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Michael Beals has been charged with criminal mischief for defacing the bronze-finished bust of Floyd on Oct. 3 in Union Square Park.
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By Rachel Pilgrim, TheRoot.com The agency acknowledged that the tactics lead to unnecessary deaths but doesn’t outright ban them in the new directive. In the past year, the calls to end…
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In his Contemporary Issues class that day at a Tennessee school, social studies teacher Matthew Hawn led a discussion of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha WI. Over the next several months, Hawn, 43, used the news cycle to show students, almost all of whom are white, how systemic racism is an indisputable element of American life. When he got fired, Hawn became one of the first casualties from the nation’s debate this year over “critical race theory” and whether or how teachers should acknowledge racism in class.
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Fresh off his MVP performance in the 2021 NBA Finals, Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo is investing in a local business — the city’s professional baseball team, the Milwaukee Brewers. Antetokounmpo also is firmly putting his roots down in the city he plays in. Last December, the then two-time reigning NBA MVP signed a five-year supermax contract extension with the Bucks, worth $228 million, as reported by the New York Times.
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A 14-year-old from Harvey, Louisiana, breezed to the championship at the 2121 Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming the first African American winner and only the second Black champion in the bee’s 96-year history.
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The Milwaukee Public Museum in partnership with America’s Black Holocaust Museum present “Mandela: The Official Exhibition.” April 23rd through August 1st, 2021
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Several of the apparel and signs shown at the January 6th Insurrections brought painful memories to Black Aides inside the capitol.
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An HBO documentary shows several art pieces created by African Americans that never received proper praise.
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Black families, especially mothers, are struggling economically with the CoVid-19 pandemic.
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Far-Right protestors vandalized an historically Black church in Washington D.C. due to the church supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
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