Family members of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was paralyzed after a Kenosha police officer shot him in the back, are leading a march and rally Saturday to call for an end to police violence. Event organizers said the demonstration would include a march to the Kenosha County Courthouse and speeches by members of […]
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Activists gather for another March on Washington, 57 years later
Fifty-seven years to the day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, relatives of African Americans killed or injured in recent police encounters took to the same spot on the National Mall to emotionally call for social and political change. “We will not be a footstool to oppression, “Jacob Blake‘s sister, […]
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issues orders to expand voting access, COVID-19 accommodations
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued executive and administrative orders to expand access to the polls and make it easier for Atlanta residents and employees to vote in light of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Bottoms reissued administrative and executive orders to assist Atlanta residents and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, to be […]
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Trump lashes Biden, defies pandemic on White House stage
Facing a national moment fraught with racial turmoil and a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump accepted his party’s renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night, boasting of helping African Americans and defying his own administration’s pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd. As troubles churned outside the gates, […]
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Vigilante calls on social media before deadly Kenosha attack
Repeated calls for armed vigilantes to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to protect businesses following the police shooting of Jacob Blake spread across social media in the hours before two people were shot to death and a third was wounded during a third night of unrest in the city. Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit urged […]
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#Election2020: 7 takeaways from the Republican convention
President Donald Trump and Republicans manufactured a mirage. Over their four-day convention this week, Trump and his allies treated the coronavirus pandemic as nearing its end. Peaceful protesters’ causes were ignored as they were lumped in with destructive rioters. Trump was cast as the architect of the greatest economy in history, but blameless in its […]
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Continuity could help Falcons rebound in pandemic season
The Atlanta Falcons decided to stick with the guy who led them to the Super Bowl. That continuity could be a major asset heading into this most unusual of seasons. Coach Dan Quinn’s job was in jeopardy after two straight losing campaigns, but the Falcons brought him back for a sixth year. Longtime general manager Thomas Dimitroff […]
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At RNC, GOP echoes racial code of Nixon’s 1968 campaign
The question was how he planned to address poverty. In his reply, the Republican running for president quickly pivoted to a central campaign theme — denouncing the fiery chaos that had erupted in American cities during protests over civil rights. “We have reaped not a solution of poverty, but we’ve reaped the riots that have […]
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Tensley: John Lewis’ March on Washington speech is still relevant 57 years later
In 1963, a young John Lewis arrived at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom prepared to excoriate the Kennedy administration, which many racial justice activists viewed as lacking moral resolve in its approach to civil rights. The speech was so damning, though, that other leaders asked Lewis to tamp it down. But even […]
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Thousands gather at March on Washington commemorations
Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates on Friday denounced police and vigilante violence against Black Americans at a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Thousands gathered near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where the Rev. […]
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‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43
Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer, his representative said. He was 43. Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side, his publicist […]
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#Election2020: Obama lauds Milwaukee Bucks for ‘standing up for what they believe in’ after boycott
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised the Milwaukee Bucks for “standing up for what they believe in” following the team’s decision to boycott their NBA playoff game in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the team’s home state of Wisconsin. “I commend the players on the @Bucks for standing up for […]
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say they spoke to Jacob Blake’s family
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said Wednesday that they spoke to the family of Jacob Blake, the Black man shot in the back by police on Sunday as he tried to enter his vehicle in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A video captured by a witness shows a police officer shooting Blake, 29, multiple times in the back […]
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Shields: ‘How stereotypes, stigmas impact Black women’s money’
Coming on the heels of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which is the date that Black women have to work into the new year to finally catch up to what white men earned last year, is National Women’s Equality Day. Although there continue to be massive inequities between genders, particularly in regards to the workplace, […]
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Trump stays silent on Jacob Blake shooting but vows to stop violent protests and slams the NBA
Even as President Donald Trump loudly pledges to restore “law and order” to a Wisconsin city gripped by protests, he has remained silent on what prompted the unrest: another police shooting of a Black man. Asked about the situation during a storm briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters on Thursday, Trump focused on […]