Amber Brown, a Louisville city bus driver, sets up Breonna Taylor artwork at a long-time protest site in Louisville, Ky., Aug. 24, 2020. Brown and others have demonstrated at the downtown public square for months, calling for police officers to be charged in the slaying of Taylor, who was shot in her home March 13. […]
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BPD Officer Charged, Multiple Counts of Assault
This image shows Officer Leon Riley laying on top of 23-year- old David Dixon using what prosecutors allege were “overly aggressive tactics.” (Screenshot of Youtube video) By Stephen Janis Special to the AFRO A Baltimore police officer who was captured on video lying atop of a man who said he couldn’t breathe, has been charged […]
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Ravens Lobby Senate for George Floyd Legislation
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Playing for a city that has witnessed its share of corruption and unwarranted violence at the hands of law enforcement, the Baltimore Ravens have decided to enter the political arena as a team and push the United States Senate to pass law enforcement reform legislation. This week the […]
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Kenosha Shooting Strains Tie Between Black Residents, Police
By COREY WILLIAMS and RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Until the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the bedroom community of Kenosha had been largely untouched by the level of demonstrations that were seen in nearby Milwaukee and Chicago after the death of George Floyd. Like other places in America, Kenosha’s Black residents […]
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‘How Dare We Not Vote?’ Black Voters Organize After DC March
By KAT STAFFORD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tears streamed down Brooke Moreland’s face as she watched tens of thousands gather on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to decry systemic racism and demand racial justice in the wake of several police killings of Black Americans. But for the Indianapolis mother of three, the fiery […]
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‘7 bullets, 7 days’: Protesters March for Blake in Kenosha
By STEPHEN GROVES and AMY FORLITI, Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Roughly a thousand people gathered Saturday in Kenosha for a march and rally against police violence, about a week after an officer shot Jacob Blake in the back and left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed. Marchers chanted “No justice, no peace!” and “Seven […]
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Activists: Militias Tolerated, Kenosha Protesters Arrested
By JAKE BLEIBERG and STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Police officers in Kenosha were on alert after days of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake by one of their colleagues, and they’d recently gotten a tip about “suspicious vehicles” from out of state. So, after watching a group of people fill […]
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Black National Convention Puts Spotlight on Police Brutality
By AARON MORRISON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Black Lives Matter activists are holding their first Black National Convention Friday, a virtual event that will adopt a political agenda calling for slavery reparations, universal basic income, environmental justice and legislation that entirely re-imagines criminal justice reform. The gathering follows Democratic and Republican party conventions […]
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Thousands Expected at March on Washington Commemorations
By AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates will highlight the scourge of police and vigilante violence against Black Americans at a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and […]
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Unrest in Kenosha Following Jacob Blake Shooting
By Jessica Dortch AFRO Production Editor Gruesome, horrific, outrageous and disgusting are a few words that describe the scene in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 23 in which an unarmed Black man, later identified as Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in close range by police officers. The video footage that later went viral showed 29-year-old […]
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Survey Finds Black Americans Don’t Want Police Abolished Despite George Floyd Protests
Even in the city where Floyd was killed by an officer, black residents see abolishing the police as a needless punishment. By Hadassah Patterson, Zenger News Defunding or abolishing police departments has become a national debate in the wake of George Floyd’s death, but Minneapolis residents say abolishment isn’t necessarily a clear-cut answer. Some even view […]
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From The Jackson/Mitchell Files: More About Our Fight For Freedom
By Lisa Mitchell Sennaar Organizing support and voting for representatives who will vote to protect our rights are not new to Black Baltimoreans. We should, however, do a better job of educating our young leaders about the strategies that were utilized to leverage our power with elected representatives in the past. I am old enough […]