By Special to the AFRO Various mass shooting survivors told their stories during a gun violence hearing on June 8. This is following last week’s congressional gun hearing in Texas, […]
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Police stops of Black people often filled with fear, anxiety
By Corey Williams and Aaron Morrison, The Associated Press The video seems clear: Patrick Lyoya disobeyed an officer during a traffic stop, tried to run, then wrestled with the officer […]
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A look back at ‘Bloody Sunday’ and its impact on American rights
By AFRO Staff The date was March 7, 1965. Change was hot on the heels of Jim Crow and even the Alabama heat beating overhead and steaming from the pavement […]
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No Conviction for Brett Hankison, sole officer to face charges stemming for shooting in Breonna Taylor’s apartment
By Alexis Taylor, AFRO News Editor On March 3, 2022, the sole officer to face charges for shooting through the apartment leased to Breonna Taylor in March 2020, was found […]
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Black women hold protest in Bridgeport, demand police reform
The Associated Press Black women and their supporters held a protest march in Connecticut’s largest city on Feb. 19, demanding police and government reforms amid accusations of racial insensitivity by […]
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Amir Locke laid to rest
By Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Amir Locke, an aspiring singer and entrepreneur who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer on Feb. 2 during a no-knock raid, was remembered as sharp and […]
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Viral Movements: How internet activism changed the world
By Nadia Reese Special to the AFRO Everyone has interacted with social media in some way. Primarily used to connect people from around the world, recently, the social platforms have […]
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A year after death of mentally ill SC inmate, Black family still seeking charges
By Michelle Liu The Associated Press/Report for America The family of a mentally ill Black man who died after South Carolina jail employees repeatedly stunned him and then kneeled on […]
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Governor pardons Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car […]
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Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies
By The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Maxine McNair, the last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a 1963 Alabama church bombing, died Sunday. […]
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Omega Psi Phi Fraternity offers $15K reward for Jelani Day’s killer
By Chinta Strausberg, The Chicago Crusader The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., announced Wednesday, December 22, that it is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of […]
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Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in Daunte Wright death
By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors on Thursday convicted a suburban Minneapolis police officer of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, […]