Outside Detroit, Nick Cave’s “TM 13” memorializes the death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager who was fatally shot three years ago....
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Michael Slager, Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott In South Carolina, Indicted For Murder
A grand jury has indicted a former South Carolina police officer in the April shooting of an unarmed black man, the prosecutor announced on Monday....
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Grand Jury Indicts Six Officers In Freddie Gray Case
A grand jury has indicted six Baltimore officers on a range of charges after State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby presented her department’s investigation into the death of Freddie Gray....
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#SayHerName: Why We Should Declare That Black Women And Girls Matter, Too
Tanisha Anderson. Rekia Boyd. Miriam Carey. Michelle Cusseaux. Shelly Frey. Kayla Moore....
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Michael Brown Is Getting A Permanent Memorial In Ferguson
ST. LOUIS — Dozens of teddy bears that memorialized Michael Brown were removed from a site on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday afternoon. The memorial will be replaced by a permanent plaque...
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Newly Released Footage Shows Shackled Freddie Gray Placed In Police Van Head First
Additional footage of Freddie Gray’s arrest by the Baltimore Police has raised questions about the case and Gray’s state during the incident that took his life....
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No charges for St. Louis officer who killed 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A prosecutor says no charges will be filed against an off-duty white police officer who shot and killed a black 18-year-old in October....
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Ferguson in Three Movements
Click to view this article in its original format as it appeared in The Transformational Agenda Magazine The Spark That Ignited Ferguson Hundreds flooded into The Canfield Green Apartment Complex while Michael Brown’s body...
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Dorian Johnson, Witness To Michael Brown Shooting, Arrested A Day After Announcing Lawsuit Against Ferguson
Just a day after his lawyer announced he would sue the City of Ferguson, Mo. and former police officer Darren Wilson, Dorian Johnson, a key witness in the Michael Brown shooting, was arrested....
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In Baltimore’s Wake Our Resolve Is Stronger
By Urban Cusp on February 16, 2015 I shook my head as I read tweet after tweet demonizing the residents of Baltimore because I understood, as so many of us do, that the sadness...
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