Baltimore City State’s attorney, 35-year old Marilyn Mosby, the so-called “hip-hop state’s attorney,” so far has an 0-2 record regarding her prosecution of police officers charged with various inappropriate behaviors in connection with the arrest and transport of Freddie Gray, an African American man who died in police custody.
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Counting the Cost
Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie”, our nation got more evidence of the lie we live when we “celebrate” freedom. On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was killed by White police officers in Baton Rouge, La.
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Jesse Williams: A rising star among new generation of Civil Rights activists
“The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, all right, stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for Black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.”
—Jesse Williams
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Olympian Gabby Douglas gets honored with Barbie doll
This week, after being chosen to return to the Olympics, gold-medal-winning gymnast Gabby Douglas was honored Monday with a Barbie doll modeled after her.
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Indictment in Boyle Heights
Seven Los Angeles men were charged in a federal indictment with firebombing the homes of Black residents in the Boyle Heights area two years ago in an effort to drive them out of the defendants’ Hispanic gang territory, prosecutors announced.
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Spread the H2Love
The Metropolitan Water District this week unveiled an “H2Love” campaign asking Southern Californians to embrace long-term conservation as the state’s drought enters its fifth year and Los Angeles registers record-low rainfall.
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Inglewood Protest, 1st Ld
Hundreds of Black Lives Matters protesters marched in Inglewood, blocked an intersection and stopped traffic on the San Diego (405) Freeway, but dispersed after midnight with little police intervention, authorities said.
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Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Small Businesses” Program Spurs Economic Growth
In 2010, Goldman Sachs launched the “10,000 Small Businesses” program to help business owners unlock their potential for growth and job creation by providing greater access to business education, financial capital and support services.
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NNPA Calls for Special Federal Prosecutor on Racially Motivated Police Killings in the U.S.
Washington, D.C. — Today, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the nation’s largest trade association of African American-owned newspapers and media companies, issued an urgent call and demand that President Barack H. Obama and U.S Attorney General Loretta Lynch appoint a Special Federal Prosecutor in the wake of the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
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Indictment in Boyle Heights
Seven Los Angeles men were charged in a federal indictment with firebombing the homes of Black residents in the Boyle Heights area two years ago in an effort to drive them out of the defendants’ Hispanic gang territory, prosecutors announced.
