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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
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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
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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
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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)May 18 2023
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Deutsche Bank to Pay $75M in Jeffrey Epstein Lawsuit
German lender Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $75 million this week to settle a lawsuit accusing it of enabling Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes.
The Details: An anonymous woman alleged in the suit that Epstein abused her, and that Deutsche Bank knew Epstein was using his accounts to fund sex trafficking crimes, but continued to do business with him anyway. Epstein used Deutsche Bank from 2013
Daily Mail BBC News The GuardianAug 19 2013
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Obama's Paltry Pardon Record Contradicts Eric Holder's Concern Over Drug War Incarceration
Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks about criminal justice to an American Bar Association gathering this week were in many ways groundbreaking. After nearly 35 years of "lock 'em up" rhetoric from public officials, a sitting United States attorney general has finally conceded that the policies resulting from that rhetoric may have gone too far.
Holder declared that the criminal
HuffPostJan 21 2019
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Understanding Racial Inequality
In light of Martin Luther King Day, news outlets debate the overarching state of racism in modern society. Some argue that the black civil rights battles are over, and that disparities between the races are not driven by racism, but by culture, such as trends surrounding marriage, education, and crime. Others say that racism is systemic, citing voter suppression, racial divides in schools, as
Prager University AllSides The RootMar 20 2024
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Hong Kong Faces Western Criticism Over Beijing-Backed Security Law
The Chinese government pushed back on Wednesday against criticism of Hong Kong’s newly passed national security law, which includes provisions for life imprisonment for crimes such as treason and insurrection.
The Details: The law's unanimous passage comes two years after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in the city following protests in 2019. Notably, local legislation
NBC News (Online) South China Morning Post The Epoch TimesDec 01 2023
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Fact-Checking the Ron DeSantis-Gavin Newsom Debate
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) slung no shortage of claims at Thursday's "red state vs. blue state" debate. Here's what the fact-checkers said.
California to Florida Migration: Newsom said that per capita, more Floridians are moving to California than vice versa. According to the Sacramento Bee (Lean Left bias), "37,464 people left California for
PolitiFact AllSides Breitbart Fact CheckOct 28 2022
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Is the Democratic Party Losing the Support of Black Voters?
Black voters have long been perceived as a reliable base of support for the Democratic Party. A number of published perspectives backed by poll numbers are casting doubt on the truth of this belief in the current political landscape. Driven by issues of economics and crime, many are speculating that Democratic candidates will see undersized support from black voters in the midterm elections.
The Hill Axios Newsweek