By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green talks Minneapolis city council reps disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department and what’s trending in this weeks AFRO AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.
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Silverman’s Tweet Deflects Support for Black Lives Matter DC
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com On June 8 activists from Black Lives Matter and other concerned residents asked Council member Elissa Silverman (I- At-large) via Twitter if she would defund the police; however, while the Jewish politician expressed her support of the movement, she used her reply for a backhanded deflection towards support […]
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D.C. Council Passes Emergency Police Reform Bill
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com After more than two weeks of protests in the nation’s capital and worldwide, with thousands speaking out against police brutality and systemic racism, on June 9, the District of Columbia Council voted unanimously to pass emergency legislation that will dramatically affect the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The Comprehensive […]
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Mayor Announces Slow Streets for Public Social Distancing
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com The District of Columbia is in its first phase of reopening and creeping towards criteria that would constitute Phase Two; and with the summer sun in full effect, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is now offering Washingtonians a way to be out and about, while also social distancing. On […]
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Announcing Congresswoman Johnson’s 2020 Congressional App Challenge
Announcing Congresswoman Johnson’s 2020 Congressional App Challenge WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office is excited to announce the Congressional App Challenge (CAC), an app competition for students in middle and high school. The CAC accepts computer programs (or apps) written in any programming language, for any platform (desktop/PC, web, mobile, raspberry Pi, etc.). […]
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VIDEO: Activists Demand D.C. ‘Defund’ Police Amid Peaceful Protests After City Renames Street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’
Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police force. Just one person was arrested, according to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser designed a city […]
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Protesters Topple Confederate Statue in Virginia Capital
By The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A small group of demonstrators toppled a statue of a Confederate general in the the former capital of the Confederacy late Saturday, following a day of largely peaceful protests in the Virginia city. The statue of Gen. Williams Carter Wickham was pulled from its pedestal in Monroe […]
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THE RUN DOWN – TRUMP’s BOGUS CHURCH PHOTO
By AFRO.COM / Be Inspired Global Host Micha Green talks Trump’s Bogus Church Photo and what’s trending in this weeks AFRO AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.
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Biden Formally Clinches Democratic Presidential Nomination
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest. “It was an honor to compete alongside one […]
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Black Lives Matter Plaza Leads Road to The White House
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com When George Clinton collaborated with Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Yo-Yo, KAM, MC Breed and Pupa Curley for the 1993 song, “Paint the White House Black,” it was a means of positive protest against systemic racism, police brutality and unjust treatment of Black communities. Some 27 years […]
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Norton Condemns Senator Lee’s Attack on D.C. Mayor, Frequent Home-Rule Violator
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) statements that District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is “ungrateful” and “must be stopped” from allegedly “evicting” the Utah National Guard and other state guards from D.C. hotels. Norton noted that state national guards have been deployed in D.C. by state […]
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A United Stance in a Divided Country
Protestors took to downtown Washington, D.C. to protest police brutality and injustices against Black people. (Photo by Mike Van Wood)
