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Tuesday, May 25, 2021, marks one year since the horrific murder of George Floyd by former police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was found guilty of all three charges brought against him on April 20, 2021. Mr. Floyd’s murder was filmed on a camera phone and shared all over the world. Individuals nationwide organized to march, protest, and kneel in honor of George Floyd.

The deception isn’t just a matter of language. It’s baked into the institution.

The Miami Police Department shows its tactics behind preventing weapons confusion.

The new report revealed that at least 28 percent of those killed were African Americans, who make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population. Although this figure is staggering, the Center for American Progress (CAP) noted that it is almost certainly under-represents the actual number of civilians who died while in the custody of the criminal justice system.

Times journalists Carolyn Cole and Molly Hennessy-Fiske say state troopers cornered and attacked them when they were covering a protest.

The violence, destruction, and unrest that Cedric Powell has witnessed at nine years old is more than some experience in a lifetime.  He regularly plays at his grandmother’s house in North Minneapolis in the shadows of barbed wire fencing, operating his remote controlled car pass concrete barriers and feet from a charred parking spot where a police cruiser was set on fire last year.

As we mark the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, and the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre, of over 100 African Americans on May 31-June 1, 1921, it is time for reflections, or better said a data report card....

U.S. embassies around the world are flying Black Lives Matter flags to mark the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. 

While a number of Black bookstore owners said they were grateful for the increase in business, they worried that this sudden interest in certain books would only put a temporary Band-Aid on the much more pervasive problem of systemic racism in the U.S.

Questions stem from a resignation after cop was charged in Daunte Wright's death.