[Black Women\Congress]
World Economic Forum: “122 Black, or multi-racial Black women have run in this year’s congressional elections, in America… Black women voters also had the highest participation rate of any group in both the 2012 and 2008 elections.”
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House Passes Bill to Study Racial Disparities facing Black Men, Boys
[Racial Disparities\Black Men]
Rep. Wilson: “The commission will review police brutality, gun violence, fatherhood, recruiting and training black male teachers, and even sneakers, which play an important role in the lives of Black boys.
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Black Theatre United Will Host “Our Voices” Virtual Town Hall
[Black Theatre United\Viola Davis]
Davis will host the town hall with Leader Stacey Abrams, Founder of Fair Fight and Fair Count and Dr. Jeanine Abrams McLean, Vice President of Fair Count, in a conversation titled “Our Voices. Our Votes. Our Time.”
Photo: Black Theatre United
“AfroResistance” Organization Announces Black Latina Girls and Women Fund
[AfroResistance]
The Black Latina Girls and Women Fund was created by AfroResistance, a Black Latina women-led organization in the service of Black Latinx women in the Americas.
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NBA Restart Approaches Amid COVID-19 and Racial Policing Crises
[NBA Restart]
CBS: “The NBA and the players have been outspoken in advocating for the movement toward social justice and the end of police brutality.”
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Preston Wilson: MLB Late in Speaking Out on Social Justice
[Preston Wilson]
Sports Illustrated: “Nine days after police officers in Minneapolis killed George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement overtook the headlines, Major League Baseball became the last major U.S. professional sports organization to speak out.”
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Law Company Proposes Legal Services During Interactions with Police
[By Your Side Legal Services]
BYSLS: “When BYSLS clients see the blue lights in their rear view mirror or they are stopped by a police officer on the street, they will activate the BYSLS application. The application will connect them immediately with a lawyer.”
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Florida Officers Report Cop After He Pulls Gun on Unarmed Black Man
[Sgt. Janak Amin]
“Sgt. Amin’s actions, the violation of public trust and the dishonoring of his oath to serve and protect, is despicable,” the sheriff said at a Friday news conference outside the agency’s Ybor City headquarters.
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NAN Announces “Get You Knee Off Our Necks” March on Washington
[“Get You Knee Off Our Neck” March on Washington]
Martin Luther King, III: “We are in the midst of the largest civil and human rights movement in history. Now is the time and this is the generation that can realize the dream my father spoke of 57 years ago.”
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Officers Who Murdered Breonna Taylor Thought She Was Alone
[Breonna Taylor]
AP: Mattingly said ahead of the raid officers were told Taylor’s ground floor apartment was a “soft target” and Taylor “should be there alone.”
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