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Chicago Is About to Offer the Nation’s First Reparations Program for Victims of Police Violence
By Zach Stafford On November 2, 1983, Darrell Cannon found himself in the Chicago Police Department’s Area 2 headquarters with a shotgun barrel stuck in his mouth as a white officer yelled, “Blow that nigger’s head off!” The officer pulled … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Chicago Police Department, justice, law, police abuse, race, reparations, torture
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State Legislatures Reveal a Lot About Racism in America
By Charles D. Ellison Look a little closer and you’ll find that state legislatures are some of the most unapologetic cesspools of racism in America. Which is one reason some of us cringe at that familiar concept called “states’ rights.” … Continue reading
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Tagged government, issues, law, life, race, racism, state legislatures, United States
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A Judge Just Let A Cop Walk After A Deadly Shooting. Legal Experts Say The Reasoning Is ‘Incredible.’
By Nicole Flatow Late Monday, a Cook County judge acquitted Chicago police officer Dante Servin of several homicide-related charges for the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman standing outside with some friends near his home. It was the first … Continue reading
NYC Has 118,000 Missing Black Men
By Christopher Robbins A new report shows that more than one of every six black men in the United States who should be between the ages of 25 and 54 have “disappeared” from free society, mostly due to incarceration or … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, black men, Ferguson, incarceration, missing persons, Missouri, New York City, race
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Michigan man denies racism after hanging nooses and Confederate flags outside properties
By David McCormack A businessman in suburban Detroit is under fire from unhappy neighbours after hanging a Confederate flag and nooses at his two properties in the area. Robert Tomanovich, who owns Robert’s Discount Tree Service in Livonia, Michigan, first … Continue reading
A Teen Dies After Police Encounter on NYC Subway
By Aaron Miguel Cantu One evening almost two years ago, a young couple walked hand in hand to a subway station in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The girl, Hesha Sanchez, 17, wasn’t carrying her fare card, but she wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Deion Fludd, New York Police Department, NYPD, race, United States
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Freddie Gray’s spinal injury suggests ‘forceful trauma,’ doctors say
By Scott Dance Spinal injuries such as those that led to Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody require “significant force” akin to the impact from a car accident and can fatally impair the body’s ability to regulate blood flow … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Baltimore Police, Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray murder, Maryland, police violence, race
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Toni Morrison: ‘I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman’
By Oliver Laughland The Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison has delivered a frank assessment of race relations in America, declaring that until racial disparities in the criminal justice system are resolved, the conversation about racism will never be over. Morrison, … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, police, race, racism, Toni Morrison
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Freddie Gray death: Mayor vows to find answers
The autopsy hasn’t yielded many answers in Freddie Gray’s death — in fact, it’s prompted more questions — but Baltimore’s mayor pledged Tuesday to find out how the 25-year-old died from a spinal cord injury after being arrested a … Continue reading
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