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Macy Gray Is on a Mission to Support Families of Police-Brutality Victims Shondaland 3 hrs ago Nicole Pajer © Giuliano Bekor The singer-songwriter talks to Shondaland about My Good, a foundation she created in 2020 to support families whose loved ones were killed by police. Daunte Wright, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd are just a few of the many victims of police killings. We turn on the news and see these stories play out, then the buzz around the headlines dies down, an...

AVC: I’m sure that writing it also felt therapeutic. MD: I think you never sometimes really know what the themes are of an album until after it’s done, and you are listening back, and you’re like, “Oh, okay, we were really feeling something there.” So much of what Mannequin Pussy songs have always been is finding themselves somewhere in the process of grief. So my theory has always been, “Why would I write the same aggressive song over and over if the way that we feel about situatio...

Art & Design|How Plywood From Last Year’s Protests Became Art https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts/design/george-floyd-memorialize-the-movement.html Tanda Francis in her studio, working on her sculpture “RockIt Black,” which was installed in Queensbridge Park in New York this month.Credit...Ike Edeani for The New York Times Sections How Plywood From Last Year’s Protests Became Art During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boa...

Panel says faith community must lead slavery reparations LUIS ANDRES HENAO, Associated Press May 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail This Sunday, July 10, 2016 photo shows the First Baptist Church, left, the First Baptist Church of Christ, center, and Saint Josephs Catholic Church in Macon, Ga. About 170 years ago, the two Baptist churches were one congregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fight over abolition and slavery started tearing badly at religious groups and moving the c...

By Susan Jones | May 19, 2021 | 7:20am EDT A woman holds a Black Lives Matter flag during the funeral service of Daunte Wright in Minneapolis, April 22, 2021. (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - The Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center has decided that armed police officers should not be the "first, last and only resort" in responding to calls for help. On Saturday, the city council voted 4-1 to pass police reforms, including the crea...

George Floyd memorial this weekend will exhibit murals from uprising for the first time "Justice for George" memorial will exhibit murals from the uprising for the first time.  May 20, 2021 — 11:11am Text size Copy shortlink: Its been nearly a year since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Boarded-up storefronts, buildings set aflame and days of protests are burned into peoples minds and hearts. For Leesa Kelly, Kenda Z...

The attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown might as well come out and say that Brown should never have been shot by police because crime ought to be legalized.

Follow CNN Politics How did America end up with a policing crisis? And whats the path forward? An expert explains Updated 2:02 PM ET, Thu May 20, 2021 A version of this story appeared in CNNs Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free . Tell us what youd like to see more of in the newsletter at racedeconstructed@cnn.com. Washington (CNN)Since George Floyds murder last May, the US has engaged in another reckoning with racial caste, examining the endurin...

Kim Potter, 48, the ex-officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota who murdered Daunte Wright, 20, is headed to trial before the end of this year in December. As we previously shared, Potter is facing a second-degree manslaughter charge for the fatal shooting of the young Black man she killed during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021. Although Potter believed she wielded her taser and yelled out, “Taser! Taser! Taser!” during the incident, she pulled her gun and fired a single shot, fatally striki...

Fox News' Will Cain accused high-profile attorney Benjamin Crump of being one of the most "destructive forces" in the country.