Progressives who call the senator ‘Uncle Tim’ should read a celebrated play in which the slur illustrates the high stakes of putting a Black man down.
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Long-withheld video of fatal arrest shows shackled Black man ordered facedown
Body-camera video shows Louisiana state troopers ordering Ronald Greene to keep lying facedown – a tactic that may have hindered his breathing – and an autopsy cited restraint and ‘inflicted head injury’ as factors in his death.
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Congress passes bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bipartisan denunciation of the spate of brutal attacks that have proliferated during coronavirus pandemic.
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Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in Atlanta spa shootings
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also filed notice that she intends to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against Robert Aaron Long, who is white.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Before you report my young Black children to police, let’s talk
The lives of young people of color are at stake because adults are afraid to have conversations with each other.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Why can’t we have nice things? Actually, we could.
Resort-style swimming pools are just one of the public amenities that white people have done without rather than share them with Black people.
Posted inNation & World
Anti-Asian hate crimes skyrocket in cities around the U.S.
A study by the Center for the Study of Hate in Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino found a 164% increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year.
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Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
At least 16 states have contemplated measures to release such records, or summaries of them, publicly. Another eight have discussed making the records accessible to other law enforcement agencies.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Connecticut racial equity meeting interrupted with racist slurs, images
Police are trying to find out who interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force with racist epithets and images of enslaved people.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Real justice shouldn’t be this difficult
The fact that Derek Chauvin’s conviction was not a foregone conclusion is why I feel less exultation than simply relief.