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Commentary: Reparations would acknowledge injustice

It’s widely understood that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. evolved significantly on the issue of reparations during his short lifetime. Toward the start of his career, he was a moralist in his thinking, rather than the radical economic thinker he later became. In 2018, I befriended Dr. King’s…

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New congressional maps dilute Black power, critics say

Civil rights activists and some lawmakers are concerned that new redistricting maps in three Southern states will dilute the voices of Black people

The Independent UK

Historians advise the president. The problem? The scholars were all white.

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

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Who gets to tell the story of a historic civil rights site?

A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt

The Independent UK

Civil rights leaders warn of threat from white supremacy

WASHINGTON — Civil rights leaders warned about the dangers white supremacy poses to the US following a meeting with President Joe Biden.

Tribune News Service

NC NAACP loses tax-exempt status; audit assessing misspending allegations

For decades, the public face of North Carolina’s NAACP has been an energetic organization unbending in its fight against injustice.

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Poignant detour to Bus Station for Bristol civil rights leader Roy Hackett's last journey

St Werburgh's, St Paul's and the city centre will come to a standstill for 'the giant' of Bristol's history

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Sheryl Lee Ralph put in the time and the work. Hollywood is finally taking notice

If you ask Sheryl Lee Ralph about the educators who played a pivotal role in her life, she'll begin listing them without hesitation: her dad, her mom, her auntie Carolyn and so on. Then she'll get to her kindergarten teacher, Miss Spencer. Her eyes light up as she disappears into…

Los Angeles Times

Duke volleyball player and dad say BYU didn’t act fast enough during racist incident

As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he…

Tribune News Service

Ram katha begins in Raj Bhawan amid objections

Five-day event will undermine secular values, say Rajasthan civil rights groups

The Hindu

Pregnant woman at risk of miscarriage is blocked entry to ER by police officers

The couple claims the police officer violated their civil rights

The Independent UK

‘We’re dwindling like the salmon’: the Indigenous nations fighting for water rights

In California’s Bay-Delta, civil rights are inextricable from water rights, a coalition says – and a way of life is on the line

The Guardian - US

Cost of living campaign march to follow Civil Rights route this Autumn

"There has been a shameful lack of political leadership when it comes to the cost of living crisis"

Belfast Live

Derek Chauvin to serve time in federal prison in Arizona for killing George Floyd

MINNEAPOLIS — Fired Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was taken by U.S. marshals from a state prison and is heading to a federal facility to serve his time for killing George Floyd more than two years ago, a Minnesota corrections spokesman said.

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New questions in death of teen shot by police officer responding to family call about suicidal online posts

The FBI and the US Attorney’s Office have been investigating the possibility of a civil rights violation with the officer involved shooting of 17-year-old John Albers in January 2018

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Chauvin taken from state prison, heading to federal facility to serve time for killing George Floyd

Bristol Post

Funeral details of Bristol civil rights activist Roy Hackett released

They will lay the Bristol Bus Boycott organiser to rest on 16 September

The Texas Tribune

“It’s a living hell”: Scorching heat in Texas prisons revives air-conditioning debate

Texas heat has killed prisoners and cost the state millions in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits. Prison rights advocates hope a budget surplus next year will finally push lawmakers to invest in air conditioning.

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2nd ex-prison guard convicted in inmate beating death

A former Illinois prison guard could face life in prison after a jury found him guilty of violating the civil rights of a 65-year-old inmate who died after correctional officers beat him in a lockup more than four years ago

WEKU

A new system to flag racist incidents and acts of hate is named after Emmett Till

The Emmett Till Alerts will be sent to Black elected officials across Maryland — along with national civil rights organizations, clergy members and other leaders.

The Guardian - US

Former detective pleads guilty to civil rights violations in Breonna Taylor case

Ex-Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett is first conviction in case of Black woman killed by police in her own home in Kentucky

WEKU

Federal civil rights probe begins into 3 officers seen beating a man on video

Arkansas State Police said the agency would investigate the use of force.

The Independent UK

Family sues Georgia sheriff over drug raid that killed woman

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff's deputies executed a drug warrant at her cousin's home have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the deadly raid violated the slain woman's civil rights

The Guardian - US

Alarm over Texas law forcing schools to display ‘In God We Trust’ signs

Civil rights advocates say it ‘imposes religion’ as new law requires public campuses to display donated items bearing that phrase

The Hindu

Bilkis Bano case | Past verdicts will hold Supreme Court in good stead to examine premature release of convicts

It was as recently as in April that the court had said that the State cannot exercise its remission powers arbitrarily

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