With New York City poised to reopen after a more than two-month coronavirus shutdown, officials on Sunday lifted a curfew that was in place amid protests of police brutality and racial injustice. But they also urged that demonstrators be tested for COVID-19. “Get a test. Get a test,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told people […]
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Criminals stealing unemployment benefits as claims surge
Criminals are seizing on a surge in job losses to steal unemployment benefits from Americans nationwide. This complicates an already tough situation for millions of financially strapped Americans and overwhelmed state unemployment offices. While there’s no exact measure of how many fraudulent claims have been made, states from Washington to Maine say they’ve seen an […]
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Marines ban depictions of the Confederate flag, including on bumper stickers and mugs
The US Marine Corps has ordered the removal of all public displays of the Confederate flag from Marine installations. The Marines made the announcement Friday, following growing removals of Confederate monuments and imagery across the country. “The Marine Corps shall remove the Confederate battle flag from all installation public spaces and work areas in order […]
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NASCAR vows to do better job addressing racial injustice
Bubba Wallace donned a black T-shirt with the words “I Can’t Breathe” and NASCAR paused before Sunday’s Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway to acknowledge the country’s social unrest. The governing body vowed to to do a better job of addressing racial injustice in the wake of George Floyd’s death. During their warm-up laps, the […]
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Colin Kaepernick: Timeline of a gesture and its echoes
Colin Kaepernick was a second-round draft pick in 2011. The next year he led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl. By 2016, he had begun kneeling on the sideline at games during the national anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality. Soon after, he was gone from the NFL, and he has […]
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George Floyd’s death an American tragedy with global echoes
When black men died at the hands of U.S. police in recent years, the news made international headlines. The name of George Floyd has reached the world’s streets. Since his death while being detained by Minneapolis police last week, Floyd’s face has been painted on walls from Nairobi, Kenya to Idlib, Syria. His name has been inked […]
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Abrams: ‘I do what I can to support their message, but not to distract from their efforts’
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said she has not physically joined in the protests over the death of George Floyd, but is being supportive in other ways, believing that young people should lead and her participation would only “distract” from the demonstrators’ message. “I appreciate the instinct of leaders to join in these protests, but too […]
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Ryan Williams, a 32-year-old black CEO, says America has been ‘hallucinating’ about racism and inequality. Until now.
The United States is experiencing a “reckoning” over race, justice and inequality that has been decades in the making, fintech CEO Ryan Williams told CNN Business. “We’ve been hallucinating as a country for a long time,” said Williams, the 32-year-old African American founder of Cadre, a startup disrupting the real estate industry with the support […]
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Buffalo Bills quarterback Jake Fromm apologizes for ‘elite white people’ text
Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback Jake Fromm has apologized after images surfaced of him referring to “elite white people” in a text conversation from a year ago. The conversation was dated March 2019, when Fromm was the starting quarterback at the University of Georgia, and was posted to Twitter Thursday by a user with an unknown […]
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Source: Melania Trump’s messages of “healing and peace” is frustrating the West Wing
First lady Melania Trump’s messaging in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the resulting protests around the country has frustrated the West Wing, according to a White House official. Out of sync with the “law and order” mantra President Donald Trump has supported, the first lady in a handful of tweets has […]
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Fact check: Trump glosses over racial disparities in jobs numbers while invoking George Floyd
President Donald Trump had stunningly good jobs data to talk about on Friday. Instead of rising, as expected, the US unemployment rate surprisingly fell to 13.3% in May, as the economy gained 2.5 million jobs. It was the largest monthly gain in new jobs since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking the data series in 1939. […]
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deGregory: White supremacy in Wakanda
The executions of Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, George Floyd, and countless other unarmed black men and women have ignited a series of protests that have moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to cities all across the United States, and now the world over. The gig, it seems, is up. Black people in America, […]
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NFL comments on George Floyd and gets roasted on Kaepernick
NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, 32, hasn’t played in the NFL since the 2016 season. He was blackballed by the NFL after silently protesting police brutality by silently taking a knee on the sidelines during the national anthem at the start of NFL games. Kaepernick became a free agent after the 2017 season but was not […]
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Judge: $750K bail for 3 ex-officers accused in Floyd’s death
A judge set bail at $750,000 apiece Thursday for three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the killing of George Floyd, as a memorial service took place just blocks away. Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng made their first appearances in Hennepin County District Court as friends, relatives and celebrities gathered […]
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Family of man killed by police amid protests demands answers
The family of a popular barbecue chef killed in a clash with law enforcement said he was protecting his restaurant amid chaos caused when officers began pelting people with pepper balls. They questioned the account by police, which released surveillance video they said appeared to show David McAtee firing a gun from the door as […]