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LZ Granderson: Whose lives matter to Texas' governor? Now we know.
Greensboro News & Record· 2 days agoThis is a tale of two pardons in Texas. The first was requested for George Floyd, the Black man...
The mother of a protester whose killer was pardoned says she was robbed of justice
NBC News via Yahoo News· 7 days ago“There’s not been a single week where I have been healthy every day.” Garrett Foster was marching...
Barring legal troubles, measure to dilute Portland police oversight board heads to November ballot
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland· 22 hours agoIn Tuesday's primary, the city of Portland did not feature heavily on ballots of even city...
How to Criminalize a Protest
New York Magazine· 3 days agoThe backlash from lawmakers came just as the movement for Black lives was getting bolder, setting up a potential confrontation that could be far more...
How a Black gay actor became 'Aladdin's longest-running Genie
Out via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMichael James Scott, the longest-running Genie in Disney’s Aladdin, recounts his journey as a Black...
Congressional testimony, encampments and labor action: What to know about UC campus turmoil
Los Angeles Times· 8 hours agoUp the coast in Santa Cruz, unionized academic workers walked off the job in the first of what could...
The state of Austin stand-up comedy: booming, controversial and drawing eyes nationwide
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"He basically led the political environment that made it possible for people to be aggressive in...
Activists call to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge because he owned slave people
NPR· 24 hours agoThe names were changed in 2020 amidst reaction to protests after the George Floyd murder by police...
What Nellie Bowles saw at the revolution
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut around 2020, in the height of the pandemic, and in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement, something started to...
Safe spaces, ‘trigger warnings’ crush free speech and destroy universities’ academic rigor
The Washington Times· 1 day agoDespite their concerted efforts to cultivate likability, university presidents are under siege by...
