Confinement in City Jails
A year after trans Afro-Latina Layleen Xtravaganza Polanco died while imprisoned in solitary confinement at Rikers Island, New York City Bill de Blasio has vowed to end the practice “once and for all.” The mayor made the announcement during his Monday briefing, invoking Polanco’s name as well as that of Kalief Browder, the young Black…
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Karen and Ken Point Guns at Protesters Calling for St. Louis Mayor’s Resignation
Hundreds of protesters gathered in St. Louis to march towards Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home demanding her resignation after she read the names and street addresses of protesters who are calling on the city to defund the police department during a Facebook Live press briefing last Friday. It was a peaceful march but that didn’t stop…
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Mississippi Governor Grudgingly Says He'll Sign a Bill to Change the State's Confederate Flag
Lawmakers in Mississippi responded to increased pressure over the state’s distasteful flag—which boasts the battle emblem of the treasonous, slavery loving Confederacy—by passing a measure this weekend that makes it possible for the flag to be changed legislatively. On Saturday, two-thirds of the Mississippi House voted for a resolution to allow lawmakers to consider a…
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1 Person Killed, Another Injured After Shooter Fires on Breonna Taylor Protest in Louisville
Protestors who gathered in Jackson Square Park in Louisville, Kentucky to continue their calls for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor were set upon by gunfire on by an unknown assailant on Saturday night. A man who was shot died on the scene, while another person was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, reports AP.…
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Trump Pens Petty Letter to Chicago Officials, Ironically Calls Out Their Lack of Leadership
We’ve already established that white people are really concerned about Chicago, and no one pretends to be more concerned than the white-orange President of the U.S. Trump sent an audacious letter to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot on Friday, calling them out for putting their “own political interests ahead of…
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Colorado Police Officers Involved in Elijah McClain's Death Taken Off Streets
Police officers Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt, and Randy Roedema of the Aurora Police Department in Colorado have been put to work in a “non-enforcement capacity” since interest has renewed in the case surrounding the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain last year. A police department spokesperson says the decision was “done in an effort to protect…
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The Last Bomber Convicted in Church Killing of 4 Black Girls in Birmingham, Alabama Has Died
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and one of three men convicted of murdering four Black girls in Alabama by bombing a church in 1963, has died in prison at 84 years old. Blanton was serving a life sentence and died of natural causes on Friday, according to a…
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New Jersey Corrections Officer Seen Mocking George Floyd's Death on Track to be Fired
Earlier this month, a video went viral depicting a group of white counter-protesters during a rally against police brutality in New Jersey. During the video, two of the counter-protesters are seen on the ground, mocking the way in which George Floyd died. One the men seen in the video was identified as a New Jersey…
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As U.S. Faces Surge in Coronavirus Cases, Study Shows Black Americans Most Likely to Know Someone Who's Died from the Virus
Across the world, coronavirus cases are popping up again. But in few other countries has the virus had as disastrous a toll as it has in America, which has failed to meet the challenge of managing the worst public health crisis in the century. It’s worth asking if that mismanagement is due, in part, to…