National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) To Be Equal #53 December 31, 2020 With Tamir Rice Decision, Trump’s Justice Department Once Again Protects The Powerful At The Expense Of The Powerless Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “Anyone with decent vision can see from the parking-lot video […]
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Ohio police officer fired in fatal shooting of Black man
Karissa Hill, daughter of Andre’ Hill, stands beside Attorney Ben Crump during a vigil being held for her father at Brentnell Community Recreation Center on Columbus. Ohio, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. The police chief of Columbus, Ohio, recommended on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, that the officer who shot and killed Hill, a 47-year-old Black man, […]
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SNCC founder’s parting words on racial justice
By J. K. Schmid, AFRO Business Writer Where is the Civil Rights Movement? It’s a tricky question as politicians and activists, police and the oppressed struggle now in the aftermath of this year’s police shooting of Breonna Taylor and the strangulation to death of George Floyd. It gets trickier still looking back at the murders […]
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Black man, Casey Goodson Jr., fatally shot by Ohio sheriff’s deputy
Goodson family attorney Sean Walton called Goodson, “an amazing young man whose life was tragically taken.” NNPA NEWSWIRE — CNN reported that the involvement of multiple law enforcement agencies complicated the investigation of the case. Columbus Police, which was not involved in the shooting, announced Monday afternoon that the investigation had been turned over to […]
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Home of Civil Rights Icon Medgar Evers Named as a National Monument
In this Aug. 9, 1955 file photo, Medgar Evers, state secretary for the NAACP poses for a photo in Jackson, Miss. The historic home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is now a national monument, the U.S. interior secretary and members of Mississippi’s congressional delegation announced Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. The designation for the […]
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Are we SAD and don’t know it?
Dr. KaNisha Hall discusses SAD (seasonal affective disorder) as it relates to the current challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, continued racism and political disorder, and offers solutions to combat SADness. (Courtesy Photo) By Dr. KaNisha L. Hall, M.D. Special to the AFRO How could this be? In this new normal of pandemic panic, political anxiety […]
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Trump plans to execute four Black death row Inmates before he leaves office
Trump and Barr’s Justice Department have recently updated protocols to allow for federal executions by poison gas and firing squad. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA) NNPA NEWSWIRE — Trump and Barr have executed about 25% of all death row prisoners and, according to a recent interview with the Associated Press, the Attorney General has not only […]
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LDF Releases Report on Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Proceedings, Calls for Special Prosecutor and New Grand Jury
LDF Releases Report on Grand Jury Proceedings Involving the Police Killing of Breonna Taylor, Calls for Special Prosecutor and New Grand Jury Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor and new grand jury to examine the police killing of Breonna Taylor. Last month, […]
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Family seeks answers in death of 15-year-old
The family of Quawan Charles, victim of an alleged drowning, seeks answers for Charles’ untimely death. (Courtesy photo) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com The death of 15-year old Quawan Charles has some likening his fate to that of Emmett Till, who was murdered at the hands of two White men in Money, Miss. […]
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Death of Black Louisiana Teenager Quawan ‘Bobby’ Charles Deemed ‘Emmett Till-like Lynching’
Many gathered along with Quawan’s family on Wednesday, Nov. 11, outside of the Iberia Parish Courthouse to demand more information be released. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Who is Quawan “Bobby” Charles, and why are some comparing his death to Emmett Till? The 15-year-old’s death has sparked demonstrations in rural Iberia […]
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Bond Denied for White Father, Son Charged in Ahmaud Arbery Slaying
In this image made from video, from left, father and son, Gregory and Travis McMichael, accused in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia on Feb. 2020, listen via closed circuit tv in the Glynn County Detention center in Brunswick, Ga., on Thursday, Nov. 12, as lawyers argue for bond to be set at […]
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Authorities ‘Following Every Lead’ into Black Teen’s Death
This undated photo provided by the family through the NAACP shows Quawan Charles. Activists and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana are calling for an independent investigation into the death of Charles, a Black 15-year-old whose body was found Nov. 3, 2020, days after he was reported missing. (Family Photo/Courtesy of NAACP via AP) […]