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Michael Brown’s death sparked a decade of reckoning on race

Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County town located within one mile of Ferguson, Missouri, where 10 years ago, a Black teenager’s fatal shooting by a white police officer changed Reed’s life and shook awake a nation. “It was like […]

todayAugust 18, 2024

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Advocates remain hopeful about justice for Michael Brown and police accountability

The 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown sparked a movement that saw the emergence of Black Lives Matter and a national call for police accountability. However, for those seeking justice for Brown’s death and the end of racial police violence, the fight continues 10 years later. Although Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., were awarded $1.5 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit settlement from the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice and St. […]

todayAugust 10, 2024

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Watch: Michael Cohen’s lawyer says Trump should serve this much time in prison

Lanny Davis, the former attorney for Michael Cohen, who joins theGrio’s “The Hill with April Ryan” this week, is calling for jail time for the now-convicted felon and former President Donald Trump. Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, was sentenced to three years in prison. Davis, Cohen’s ex-attorney, suggested Trump should receive the same three-year prison sentence Cohen received in 2018, if not more. Cohen pleaded guilty to criminal tax evasion and campaign finance violations in connection to his work for Trump. Republicans, […]

todayJune 10, 2024 2

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Michael Leach, White House’s top diversity officer, leaving Biden administration

NEW YORK (AP) — The White House’s top diversity officer and first ever aide in the role is leaving the Biden administration after three years in his position. Michael Leach, a special assistant to President Joe Biden and the chief diversity and inclusion officer for the White House, departs after serving as a top aide to the Democrat since his 2020 presidential campaign, the White House said on Thursday. Both in office and during the campaign, Leach, who’s Black, spearheaded […]

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