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By Jorge Solis, Newsweek 21 years ago, an unarmed Amadou Diallo was tragically killed by four plain-clothed New York City police officers, who fired 41 shots at him. Last month,…
By Mabinty Quarshie, N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Anne Godlasky, Jim Sergent, and Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY When people talk about systemic racism, they mean systemic: impacting institutions, policies and outcomes across all…
By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 21, 1940, a twenty-six-year-old black man named Jesse Thornton referred to a passing police officer by his name: Doris Rhodes. When…
By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 13, 1961, an interracial group of eighteen rabbis and ministers participated in a freedom ride to Tallahassee, Florida, sponsored by the…
By Bill Littlefield, WBUR On April 23, 1971, the Supreme Court voted to send the world’s best-known athlete to jail. The count was 5-3, with Justice Thurgood Marshall recusing himself,…
By Ben Kesslen, NBC News The discrimination complaint says corrections personnel of color were barred from the floor where the former officer accused in George Floyd’s death was held. Eight…
By Dana Givens, Black Enterprise Corporations and public institutions are now being forced to speak up and out about racial discrimination and injustice towards African Americans in light of the…
By ESPN News Services, ESPN A noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, on Sunday, less than two weeks after Wallace,…
By Luis Ferré-Sadurní & Jesse McKinley, The New York Times The state became one of the first to make major changes in police practices in the wake of George Floyd’s…
By Madison Pauly, Mother Jones “This is SYSTEMIC RACISM and OPPRESSION,” tweeted LeBron James. On Tuesday, Kentucky voters will determine which Democrat will challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in…