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By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On the morning of June 18, 2015, police apprehended a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof and arrested him on suspicion of murder.…
By Derek Hawkins, Matt Zapotosky and Fenit Nirappil , The Washington Post The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks after a DUI stop was charged with felony…
By Quincy Walters, NPR Mayor Marty Walsh on Friday declared racism a public health crisis in Boston. To tackle the emergency, Walsh said he will reallocate $3 million of the…
By Jennifer Bendery, HuffPost Tribal governments were supposed to get $8 billion in direct emergency relief from the CARES Act, the $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill that became law on…
By Ambar Pardilla, HuffPost Literary experts share the old and modern classics by Black authors to add to your reading list. Historically, a lot of literature taught in schools is…
By Ben Kesslen, NBC News “We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype,” Quaker Oats said, adding that the move is an effort “toward progress on racial…
By Abby Phillip, CNN, Politics Tulsa, Oklahoma (CNN)Before George Floyd, and before there were nationwide protests across the country against police brutality and racism, there was Terence Crutcher. In 2016,…
Tamara Natalie Madden was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica and raised in Manchester, Jamaica. It was during her childhood in Manchester that Madden was exposed to her first artistic influences.…
By Sheila Flynn, Daily Mail They gathered around the steps of a Harlem brownstone on a summer morning in 1958, singers and writers, clarinetists and trumpet players, trombonists and drummers,…
By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 16, 1944, George Stinney Jr., a ninety-pound, black, fourteen-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. Three…