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Month: June 2021

The remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife are being removed from a Memphis park

Crews have started to remove the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Memphis park where a monument of him once stood. The decision to move their remains was decided last year after the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a non-profit organization of male descendants of Confederate veterans, agreed to drop

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Columbia vehicle stop race disparity drops slightly, police chief and critics say more work must be done

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Attorney General’s office released its annual traffic stop report on Tuesday, showing that the statewide disparity in traffic stops based on rates made a slight drop. According to the data from the Missouri Attorney General’s Annual report on traffic stops, black drivers in Missouri were pulled over 71.6% more than

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US Black-White inequality in 4 charts

The financial standing of Black and White Americans is anything but equal. When it comes to wealth and income, major disparities persist despite the years of economic prosperity that preceded the coronavirus pandemic. This long-standing racial divide has garnered renewed attention in the Biden administration, which has committed to improving equity as it guides the

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Boulder thrown at cruiser

Click here for updates on this story     NEW HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Authorities are looking for the person who threw a boulder at a New Hartford police cruiser over the weekend. It happened between 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday at the New Hartford Resident Trooper’s Office behind the town hall. State police said

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Louis Farrakhan Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. Personal Birth date: May 11, 1933 Birth place: The Bronx, New York Birth name: Louis Eugene Walcott Father: Percival Clark Mother: Sarah Mae (Manning) Clark Marriage: Khadijah Farrakhan, formerly Betsy (Ross) Walcott, (September 12, 1953-present) Children: Mustapha, Joshua Nasir, Abnar,

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Biden administration formally ends ‘remain in Mexico’ policy after suspending it earlier this year

The Biden administration formally ended the Trump-era policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico until their court dates in the United States, according to a memo issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Shortly after President Joe Biden took office, the Department of Homeland Security suspended new enrollments to the program formally known as Migrant

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Biden memorializes Tulsa victims on 100th anniversary: ‘This was not a riot. This was a massacre’

President Joe Biden on Tuesday used stark language as he mourned one of the worst acts of racial violence in US history, marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Biden outlined his administration’s new efforts to combat the country’s racial inequality during a speech in Tulsa, memorializing the hundreds of Black Americans who

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