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San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin recalled in blow to progressives EMWNews.com

On March 18, 2022, Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the least known but most impactful figures in the Civil Rights movement, would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Unless you are a historian of that movement or one of my friends, you probably never heard of him. Quick pop quiz: Before you began reading this article, how many of you have heard of “Bull” ...

The city council in Denver, Colorado, is scheduled to vote on February 22 on giving a $575,000 settlement to a protester who underwent multiple surgeries for an injury she claims she sustained after being struck by a police projectile during the George Floyd protests in May of 2020. The murder of Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a ...

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) announced their intention Thursday to take the “government of Canada to court” and challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act (“the Act”). Invoking a national emergency provides the federal government with sweeping powers to, among other provisions, tackle the ongoing protests and blockades by imposing bans on public assembly in certain ...

A week after former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores, who is Black, filed a lawsuit alleging both racism in the league and being offered money by team owner Stephen Ross to tank games, Goodell vowed action on several fronts. At his annual Super Bowl news conference Wednesday, the NFL commissioner was grilled on two hot topics that have put the ...

In Minnesota, three former Minneapolis police officers are on trial for their involvement in the death of George Floyd under Derek Chauvin’s knee in May of 2020. The three officers face federal charges of violating Floyd’s constitutional rights, and testimony this week has centered on a controversial syndrome referred to as excited delirium. Minnesota Public Radio’s Jon Collins joins us ...

A “trailblazer” in Civil Rights here in the wiregrass has “passed away“. For more than two decades, Bernest Brooks served as Coffee County District 5 commissioner. Brooks is one of the firstblack officials in the wiregrass to be elected countywide. In the 1980s, the federal courts created thepredominantly minority district which stretches across Elba, New Brockton, and into Enterprise.This article was originally published by WDHN(https://www.wdhn.com/news/civil-rights-trailblazer-in-the-wiregrass-passes-away-at-97) Scammers use recent ...

Shariah Miller plans to become a civil rights lawyer so she can fight for equality and justice like other Black women protesting for change. Hailing from Indianapolis, she is an avid social media user who cares about activism, body acceptance, and Black beauty. Yes, I’m only 17, but I’m tired. Not only is the pandemic taking up so much of ...

Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible—often it is systemic and structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and entrenched practices and beliefs that produce, condone, and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment and oppression of people of color, with adverse health consequences. Examples include ...

Black History Month is an opportunity to reflect on the Black experience in America and examine continuing systemic racism and discrimination in the U.S. – issues many Stanford scholars are tackling in their research and scholarship. An unrelenting pandemic that continues to disproportionately affect communities of color, ongoing roadblocks to obstruct efforts to expand the franchise and protect voting discrimination, ...

Dean Greg Sterling has issued an unprecedented acknowledgment of Yale Divinity School’s historical complicity in slavery and racism and has announced a series of actions to make YDS a more just and inclusive community. “We ask God for forgiveness. We ask those against whom we have sinned for forgiveness,” Sterling said in a statement to the Divinity School community(link is ...