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For understandable reasons — remember the infamous Tuskegee experiments? — African Americans harbor suspicions about scientists and vaccines.
Rusten Sheskey for shooting Jacob Blake Jr. This decision upset many around the country and within the Blake family. "We expected it. We understood what was going to come when they called in [the] National Guard," Blake Jr.'s father, Jacob Blake Sr., said. "There was no point in the video that is articulable for an officer to say that he was under harm at that particular point...I think that's completely bogus and I think that is just a rationalization to try to show what is really, essentially, an intentional act," attorney B'Ivory LaMarr added. While county officials have opted not to fi...
Rally Outside Chicago Police Headquarters Supports Anjanette Young At Sunday's demonstration, local leaders and politicians called for full transparency into the wrongful raid on a Chicago social worker's home Published December 27, 2020 • Updated on December 27, 2020 at 6:21 pm NBCUniversal Media, LLC Dozens gathered outside Chicago Police Department headquarters Sunday in support of Anjanette Young, a social worker whose home was wrongfully raided by Chicago police officers in Feb. 2019. The raid came to light in recent days after a video was published, which showed a handc...
Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) A couple of years ago, I was in the office of Attorney Janice Mathis, Executive Director of the Rainbow Push in Atlanta and saw this quote on the wall. “I am but one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. What I can do. What I ought to do, with God helping me, I will do.” After reading it... [Read more...] Tags:
Last week we told you about a lawsuit to reinstate over 200k Georgia voters before the January 5th run-off, which had been purged from the voter rolls in 2019. And that the judge, and Obama pick, would decide on the case soon. Well now we have his decision: 11ALIVE – A federal judge on Wednesday denied a lawsuit seeking to restore 200,000 people to Georgia’s voter rolls ahead of the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs, though he acknowledged “there may be discrepancies” in the records relied on to cancel those registrations in December 2019. The suit had been brought by a coalition of groups that a...