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Fighting Obdurate Hate: Exonerated Five Sue Little Man With Big Mouth

October 23, 2024

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With more righteous reason than most, the five men of color of the Exonerated Five have filed a defamation suit against Trump for still lying about their 1989 conviction.

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How Sheriffs Define Law and Order For Their Counties Depends a Lot On Their Views − and Most Are White Republican Men

by Mirya Holman

September 23, 2024

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A sheriffs car parked outside a prison in indiana

While there are exceptions, sheriffs have a long history of using their power to maintain a particular, unequal balance of power in society, often along racial and class lines.

Black Lives Matter: A Movement for Equality and Justice

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

September 2, 2024

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Black lives matter image collage by zany progressive

BLM is a movement that affirms the inherent value of Black lives. It is a response to a long history of discrimination that has disproportionately affected Black communities.

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From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

August 9, 2024

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These two instances of police violence highlight the cyclical nature of police violence against Black Americans – and the growing mistrust among Black Americans for local police.

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Georgia PSC to act on Sandersville Railroad owner’s request to condemn land held by Black owners

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

July 14, 2024

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A predominantly Black neighborhood in Hancock County has a second chance to stop a railroad company from forcibly taking land to build a rail line extension.

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Watch: San Diego Police Break Black Driver’s Window During Routine Traffic Stop

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

July 1, 2024

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Nicholas hopkins reacting to a police officer smashing his car window

During a routine traffic stop in California, police broke the car window of a Black man after they refused to respond to his question, “What is the probable cause?”

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Texas Woman Tries to Drown 3-year-old Palestinian Girl

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

June 24, 2024

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Texas woman who tried to drown a palestinian child

A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racist statements

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One Facebook Ad Promotes a For-Profit College; Another a State School. Which Ad Do Black Users See?

by Serena Zehlius, Editor

June 6, 2024

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Facebook’s advertising algorithm disproportionately targets Black users with ads for for-profit colleges, according to new paper by a team of university researchers.

Like all major social media platforms, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, does not disclose exactly how or why its billions of users see certain posts and not others, including ads. In order to put Facebook’s black-box advertising system to the test, academics from Princeton and the University of Southern California

Researchers tested for bias in Facebook’s algorithm by purchasing ads promoting for-profit colleges and studying who saw them.

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