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Kansas City police officer arrested for history of corruption that could take down the entire force

In October 2021, after years and years of very serious complaints and building momentum organized by activists, a federal grand jury began investigating retired Kansas City, Kansas, police officer Roger Golubski. The wide range of accusations against...

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The right did an excellent job of re-branding "Black Lives Matter"

 

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Thread by @timjacobwise: Thread To understand white denial about American history, consider two photos. First, this pic of Hazel Bryan screaming at Elizabeth Eckford during the integration of Little Rock Central Hi...…

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'I just don’t have a lot of sympathy': Journalist responds to man shot 60 times on traffic stop

More than three months ago, Olayemi Olurin, a public defender, appeared on The Hill's web series Rising and discussed the Ohio case of Jayland Walker as one of several examples of police killings. Walker was shot 60 times when Akron police officers...

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Housing activists and residents fight gentrification in West Philadelphia

by Jared Ware This article was originally published at Prism . On Sept. 29, just minutes into freshman convocation, Liz Magill’s first major speech as University of Pennsylvania president ...

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It's one of the most radical and prophetic speeches in American history. And hardly anyone knows about it | CNN

In a little-known speech, Frederick Douglass sketched a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Douglass, subject of a new film, spoke with uncanny precision about debates we're having now on race, immigration and American exceptionalism.

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Federal government to pay $1.2 million to Latinos targeted in discriminatory slaughterhouse raid

Latino meatpacking plant workers who sued the federal government after they were singled out from their white coworkers during a discriminatory workplace raid in Tennessee more than four years ago have won a major financial settlement, Tennessee...

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Black voters over-represented in new DeSantis unit's election crimes arrests

Critics say Gov. Ron DeSantis' new election crimes unit is being used to suppress and intimidate Black voters - just as they had feared.

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Reconstruction in America - Equal Justice Initiative Reports

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so sad

 

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Restaurants keep complaining they can’t find workers. Maybe this is why

Owners of restaurants, coffee shops, and the like are often at the front of the line to complain about how Nobody Wants To Work These Days. No doubt coincidentally, they often provide some of the worst examples of why nobody wants to work for them. And...

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@lesliemalex: Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread... This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were...

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Los Angeles County struggling to shrink Black infant death rate

A pledge to sharply reduce infant mortality by 2023 faces daunting obstacles. By Dan Ross , for Capital & Main ...

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Fortune 500 companies launch ad urging Congress to act on relief for DACA recipients by year's end

A coalition of numerous Fortune 500 companies are again adding their voices to the urgent call demanding Congress act on permanent protections for young undocumented immigrants by the end of this year. The popular and successful Deferred Action for...

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'There is no Purge Law in Chicago': Attorney explains why we have to stop believing GOP lies

It has to be said, and public defender Olayemi Olurin minced no words in spreading the gospel. “There is no ‘Purge Law’ in Chicago,” she tweeted last month. “What there is, is a concerted effort to prevent landmark bail reform that’ll prevent countless...

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Illinois' plan to end cash bail is not a 'purge law.' It will, however, stop the criminalization of poverty

There is no such thing as a “purge law.” Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act is being wrongly compared to "The Purge."

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Only on AP: New Fed. Prisons head open about flaws

Colette Peters, the new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told the AP her vision for reforming the crisis-plagued agency pledging to reform its archaic hiring practices and hold accountable any employees who sexually assault inmates.

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Tweets from May...

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@ijbailey: A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacati...…

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Senate Bill 6 may be contributing to a record number of deaths at Harris County Jail

This year, Harris County Jail has seen the highest number of in-custody deaths and the highest inmate population in more than a decade.

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9-year-old girl now 'afraid to go outside' after neighbor called 911 on her for spraying insects

A New Jersey mother and her 13-year-old daughter read powerful words before a local city council to detail just how traumatic of an experience they lived through. Monique Joseph told the Borough of Caldwell City Council that her 9-year-old daughter...

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@AfricanArchives: “fuck it, i’ll do it!” —black women Black women are routinely erased from public memory and historical narratives of resistance. Black women powered the civil rights movement, but rarely became its...…

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