know your rights
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Colin Kaepernick Jumpstarts Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Fund With $100,000 Donation
Since his exile from the NFL, should-be quarterback Colin Kaepernick has poured himself into combating racial inequality in Trump’s America. And with black communities receiving the brunt of the wrath of the coronavirus, Kap has announced his plans to provide relief. “Black and brown communities are being disproportionately devastated by COVID-19 because of hundreds of…
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Watch: Oregon Police Arrest Black Woman for Knowing Her Rights
One of my favorite things on the internet is the genre of YouTube videos posted by white people illustrating to police officers their knowledge of their constitutional rights. They carry guns and don’t get shot in the back. They don’t even roll their windows down during traffic stops because it’s their right! This is white…
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North Carolina Man Sues Hardees for Civil Rights Violations for Shorting Him on Hash Rounds
If you look at the menu for Hardees’ breakfast platter—as you might be wont to do if you were craving a quick, affordable morning meal—you’ll notice that along with two slices of bacon, two scrambled eggs, and two biscuits sopped in sausage gravy, you’ll also get roughly a half dozen hash rounds. Beloved reader, that…
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NYPD Detectives Racially Profiled Over 360 Black and Latino Men While Searching for Howard Beach Killer
Just two weeks after Chanel Lewis, 22, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of jogger Karina Vetrano, shocking new details have emerged about the initial manhunt that left black and Latino men stripped of dignity, if not also their rights. According to the New York Daily News, in the months…
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You Got the Wrong Black Girl on the Right Day, Baby: Montana Woman Kicks Police Out of Her House; Black Twitter Rejoices
Knowledge is power, and clearly, Angela Whitehead of Billings, Montana, has plenty of both. Ms. Whitehead was minding her business in her own home, doing whatever it is she felt like, because it’s the privacy of her own home and she’s entitled to peace of mind and security. But when cops barged into her home…