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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis. The event sparked nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racist policing. City leaders were promising “ ...
When George Floyd died in 2020, the country — and even the world — erupted in both a figurative and literal explosion, as we were forced by every element of our society to have a nationwide reckoning ...
Hank Houghton of West Brookfield gave emotional remarks about his 44 years in prison, during which his entire family died, ...
When a gunman went on a rampage through Atlanta in 2021, killing eight people at three massage parlors, there was a ...
George Floyd's murder sparked "the racial reckoning that wasn't," said Nia-Malika Henderson in Bloomberg. This week marked ...
Elias Rodriguez’s alleged murderous rampage and the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death came four days apart, and these ...
The Black-led policy project, unveiled in 2020, quickly emerged as a major force for change, with its proposals ranging from ...
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George Floyd, an African American, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made ...
Sports was a major catalyst in the drive for equity after George Floyd’s murder, but time has erased all progress.
At the latest governing board meeting, several spoke out against a new U.S. History text book that includes topics like the ...
The deaths of Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmad Arbery, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, and so many others cry out from the grave ...