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Washington Correspondent Loud cheers erupted from the crowds that had gathered outside Hennepin County Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis when the verdict was announced. "Say his name - George Floyd!" they chanted as armed National Guard troops looked on from behind barbed wire fences and concrete barricades. People hugged, cried and danced. Passing drivers beeped their horns. The sounds of celebration drowned out the noises of nearby sirens and the helicopters overhead. The smell of cooking filled the air as a group of men prepared burgers and hotdogs on a large barbeque. Music played from s...

Community activist DeVante Hill arrested on diversion charge stemming from 2016 arrest Activist arrested for probation violation By WMC Action News 5 Staff | March 31, 2021 at 4:17 PM CDT - Updated April 1 at 2:45 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Memphis pastor and activist is behind bars in connection to a diversion charge stemming from an arrest over four years ago. DeVante Hill was arrested Wednesday morning on an outstanding warrant issued March 4. Two weeks later, on March 18, he was helping Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland pick the city’s next top cop. ”There were two violations. One fo...

An activist says a Black Lives Matter crosswalk is a "step in the right direction." Author: Rebecca Butcher Updated: 10:12 PM CST January 14, 2021 MEMPHIS, Tennessee — The Black Lives Matter movement has left its mark nationwide and here in Memphis.  A project to paint a BLM crosswalk was approved this week by the city.   “I think that it’s important Memphis lean culturally into its blackness and lean into what it means to black and in Memphis,” said activist Devante Hill.  Hill led several protests last summer in the Bluff City following the deaths ...

Jan 10, 2021 FILE - This Wednesday evening, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo shows the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) This past week, Americans watched as the hallowed chambers of the Capitol were overrun and defiled, not by some foreign enemy of democracy but a mob of their fellow citizens. And then they tried to make sense of it. In letters to the editor and posts on social media, they raised their voices. In Iowa, a lifelong Republican mourned the shredding of the country’s political norms. In Tennessee, a pastor and activist, alarmed by the rioters’ behavior, wondered...

In letters to the editor and posts on social media, from throughout the country, they raised their voices.