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#SayHerName and see the beautifully captured portrait of Breonna Taylorat theSmithsonian on Friday. Taylor, whose 2020 death sparked nationwide protests, will have a portrait displayed on the fourth floor of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) as part of the museum’s new exhibition, 'Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.' In the portrait, Taylor […]
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Two Black women leaders, from prestigious Columbia University, have announced plans to lead a special Juneteenth celebration during their Freedom March NYC.
Lending their voices to the national call for social justice and police accountability, Chelsea Miller and Nialah Edari, will kick off their historic “Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Joy” event starting at the Brooklyn Museum at 12 PM.
Already raising more than $50, 000 for the Freedom March, these brilliant young activists have been marching for change throughout the streets of New York City demanding change during the revival of the Black Lives Matter movement following the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and all of the other Black men and women who have died at the hands of police and white violence.
“There’s a social media activist family who support and amplify each other’s messages,” Nialah Edari, told Forbes in speaking to the march for justice for Breonna Taylor’s killers.
“It’s not so much who the organizers are as much as it’s the message”
With special performances and guest appearances, “Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Joy” will be a day to remember as the city of New York comes together.
He has been accused of \"blindly\" firing into her apartment.
Breonna Taylor might be alive today if a judge had done her job with more scrutiny, a Louisville councilwoman argues.
According to reports, Judge Mary Shaw gave approval for five deadly no-knock warrants in 12 minutes in relation to the drug bust that Taylor had no involvement with, but which cost her life when police invaded her home.
Judge Mary Shaw signed the warrants for Taylor's apartment on Springfield Drive, a suspected drug house, two vacant homes nearby Taylor’s residence and a suspected stash house elsewhere in the city, according to court documents obtained by USA Today.
Louisville Councilwoman Barbara Sexton Smith helped propose and push legislation to ban \"no-knock\" warrants in Louisville.
\"I was very surprised to learn how easily and quickly the deadly 'no-knock' search warrants were signed by Judge Mary Shaw,\" Smith tells Inside Edition.
A portrait of the Former President of Sierra Leone – Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma was today, Tuesday June 30th 2020, tendered in evidence at the Freetown Magistrate Court No. 1 by the State in support of its libel allegations against one of the country’s former cabinet minister and aspirant for the presidency, Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden.
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Hon. Charles Francis Margai who is representing Dr. Blyden did not cross-examine the Exhibit Clerk but he objected to the tendering of the portrait and the other items on several grounds.
The first Prosecution witness, under the skillful cross-examination of the former Attorney-General Charles Margai, confessed that although the search warrants only authorized the Police to take away items believed to contain subversive materials, at the time they took the laptops and mobile phones, the police had no evidence of anything subversive in them.
The witness has already confessed to the court that even though Dr. Blyden requested that she should be present when they are examining her laptops and the phones, the Police deliberately chose to open the laptops and phones and tamper with them in the absence of Dr. Sylvia Blyden.
And it is with respect to this libel case that the portrait of the former president Ernest Bai Koroma, allegedly found hanging on a wall in Sylvia Blyden’s house by the Police, was today tendered as one of the offensive evidence presented by the prosecution to prove their case against Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden.
Prior to that, 24-year-old Robert Fuller was found hanging from a tree in the Los Angeles suburb of Palmdale, California on June 12 and 38-year-old Malcolm Harsch, another Black man, was found dead in similar circumstances on May 31.
RELATED: Man Found Hanging From A Tree In Houston Days After Similar Instances In L.A.
The bodies of Black people hanging from a tree is an image directly associated with the country’s racist history of lynchings.
The fact that both men were found dead near city buildings — Fuller, 24, near City Hall and Harsch, near the public library — has raised questions causing many to believe foul play is at hand.
“One community member claimed ownership of the ropes and stated that he intentionally placed the ropes on the tree limbs for exercise and games several months ago,” the Oakland Police Department said in a press release.
Memphis singer-songwriter Brandon Lewis depicts the painful institutional mistreatment of Black men in his new single, titled “Black Man.”
It shouldn’t matter about the color skin that I’m in,
Though the single was written and recorded before the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks, Lewis and Made In Memphis Records released it last week given the tenor of times.
Lewis also released a video for the track, shot outside the historic Clayborn Temple in Downtown Memphis.
Lewis is the young protege of Made in Memphis Entertainment (MIME) CEO and former Stax Records songwriter David Porter (“Soul Man,” “Hold On I’m Coming”), whose works received worldwide accolades during the 1960s and 1970s.
Porter was impressed with Lewis work ethic and talent, and gave him a shot as an artist for MIME.
One of the grand jurors responsible for the widely criticized indictment against a Louisville police officer involved inBreonna Taylor‘s killing has spoken out weeks after filing a motion to legally speak out about the controversial case. The “Anonymous Juror #1” suggested that Kentucky Attorney GeneralDaniel […]
The post ‘Truth Be Told’: Breonna Taylor Grand Juror Breaks Silence, Suggests Daniel ‘Sellout’ Cameron Lied appeared first on The New York Beacon.
So what better way to make her debut than to encourage all her new followers to stand up against racial injustice and demand that the officers who killed Breonna Taylor be fired and charged?
In the first tweets posted to her new Twitter account, @JLawrence_RepUs, the Oscar-winner called on Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to prosecute the police officers involved in the killing of Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot in her home three months ago.
In the months since Taylor’s killing, the officers who burst into her home in the middle of the night during a botched police raid have yet to be criminally charged and are still employed by the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Lawrence wrote that the longer it takes to bring charges against the officers, whom she mentioned by name in her post, “the more trust erodes.”
Lawrence’s demands in her post about Taylor’s death echo many of the sentiments Beyoncé shared in her own open letter to Cameron earlier this week.
Breonna Taylor was a 26 year old EMT who was shoot and killed inside her own home. On the night March 13, 2020 Breonna and her boyfriend were sleep when officers entered their home with a no-knock warrant. After hearing someone breaking in their house, Breonna’s boyfriend fired a single shot injuring an officer in []
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“MN Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence,” “Justice Squad,” and other groupings of families and anti-police violence organizations around the country have come together under the umbrella of “Take A Knee Nation.”
They are responding to Floyd’s call by inviting families who have experienced loss as a result of police violence to join a National Mothers March and weekend in Minneapolis/St.
The weekend will start on Saturday in Minneapolis with a series of workshops for the families and spouses and relatives who have lost a loved one to police violence.
Following the workshops will be a convening of the families who have lost loved ones to police violence, giving them the opportunity to support one another in their advocacy for justice for their loved ones, share one another’s grief, organize and unite as one voice.
Take A Knee Nation is well known for bringing the impact of police violence on families to the attention of the nation during its 2018 Take A Knee Conference on Super Bowl weekend in Minneapolis.
WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
on Thursday ordered the immediate removal of portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous House Speakers who served in the Confederacy.
“There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigo
try and grotesque racism of the Confederacy,” Pelosi said in a letter to the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
The four portraits are of former House Speakers Robert Hunter of Virginia, who served 1839-1841; Howell Cobb of Georgia, who served 1849-1851; James Orr of South Carolina, who served 1857-1859; and Charles Crisp of Georgia, who served 1891-1895.
But in a letter to the congressional committee with jurisdiction over the display of statues at the Capitol, she called for them to direct the Architect of the Capitol to “immediately” remove the 11 Confederate statues in the all HuffPost superfans!
