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Teen run over by Chicago police car during 2020 George Floyd protests to get $525,000 settlement
CBS News· 5 days agoA teenager who was run over by a Chicago police vehicle during the protests of George Floyd's murder...
Guest columnist Laura Briggs: Why send police to halt a peaceful protest at UMass?
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 58 minutes agoLet’s just say the obvious: The University of Massachusetts Amherst — indeed the overwhelming...
Where does NAACP request to feds to investigate death of Frank Tyson stand? | What we know
The Repository via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoTyson. The 53-year-old Black man died April 18 in the custody of Canton police, with his death...
A Virginia School Board Votes To Restore The Names Of Confederate Leaders At Two Schools | Essence
Essence· 21 hours agoThe Shenandoah County School Board in Virginia has decided to restore the names of Confederate generals Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby to two local schools. This ...
Today in History: May 25, police kill George Floyd
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoToday is Thursday, May 25, the 146th day of 2024. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed ...
$550K settlement proposed for teen run over by police vehicle during 2020 George Floyd protests
Chicago Sun-Times· 6 days agoThe civil unrest that devolved into rampant mayhem after the murder of George Floyd was one of the most chaotic days in Chicago history. The inspector general ...
Tennessee student policies do not threaten free speech, First Amendment experts say
Gannett via AOL· 13 hours agoThe hours set by the university align with those of Tennessee's ban on camping on state land, which...
Cori Bush Calls Out Police and Government Repression of Social Movements
Teen Vogue via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoAnd it happened in Washington, DC, and in communities all across our country in 2020, when ...
Rev. William Lawson, Houston civil rights leader and Third Ward church pastor, dies at 95 | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 6 hours agoAlong with serving as a spiritual guide in a predominantly Black neighborhood south of downtown,...
Why Not Memes? | Lauren Michele Jackson
New York Review of Books· 15 hours agoThe first essay by Lauren Michele Jackson that I ever read was published in the summer of 2020, a week or so into the protests following the death of ...