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For too long, law enforcement and the criminal justice system at large has racially profiled, arrested, convicted, and sentenced African Americans more harshly than the rest of America. The worldwide protest is making a bold and collective statement that the 'Black Lives Matter' and it is time for change. Protesting is a key step to problem resolution. Addressing the problem where it stands is also an important step. Then there comes change. Whether it is a national legislative change, a local...
NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, 32, hasn't played in the NFL since the 2016 season. He was blackballed by the NFL after silently protesting police brutality by silently taking a knee on the sidelines during the national anthem at the start of NFL games. Kaepernick became a free agent after the 2017 season but was not signed. In November 2017, he filed a grievance against the owners of the NFL and accused them of colluding against him. In Feb. 2019, Kaepernick withdrew the grievance after...
The White Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, who is captured on video participating in the death of George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling the weight of his body on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes, had his 3rd degree murder charge upgraded to second degree murder by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Three officers, two that restrained him by holding him down and applying fatal pressure to his lungs and another who stood guard to block anyone from helping Floyd, were charged...
Though Carter declared June Black Music Month with the event in 1979, and black music institutions celebrated every June thereafter, Black Music Month didn't become an official observation until 2000. Dyana Williams discovered in the late '90s that President Carter didn't issue an official decree, so she worked with her local congresswoman to draft House Resolution 509, better known as The African-American Music Bill. In its official form, the bill - signed by former president Bill Clinton -...
Juneteenth (short for "June Nineteenth") is a holiday commemorating this day, which marked the effective end of slavery in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation On June 19, 1865-two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation-some 1,800 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia,...
