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Leave it to 15-time Grammy Award-winning artist Alicia Keys to use her star power for good. The singer and songwriter just teamed up with Amazon Home to give a chic home makeover to a Los Angeles-based teacher, Susanna. This marks Amazon Home's second Hometown Hero project; last year Ciara and Russell Wilson honored a registered nurse in Seattle. Susanna, this year’s Amazon Hometown Hero. Amazon Home Susanna has been a teacher at Van Nuys High School for nearly a decade, and unfortunately, during the pandemic, she lost her godfather, two uncles, brother and mother over the course of six m...

USA TODAY An attorney representing the family of Ronald Greene, a Black man who died in Louisiana police custody, called the release of body camera footage two years after Greene's death a "game changer." "The public now sees why we've been saying something is wrong," Ron Haley told USA TODAY. "They see the inhumanity, the brutality and the reckless indifference of Ronnie's life." Family members, attorneys, activists and civil rights organizations will rally Thursday on the Louisiana Capitol steps to call for the arrest of the officers involved in Greene's death. Representatives from the A...

Tamika Mallory speaks about what has changed in the year since George Floyd was killed and what still needs to.

“We’ll keep everything going until they give me some answers,” Tamir Rice’s mother said this week.

Tamika Mallory On The Continued Fight For Equality In America: ‘This Is A Marathon Movement, Not A Sprint’ Essence 2 hrs ago This book excerpt originally appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of ESSENCE magazine, available on newsstands now. So many people were moved to do something in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Protesters activated in droves, feeling like enough is enough—but we surpassed the threshold of injustice a long time ago. We have felt the pain of inequality for centuries. We cannot endure any more. Human life should not have to be taken for pe...