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Voters dump a white supremacist and make a Black woman mayor
June 3, 2020In elections yesterday, Iowa’s Rep. Steve King was defeated, and Ferguson, Missouri made Ella Jones the city’s new mayor.
Read moreProtests against George Floyd’s murder roil Middle Tennessee
June 3, 2020Several thousand protesters—Black, white, Red, Brown—gathered in Nashville’s Legislative Plaza for the “I Will Breathe Rally."
Read morePeaceful protests in Indiana met with police violence
June 2, 2020On Saturday and Sunday, Black Lives Matter held peaceful protests in downtown Indianapolis in response to the extrajudicial murder of George Floyd, 46, in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as Dreasjon Reed, 21, in Indianapolis.
Read moreBiden and Obama: Floyd killing exposes systemic racism in U.S.
June 1, 2020That systemic racism expressed itself in the murder of Floyd when a heavy white cop, Derek Chauvin, kneed him in the neck for almost 10 minutes.
Read moreSmithfield’s Farmer John food factory and others hit with COVID-19 in L.A.
June 1, 2020On Memorial Day, the Los Angeles Times reported that 153 Farmer John employees now test positive for COVID-19.
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