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Black Children Continue to be Sent to Adult Courts, Jails at Alarmingly High Rates

February 5, 2019 Staff 0

(Tennessee Tribune) Juvenile arrest rates have fallen sharply in recent years, but Black youth are disproportionately sent to adult court by judges at some of the highest percentages seen in 30 years, according to a […]

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President Announces End to Shutdown

January 27, 2019 Staff 0

The deal includes no money for his border wall.  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent The longest government shutdown in American history is over – and President Donald Trump did not get his Wall. […]

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Civil Rights Museum Re-offers Honor to Angela Davis

January 27, 2019 Staff 0

BIRMINGHAM – An Alabama civil rights museum reversed course after a public outcry and reinstated a human rights award to activist Angela Davis that it had previously rescinded. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute said in […]

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Florida Pardons the Groveland Four: Black Men Wrongly Convicted of Raping White Teenager in 1949

January 14, 2019 Staff 0

  One of the first act of Florida’s new Governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s three-member Cabinet was to grant posthumous pardons to four Black men accused of raping a white woman in 1949 in […]

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Miami Honors Student Files Lawsuit After Being Falsely Accused of Cheating on Her SATs

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

18-year old Kamilah Campbell Miami, FL — Kamilah Campbell, an 18-year old senior high school student, says her SAT results were invalidated after she was falsely accused of cheating – allegedly because she had high […]

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Government Shutdown Closes National Black Museum Indefinitely

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

By Erick Johnson The popular National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) closed Wednesday January 2, the latest attraction to close due to the partial government shutdown. Hundreds of employees at the museum […]

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Tennessee Governor Grants Executive Clemency to Cyntoia Brown

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

by Breana Edwards Finally, there will be some justice for Cyntoia Brown, who has served 15 years in prison for killing a man who solicited her for sex when she was only 16. Tennessee Gov. Bill […]

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Congress Moves to Help Inmates in Federal Prisons But Not in Predominately Black State Prisons

December 27, 2018 Staff 0

by Frederick Lowe Congress has passed legislation reducing sentences for some inmates serving time in federal prisons, but the law won’t affect state prisons and jails where the majority of black men are serving time. […]

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Prada Rolls Out Sambo Style Figures and Black Twitter Rolls Over Prada

December 17, 2018 Staff 0

“I am a 53-year old white man in the south. You can Prada oeuvre all you want. I know blackface when I see it and this it,” wrote an observer of the controversy on Twitter, […]

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Crump Launches Class Action Suit Alleging Company Withholding HIV Drug

November 19, 2018 Staff 0

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A new federal lawsuit against Gilead Sciences exposes how the pharmaceutical giant is putting profits over people, especially oppressed groups including black and LGBT communities, said renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump. […]

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