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Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police shot and killed a teenage girl who swung at two other people with a knife Tuesday, according to bodycam footage from the officer who fired the shots just minutes before the verdict in George Floyd’s killing was read...
·apnews.com·
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police
Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police
MONROE, La. (AP) — The most violent videos languished for years, lost or ignored in a digital vault. Louisiana State Police troopers and top brass alike would often look the other way, even as officers took to official messaging channels to banter about their brutality.
·apnews.com·
Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Louisiana State Police
Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War
Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Long a symbol of pride to some and hatred to others, the Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence 155 years after rebellious Southern states lost a war to perpetuate slavery...
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Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War
Black history curriculum under new scrutiny
Black history curriculum under new scrutiny
For decades, when it was discussed at all, the killing of hundreds of people in a prosperous black business district nearly a century ago was referred to as the Tulsa race riot.
·courthousenews.com·
Black history curriculum under new scrutiny
The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones' warning on democracy
The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones' warning on democracy
NEW YORK (AP) — Following a year of professional milestones born of her work on America’s history of slavery, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image.
·apnews.com·
The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones' warning on democracy
What It Means To 'Say Her Name'
What It Means To 'Say Her Name'
Sandra Bland. Her name, her story, and her 2015 death in a Texas jail cell catapulted one Black woman’s experience of racial profiling, police violence, bail, and jailhouse neglect into the national consciousness.
·essence.com·
What It Means To 'Say Her Name'