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The Enemy Within

Over a decade after the FBI first issued its warning, American police departments remain an attractive option for white supremacists seeking work.

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Who Benefits From Watching Black Trauma on Screen?

What will it take for Black girls to exist as children on and off screen, without making them into adults to justify violence against them?

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Special News Series: Rising Up for Justice! – Floyd verdict gives hope, if only fleeting, to Black America

African-Americans across the United States rejoiced over the results of the Dereck Chauvin, but the reformation of policing is still needed.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Derek Chauvin Verdict Brings a Rare Rebuke of Police Misconduct

A jury deliberated for just over 10 hours before pronouncing Mr. Chauvin guilty on all three charges: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

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Milwaukee helping shape a national conversation on racism as a public health crisis

Inequality can be deadly.

Milwaukee was among the first counties to reveal how deadly when the coronavirus pandemic struck just over a year ago. By tracking and publicly sharing demographic data, officials here quickly recognized what soon became a troubling national trend: COVID-19 was devastating Black and Latino communities. Milwaukee County was one of the very first in the country to explicitly track this data based on race.The data has helped determine where resources would be directed, including when it came to testing and vaccinations.

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After Another Police Shooting, Biden Urges Calm. Activists Want Answers.

President BIden had promised during his campaign trail to tackle policing in his first 100 days. With the killing of Daunte Wright, the issue has come to the forefront.

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Which Direction Now, White Folks?

The Biden administration has the task of uniting a culturally divided America, half of which has no interest in unity.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – ‘We’re not stopping’: Community organizers are focusing on local policy changes for 2021

Terry Thompson and protesters take a kneww

Entering into the new year of 2021 Wisconsin’s community organizers have vowed to keep pushing for meaningful, local change.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – BLM helped shape the 2020 election. The movement now has its eyes on Georgia.

Founder Patrisse Cullors on the Senate runoffs, the impact of the protests, and what the movement wants from the Biden administration.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – After Biden win, Black activists demand reparations for slavery, police reform

Mary Hooks, Atlanta BLM leader

After a tumultuous election year victory, one that both gave rise to a new civil rights movement in response to the death of George Floyd and saw Black Americans suffer disproportionately from the COVID-19 pandemic and staggeringly high unemployment, Black Lives Matter activists are asking the new administration to make Black matters paramount.

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