police brutality
Athletes join growing movement for racial justice
December 18, 2014"This issue as I see it - police killings as a symptom of the systematic and historical devaluing of black lives - seemed too big to ignore."
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Ferguson protesters retrace steps of history and forge new ones
December 16, 2014They've built a new social and economic justice movement on the foundation left by those who struggled before them.
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Marches against police killings sweep the nation
December 15, 2014Led by mothers, fathers, and widows of African American men killed by white police officers, 50,000 protesters marched up Pennsylvania Avenue.
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“I can’t breathe” march on Washington to protest police killings
December 9, 2014The storm will hit this week when eight mothers of unarmed Black men killed by police will testify Dec. 10 in a House hearing sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
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In Ferguson, a prosecutor manipulates the justice system to prevent indictment
December 8, 2014Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson never went to trial for killing Mike Brown, but he had one of the best attorneys anyone in his situation could have had.
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