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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…
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Auntie Unfiltered: How to Be an Ally
Thirty days after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, it seems white people are still slowly coming to the realization that AmeriKKKa is racist as fuck. It’s not just the overt racism that is out there, but all the little microaggressions and insidious ways it has…
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Alabama Football Drops Video Speaking Out Against Racism: 'All Lives Can’t Matter Until Black Lives Matter'
On Thursday, the Alabama Crimson Tide became the latest sports team to release a video speaking out against systemic racism. Following in the footsteps of videos released by the Baltimore Ravens and some of the biggest names in the NFL, the Crimson Tide make it explicitly clear that “all lives can’t matter until Black lives…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Couchbed Solution
This week’s Clapback Mailbag is about strawmen. When people try to disprove a reasonable argument by distorting the premise of the debate, there’s always a leap in logic that you might not notice unless you examine it closely. For instance, people who refute “black lives matter” with “but what about black-on-black crime” always forget to…
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Special Prosecutor Appointed in Elijah McClain Case
Outrage has grown in the last week over the way the case of Elijah McClain has been handled. McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died last year during a confrontation with police in Aurora, Colo. After a petition for a new investigation into the case garnered 3 million signatures, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D)…
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6 Months After Kneeling on a Black Woman’s Neck and Tasing Her Belly, Miami-Area Officer Faces Battery Charges
A former Miami Gardens police officer has been charged with four counts of official misconduct and two counts of battery stemming from a January incident where he knelt on a Black woman’s neck and stunned her twice with a Taser during an unlawful arrest. As NBC News reports, Jordy Yanes Martel turned himself in on…