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 ...
Read More »NFL commissioner calls charges of systemic racism very disturbing
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 ...
Read More »The latest on the civil rights trial of 3 officers involved in George Floyd’s death
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 ...
Read More »Civil Rights trailblazer in the wiregrass passes away at 97 EMWNews.com
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 ...
Read More »Stand For Something Life needs to achieve Nonprofit status GoFundMe
Stand For Something Life needs to achieve Nonprofit status so that we can address the criminal justice reform issue with real clear solutions that are tried and true proven to reduce crime and recidivism. How do I know this program works? I lived it! I was in and out of prison for over 2 decades, and I beat all ...
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