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Hostile Judge Removed from the Atatiana Jefferson’s Police Shooting case
The defense attorneys requested the judge recuse from the case because of the bias he showed against them.
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Black Woman Who Served 26 Years for Murder Battles to Clear Her Name
Laquanda “Faye” Jacobs was arrested in 1992 and released in 2016 after accepting a deal from prosecutors
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Lizzo Shares ‘Special’ Moment With Her Mother Listening To Her New Song
The new track is the latest release since “Rumors” featuring Cardi B.
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Ex-Cop Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson Will Stay Free Until May
Texas judge grants another delay in Aaron Dean’s murder trial
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Trial of Former Cop who Killed Atatiana Jefferson Moved (Again) to January
Aaron Dean’s day in court has already been rescheduled multiple times
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Sister of Atatiana Jefferson Files Lawsuit Against Fort Worth Mayor, Ex-Police Chief and Ex-Officer Involved in Death
Last November, The Root reported that a lawsuit was filed against the city of Fort Worth, Texas, and ex-police officer Aaron Dean, who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson on Oct. 12, 2019, while she was watching her 8-year-old nephew at her mother’s house and after a neighbor called a non-emergency police line to report an open…
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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…
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What's The "Blackest" Last Name? Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Or Jenkins?
What’s The “Blackest” Last Name? It’s a question that has plagued us for forever. (And by “us” I mean “me” and by “forever” I mean “since like Wednesday, when I first thought about writing this.”) Out of all of America’s most popular surnames, which is the “Blackest?” And it’s a question that leads to other…