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Joe Biden and Democratic Rivals Exchange Attacks Over His Remarks on Segregationists.
As Joe Biden’s presidential campaign takes an unexpected turn he is forced to defend his record on civil rights. After acknowledging the work he had done with conservative representatives in the past such as James O. Eastland, people believe that he is out of touch with political change in America.
Read MoreParkland Teen Kyle Kashuv, Former Turning Point USA Member, Apologizes For Racist Slurs
Harvard rescinds the admission decision of Kyle Kashuv, a student who was affected by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, due to racist remark he made just months before the incident. Some say that the Ivy-League school has gone too far but the majority agree with the university’s decision. An apology is not enough to repair the damage of his actions and the years of history he chose to ignore.
Read MoreExonerated ‘Central Park Five’ men receive joyful praise and standing ovation at BET Awards
The five black and Latino teenagers falsely convicted of killing a Central Park jogger in 1989 received high praise when they hit the stage on Sunday at the BET Awards. Now called the ‘Exonerated Five’ – Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise – have become the face of injustice at the hands of the American legal system.
Read MoreAmericans Won’t Be Free Until We Face Our Racist History
“True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” a new HBO documentary coming out June 26, digs into Stevenson’s work with the Montgomery, Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, fighting racism in the criminal justice system for over 30 years, largely by defending poor, black people on death row.
Read MoreHow 2020 (Democratic) Contenders Are Approaching Police Brutality And Criminal Justice Reform
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been criticized by the black community in his city for his handling of a recent fatal shooting by police of a black man. This article relates how Mayor Buttigieg and other Democratic presidential candidates with strong backgrounds in managing law enforcement have handled police.
Read MoreIt’s Juneteenth, and a White Nationalist Is President
With the South rising again on the watch of President Donald Trump, who plans to turn the Fourth of July this year from a celebration of America to a celebration of himself, it’s time for Americans who champion equality to begin celebrating Juneteenth.June 19, 1865 — “Juneteenth” being a combination of June and nineteenth — should remind all Americans of the long and complex fight required to end slavery here.
Read MoreThis police robot could make traffic stops safer
A California man has built a robot that he hopes will take some of the danger out of traffic stops — those anxiety-provoking and potentially deadly encounters between police officers and motorists that play out on American roads more than 50,000 times a day. Such encounters lead to many injuries and deaths each year — particularly among black motorists, who are more likely than their white counterparts to experience violence from police.
Read MoreDonald Trump Insists People Are On ‘Both Sides’ Of Exonerated Central Park 5 Case
President Trump continues to refuse to apologize for his 1989 ad calling to execute five teenagers who were falsely accused of rape in the notorious Central Park Five case. All five were convicted based on coerced confessions and little evidence. They were exonerated in 2002 thanks to DNA evidence. A new Netflix series “When They See Us” by Ava DuVerney (director of “13th”) re-examines their story.
Read MoreCNN Highlights Living While Black in Milwaukee
On June 9, 2019 CNN’s “United Shades of America” series with Kamau Bell aired a one-hour segment of interviews with black Milwaukeeans entitled “Living While Black.” Reggie Jackson, Head Griot of ABHM, was featured.
Read MoreRacial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction
In the age of Trump white nationalism, hate crimes and acts of domestic terrorism have escalated. Recent acts of violence mirror the years following Reconstruction that resulted in American Descendants of Slavery losing all rights and privileges gained after the Civil War and the imposition of Jim Crow Laws.
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