The fierce urgency of action on racialized police violence (opinion) CNN 1 hr ago By Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst © Scott Olson/Getty Images BROOKLYN CENTER, MINNESOTA - APRIL 14: Demonstrators face off with sheriff deputies during a protest at the Brooklyn Center police station on April 14, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. This is the fourth day of protests in the suburban Minneapolis city following the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter, who has since resigned from the force and today was charged with second-degree manslaughter.† (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Over the past few weeks, the nation has seen another series of horrific videos documenting both violent treatment and deaths of Black and brown people at the hands of police. Even as the world was reliving the killing of George Floyd as videos of his death under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvi
The fierce urgency of action on racialized police violence (opinion)
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Wilson served as U.S. president from 1913 to 1921. While known for his vision of a League of Nations in the aftermath of World War I, he also segregated federal agencies after years of integration and supported Jim Crow laws in Washington, D.C. While president of Princeton, he also opposed enrolling Black students.
The renaming process began in earnest in January with a committee of students, faculty and parents drawing up guiding values and soliciting name recommendations from the community. From dozens of names, the committee opted to recognize Baker, a behind-the-scenes civil rights leader. As an advocate for civil rights and economic justice over 50 years, she provided leadership to the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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April 9, 2021
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(THE CONVERSATION) In a cramped cell in a South Carolina prison camp, 22-year-old African American activist Thomas Gaither wrote, “I am presently in deep contemplation as to just what our nation and our particular region of the nation prizes most.”
It was Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961, and Gaither was serving a 30-day term of hard labor on a road gang for what police called “trespassing,” when he and students from Friendship Junior College staged a sit-in at a Rock Hill, South Carolina, lunch counter. The letter he was writing marked day 23.
Georgiaâs Voter Suppression Is Sparking Boycotts. History Shows They Can Work.
Dontaye Carter and daughter Kyleigh Carter look around the capitol building as demonstrators hold a sit-in inside of the capitol building in opposition of House Bill 531 on March 8, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Georgiaâs new voting law, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on March 25, is part of a nationwide voter suppression effort involving hundreds of bills. No serious analyst buys the Republican claim that voter fraud is widespread: itâs virtually nonexistent. The real rationale for these bills is occasionally admitted, as when North Carolina Republicans said they outlawed Sunday voting because Sunday voters were âdisproportionately blackâ and âdisproportionately Democratic.â
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