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Dec 09 2020
Perspectives Blog
Reclaiming Nonviolence in the Age of Antiracism
Editor's Note: An abridged version of this essay was originally published on Persuasion.com, and the full version appeared on Braver Angels.
We must surely have the answer, by now, to Langston Hughes’ question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” The poet wonders—“does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?…Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” We have seen the
John R. Wood Jr.Apr 01 2024
Headline Roundup
IDF Withdraws from Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital Complex
Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza’s largest hospital complex on Monday, ending a two-week siege on Hamas forces there.
For Context: This was the second time Israeli forces had raided Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital, where they said Hamas was regrouping. Hundreds of Palestinians returned to the hospital on Monday, describing scenes of “total destruction” in a place where many Palestinians had
Al Jazeera Fox News (Online News) ReutersApr 04 2023
Headline Roundup
Criminal Indictment of Donald Trump Released, 34 Business Fraud Felonies
The criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump has been released.
Details: A New York grand jury charged Trump with 34 counts of business fraud, accusing him of “falsifying business records in the first degree.” On each charge, the description states that Trump made a “false entry in the business records of an enterprise” with the intent to “defraud and intent to commit
CNBC Washington Examiner Daily BeastJul 19 2017
Headline Roundup
Sessions Expands Civil Asset Forfeiture
Jeff Sessions is expanding a program that allows police officers to seize property from individuals who are suspected of a crime, but have not yet been convicted. The controversial practice, known as civil asset forfeiture, had been reduced under the Obama administration. Proceeds from the practice are often used to fund law enforcement agencies, and many people across the aisle argue that it
Vox The Hill Washington TimesApr 15 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Minnesota Officer Charged With Manslaughter After Fatal Police Shooting Sparks Protests
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As the trial of George Floyd's alleged killer continues in Minneapolis, demonstrations and unrest broke out just miles away in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after another black man, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, was fatally shot by a police officer on Sunday. Police said they stopped Wright for a traffic violation
AllSides StaffSep 09 2022
Headline Roundup
Nevada Official Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Journalist
A Clark County, Nevada official has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a Las Vegas-area journalist.
County Public Administrator Rob Telles was arrested Wednesday night after police recovered evidence from his home tying him to the crime scene. Telles is suspected of murdering Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, who was found fatally stabbed Saturday. A judge ruled
Newsmax (News) Las Vegas Review-Journal CNN (Online News)Aug 25 2014
News
OK, fine. Let's talk about 'black-on-black' violence.
Shortly after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot at least six times by police officer Darren Wilson, his corpse left on the pavement for four hours in a pool of his own blood, his mother gave a harrowing interview to a local St. Louis TV station KMOV.
"Do you know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate? You know how many black men graduate? Not many," she said
VoxApr 19 2023
Headline Roundup
Oklahoma Officials Allegedly Discussed Killing Journalists, Lynching Black People
Three Oklahoma law enforcement officials have been accused of discussing killing journalists and lynching black people in a leaked recording.
The Details: On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association Board of Directors held an emergency meeting and unanimously voted to suspend McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, investigator Alicia Manning, and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix. The
The Daily Caller The Oklahoman HuffPostOct 15 2020
Analysis
With militias on the rise, states boost vigilance
Around the time that Sylvia Santana watched armed men pile into the Michigan Capitol in Lansing to protest pandemic restrictions in April, a plot to attack politicians involving at least one of those men, the FBI says, had begun to hatch.
Tempers were stretched. A seemingly fringe idea transformed into an operation.
Members of a self-constituted militia now envisioned themselves
Christian Science MonitorNov 08 2012
News
Calif. Affirms Death Penalty, Amends 'Three Strikes'
Several thousand prisoners in California may be eligible to apply for sentence reductions, after voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative Tuesday that alters the state's controversial three-strikes law.
But voters also rejected a proposition that would abolish the death penalty in the state. Proposition 34 would have replaced capital punishment with life imprisonment without
NPR (Online News)