By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As the saying goes, “children are the future,” and in the Aug. 11 virtual town hall- “2020/DC Youth Speak: COVID-19, George Floyd & Change,” the youth of Washington, D.C. shared their concerns, hopes and ideas for an improved city and world, as well as solicited advice from some […]
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Police: Stop Treating Us Like Animals. We Do Not Belong On The Ground
By Larry S. Gibson The video is heart wrenching – police officers standing over five black females lying face down on the ground, some with their hands cuffed behind their backs, the six year old girl crying and pleading to be put next to her teenage sister, who was struggling to keep her face up […]
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Breonna Taylor’s Mother: I’m Trying to be Patient
By DYLAN LOVAN, Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Five months after her daughter was shot to death by police, Breonna Taylor’s mother said she is trying to be patient while waiting to hear if the officers will be charged. But it’s hard, she said, when every day feels like the day her daughter died. […]
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Oprah Winfrey Demanding Justice for Breonna Taylor with Billboards
By The Associated Press First, Oprah Winfrey put Breonna Taylor on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. Now the media mogul is spreading her message with billboards demanding justice for the Kentucky woman shot to death during a police raid. Twenty-six billboards displaying a portrait of Taylor are going up across Louisville, Ky., demanding […]
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Veteran Kneels for Nine Hours in Silent Protest in Utah
By The Associated Press A Marine Corps veteran knelt for nine hours at the Utah Capitol to call attention to racial injustice, police brutality and mental health. Shane Brooks said people of color with mental illness are “looked at as if they have already committed a crime” and some end up dead in encounters with […]
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Say Her Name: Korryn Gaines
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com On March 10, 2016, Korryn Shandawn Gaines, 23, was driving around Baltimore County with a cardboard license plate which allegedly read: “Any government official who compromises this pursuit of happiness and right to travel, will be held criminally responsible and fined, as this is a natural right and […]
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DC Releases Police Footage From 2018 Deaths of 3 Black Men
By ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from the D.C. Council, Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department on Friday released long-sought body camera and security footage from the 2018 deaths of three young Black men in 2018. The release was compelled by an emergency police reform bill that Mayor Muriel Bowser criticized as rushed. […]
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Change Laws That Shield Police, Missouri Prosecutor Says
By JIM SALTER and AARON MORRISON, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — After a third review failed to uncover enough evidence to charge the officer who fatally shot Black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, some prosecutors and civil rights leaders agree it’s time to focus on changing the laws that shield police. In an […]
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Task Force Calls For Police Reform In Prince George’s County
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com The loudest calls for police reform rose above the chants to defund local departments when a coalition of minority officers proposed sweeping changes in Prince George’s County. Just over a month following the resignation of former Prince George’s County police chief Hank Stawinski, a group of current and […]
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Baltimore Action #SayHerName to Coincide With D.C. March for Vanessa Guillen
Activists Plan Protest & Rally #SayHerName to Coincide with D.C. March for Vanessa Guillen Protesting Violence Against Black, Brown & Indigenous Women by Police & the Military WHAT: SAY HER NAME PROTEST & RALLY WHEN: THURSDAY, JULY 30, 6 PM WHERE: @ GARMATZ BUILDING, 101 W. LOMBARD ST. Downtown Baltimore WHO: Peoples Power Assembly and […]
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We Still #SayHerName: Remembering Sandra Bland 5 Years Later
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Say her name for every year since her justice fighting light was dimmed. It’s been five years since Bland was arrested, detained and found hanging three days later in a Waller County, Texas jail cell. Her death was […]
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AFRO’s Sean Yoes Pens New Book Chronicling Influential “Race and Politics” Column
By Stephen Janis, Special to the AFRO In his “Race and Politics” column, Sean Yoes, has chronicled many of the difficult challenges and tragedies over the last three years in Baltimore since the death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent uprising in April 2015. He has compiled more than 50 of those commentaries in his new […]