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Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) A 23-year-old brotha in a New York City suburb just wanted to clock into work and earn a living. Instead, he was greeted with racial harassment and, most recently, a noose hanging from his workspace. Advertisement The incident happened on April 20 at Cooper Power & Lighting Corp in Farmingdale, N.Y., in Suffolk County, Long Island. Kyrin Taylor has been working at the local business since December. The noose was hanging clear as day—and, no, you cannot mistake it for anything other than a noose, in case anyone wants to explain it away as an accident. Feari...

Alerts Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon takes questions during a press conference about the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright at the Brooklyn Center police headquarters Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images) In what feels like a horrific sense of déjà vu, there has been growing unrest in Minnesota after an unarmed Black man was shot and killed by police over the weekend. During a heated press conference, the chief of the Brooklyn Center Police Department released body camera footage of the incident. Advertisement Police shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop...

Alerts Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, becomes emotional as he testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over court Monday, April 12, 2021 Image: Court TV-Pool (AP) Day 11 of Derek Chauvin’s trial saw a cardiologist push back against the idea a heart attack caused George Floyd’s death; George Floyd’s brother gave a moving “spark-of-life” testimony, and another use of force expert explained how the force used on Floyd was not within reason. Advertisement The police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in nearby Brooklyn Center on Sunday cast yet another shad...