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An Atlanta oversight board has ordered the reinstatement of Garrett Rolfe, the fired police officer charged with murder in the death of Rayshard Brooks, based on...
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Lakeisha Nix called it "blood money."
"Blood money is all that keeps popping up in my head, filing a lawsuit for money that my brother’s blood is on. It hurts...
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Daniel Prude one of the many victims of racial policing in New York.
If you took the time to remove the hood, you might see me.
You placed it over my...
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Derek Chauvin's attorney Eric Nelson filed a motion on Tuesday asking for a new trial on multiple grounds after one of the jurors who convicted Chauvin in the murder of...
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According to the Belleville News-Democrat, a former Georgia sheriff's deputy arrested on multiple gun charges bragged in private texts that he would...
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The Rev. Calvin Skinner has given hundreds of sermons, but he says this past Sunday's felt more urgent than ever after the police killing of Anthony Thompson Jr. in Tennessee...
The family of Andrew Brown Jr. gathered at a church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on Monday to remember his life and call for transparency and justice in his death after the 42-year-old was...
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A new report found that Americans overwhelmingly believe a portion of police budgets should be reallocated toward other public safety measures, with...
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The protest movement sparked by George Floyd’s killing last year has forced a nationwide reckoning with a wide range of deep-rooted racial inequities — in our economy, in...
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After eleven months of protest demanding systemic police reform in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, advocates in New York are now pushing for a state law that would...
I spoke to Baruch College/City University of New York professor Johanna Fernandez...
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Faith and moral leader Bishop William J. Barber II will speak Monday at the funeral for Andrew Brown Jr., who was killed April 21 by a North...
In response to the government-sponsored genocide happening in Tigray, Ethiopia — a war that has utilized starvation and rape as war tactics and left 4.5 million people in desperate...
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In the following piece, award-winning journalist Robert C. Koehler says convicted murderer Derek Chauvin is no different from other killer-cops--except for the fact that his...
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New York, NY (April 29, 2021) – Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network (NAN) condemn the unexplained police killing of Lindani Myeni in Honolulu on April...
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