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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – ‘We’re not stopping’: Community organizers are focusing on local policy changes for 2021

January 4, 2021
Terry Thompson and protesters take a kneww

Entering into the new year of 2021 Wisconsin’s community organizers have vowed to keep pushing for meaningful, local change.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – In 2020, Protests Spread Across The Globe With A Similar Message: Black Lives Matter

December 30, 2020
EFF protest

The Black Lives Matter movement became an international phenomenon in 2020. As protesters took to the streets in cities across the U.S. in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, Minn., so did demonstrators in other countries — all with a similar message: Black lives matter.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Judges Continue To Dismiss Cases Against Black Lives Matter Demonstrators

December 10, 2020
George Floyd protest in Cincinnati

Many of the first cases to come to resolution following the spring demonstrations sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others are being thrown out as “unconstitutionally vague.”

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – In a year of BLM protests, Dutch wrestle (again) with the tradition of Black Pete

December 3, 2020
Black Pete

The ambivalence surrounding Black Pete’s status in the Netherlands is not an isolated issue. Rather, it mirrors an international unease about the function and significance of blackface images and performances globally.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – How a bloody night of bullets and brutality quashed a young protest movement

November 19, 2020

Protesters, inspired by BLM, in their struggle against police brutality (#EndSARS) were massacred at the eight-lane Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Got into politics after the Ferguson protests. She just became the first Black woman to represent MO in Congress

November 4, 2020
Cori Bush

Cori Bush, a progressive community leader and veteran Black Lives Matter activist, won a House seat in Missouri, becoming the state’s first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – ‘The police are making us look bad’: Protesters march through Wauwatosa

November 1, 2020

Protesters marched again through the streets of Wauwatosa calling for justice for 17-year-old Alvin Cole and demanding change in the Wauwatosa Police Department and their community.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – What We Know About the Death of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia

October 29, 2020

On Monday afternoon, two Philadelphia police officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who was armed with a knife. In the nights that followed, protesters clashed with officers in the streets, and city officials imposed a curfew to try to curb the unrest.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Nigeria’s #EndSARS protesters draw inspiration from BLM movement

October 26, 2020

In Lagos, Nigeria protesters gain momentum in their movement against the rogue police group, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) owing much to Black Lives Matter.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Police Retaliate Against Cole Family with Violent Attack Sending Mother to Hospital

October 10, 2020

On night 2 of peaceful protests against the decision not to prosecute the police officer who killed teenager Alvin Cole, police arrested and brutalized Cole’s mother and two sisters — and pulled others from their cars.

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