[Congressional Black Caucus]
Congressional Tri-Caucus: “Although President Trump called the most recent shootings ‘acts of domestic terrorism,’ the Tri-Caucus cannot ignore the role President Trump’s rhetoric has played in fanning the flames of division and racism. Since taking office, the President has emboldened white supremacy through his hateful rhetoric and constant attacks on minority communities.”
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NY ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES TAKES FIGHT FOR GUN SAFETY TO U.S. SUPREME COURT
[Supreme Court]
Attorney General James: “While President Trump, his allies in Congress, and the NRA do absolutely nothing, our schools, our workplaces, and our places of worship have become killing fields — due in part to the free-flowing movement of guns — but New York is standing up and fighting back.”
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FBI DESCENDS ON EPSTEIN’S “PEDOPHILE ISLAND” HOUSE OF HORRORS IN U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
[Jeffrey Epstein]
The FBI descended Monday on Jeffrey Epstein’s “Pedophile Island,” in U.S. Virgin Islands, where he allegedly committed some of his worst atrocities…
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NY ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES: WE WILL DEFEND CONSTITUTION AND CENSUS SINCE TRUMP WON’T
[Census\Immigration]
Attorney General James: “The United States Constitution is crystal clear that every person residing in this country at the time of the decennial census — regardless of legal status — must be counted, and no matter what President Trump says, or Alabama does, that fact will never change.
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ON ANNIVERSARY OF MICHAEL BROWN’S DEATH CONSERVATIVES SEND FERGUSON OFFICIALS “BLUEPRINT” ACTION PLAN FOR BLACK AMERICA
[Black Conservative News]
Project 21’s Blueprint: contains 57 policy recommendations over 10 key areas that Black conservatives say are designed to remove barriers that keep Black communities from reaching their full potential and ensure that access to the American dream is attainable for everyone.”
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TRUMP’S UNITED STATES OF HATE INCITES RISING WHITE BACKLASH
[Guest Editorial\Dr. Keith Magee]
Dr. Magee: “The preaching of ‘whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also’, is no longer applicable in these times. There’s no longer the tolerance to mount a non-violence movement or foot soldiers in protest when the evidence is clear that this venom embodied in these White-skin individuals is filled with intentional rage, injustice, and violence, against everyone that isn’t a pure American of Anglo-Saxon descent.”
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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY STUDY: BLACK MEN NEARLY THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY POLICE
[Police Brutality Study]
Professor Frank Edwards: “The inequality is not surprising. All you have to do is turn on the news to see that people of color are at a much greater risk of police-related harm. What we lack in this country are the solid estimates of police-related deaths because there is no official database where this information is stored.”
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DAYTON MASSACRE TAKES LIFE OF FAMILY MEMBER RELATED TO JOURNALIST GREG PALAST’S ASSISTANT PRODUCER
[Dayton Massacre]
Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Greg Palast has announced that his assistant producer, Jevin Lamar, lost his cousin, Thomas “Tee Jay” McNichols in the Dayton Massacre.
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FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA DENOUNCES RACIST RHETORIC AND INACTION IN WAKE OF TEXAS AND OHIO MASS MURDERS
[President Barack Obama]
President Barack Obama: “No other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shooting that we see in the United States. No other developed nation tolerates the level of gun violence that we do.”
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TEXAS AND OHIO SHOOTINGS: TRUMP KOWTOWS TO NRA AS GUN VIOLENCE TEARS NATION APART—SAYS CUOMO
[Mass Shootings]
New York Governor Cuomo on mass shootings: “This insanity must stop and it must stop now. Those who are unwilling to do anything about it are complicit. I am sick of the excuses. I don’t want to hear ‘we can’t’ — because we know we can, and you just don’t.”
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