Tag: black lives matter
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BLM Activists, Officials, and Celebs Push For Justice in #RalphYarl Kansas City Shooting Case
Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black boy in Kansas City, Missouri, was allegedly shot in the head by a homeowner after mistakenly going to the wrong house The father of a 16-year-old Kansas City student who was shot Thursday in the Northland said his son, Ralph Yarl, is home from the hospital. Paul Yarl on Monday…
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Duh! BLM Activists Respond To Missing Charges Against White Cop, #PrestonHemphill in Tyre Nichols Police Attack
Video released to the public over the weekend included a mysterious white hand in one of the scenes tasing Nichols. It was Preston Hemphill. His picture was missing from the screenshot of the 5 Black cops who were immediately arrested and charged. For context, we read a lot of OP-ed’s regarding this specific police shooting.…
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Tahyira Savanna and fellow BLM Activists Call Out Akron PD, Door Dash, and Black Politician’s In Jayland Walker Overkill, He was hit with 60 bullets
Police said their initial investigation shows Walker jumped out of a moving car and was chased on foot into a parking lot off East Wilbeth Road, on the Bridgestone Americas campus. Walker then created a “deadly threat” that led officers to shoot at him, police said. Jayland Walker fled first in his vehicle and then on…
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Federal prosecutors have reached plea agreements with Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, on hate crime charges they faced in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, court documents show
Plea agreement documents were filed yesterday in US District Court, Southern District of Georgia on January 30th, 2022. Reps for the Arbery family have stated that they are devastated. The McMichaels were sentenced earlier this month to life in prison without the possibility for parole in a Glynn County, Georgia, for murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a…
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Remembering George Floyd
(Note: With the nation’s attention on Breonna Taylor, I thought it necessary to write about George Floyd. The title is not meant to imply that he has been forgotten. This is meant to keep his name, and the memory of what happened to him, in the public domain.) “The shot heard round the world” refers…
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Outrage, Protest, Arrest In Wake Of Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Results
This was from our CVO Tahyira last night after she saw all the people in the streets on the nightly news. Her sentiment is shared across the spectrum from legal analysts to religious leaders. Criminal Justice reform is on the ballot as Kamala Harris is working hard to fight for real change in legislation that…
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Dijon Kizzee, Shot In L.A. By Police, Video Footage Now Released By LAPD
As reported by the L.A Times: A video obtained by The Times of the controversial shooting of cyclist Dijon Kizzee by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies sheds more light on what happened in the fatal encounter Monday. But questions remain. The hashtag #JusticeForDijonKizzee spread on social media as the American public continues to deal with…
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Workers walk off job across U.S., including in L.A., as part of ‘Strike for Black Lives’. This is what we need
Hundreds of workers rallied Monday outside the Trump International Hotel in Manhattan and in cities across the U.S. to protest systemic racism and economic inequality, joining a nationwide demonstration demanding improvement of Black Americans’ experiences in the workplace. Organizers hoped the effort would grow into a strike inspiring tens of thousands of people to walk…
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Secret Police Will End America’s Democracy
Secret police are tools used by cowards. They are a tool of intimidation. When law enforcement hides its face there is no accountability for its actions. Armed combatants wearing camouflage, body armor, and riot gear have appeared in Washington D.C. and Portland, Oregon. Police officers were not created to be political weapons. The motto of…
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Why John Lewis and C.T. Vivian are Our “Ride or Die” Champions
They Walked Their Talk Representative John Lewis and Reverend C.T. Vivian were down for whateva as our “ride or die” heroes. They formed the vanguard of the civil rights movement from the instant they understood that their skin color imprinted upon them a responsibility to seek fairness in a country that refused to share in…
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Five-Star Basketball Recruit Makur Maker is Blazing a Trail for the Next Generation of Hoop Stars
Five-star high school basketball recruit Makur Maker recently announced where he plans on playing collegiate ball following his time at high school. His decision shocked the entirety of the basketball world. When it came time to make his decision, Maker had his pick of the country’s most elite college programs, including UCLA, Kentucky and Memphis.…
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Blue Lives Matter March Clashes With Counter-Protesters In Brooklyn NYC
The clash happened in Dyker Heights on Saturday at the start of a planned Blue Lives Matter march. Some of the people rallying started yelling at a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who showed up. NYPD officers quickly jumped in to separate the two sides and the Blue Lives Matter group marched as planned.…
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Where to next with #BlackLivesMatter?
As cities across the country continue to paint #BlackLivesMatter across the streets and people continue to be invigorated about making change for the positive, how can we maintain this momentum and challenge the old establishment to make steps in the right direction to halt this systematic racial bias? Form a Lobby Group Lobbying political members…