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Black men and women from around the nation are gathering on the National Mall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March and call for policing reforms and changes in black communities.
Read More >By Priscilla Frank, Arts Writer, The Huffington Post On Wednesday, Sept. 16, students of the University of Buffalo were shocked to find “White Only” and “Black Only” signs hung…
Read More >Harris County’s top law enforcement officials hadn’t turned a white deputy’s death, allegedly at the hands of a black man, into yet another wedge between police and communities of color.
Read More >ABHM Head Griot Reggie Jackson is interviewed about the origins of the devaluation of black lives in America. His four-session series covers a 400-year history of the laws, court decisions, customs, pseudo-science, medicine, policing, and other practices that justify and support that attitude that black lives do not matter.
Read More >A rally is planned for Monday in the Dallas-area city of McKinney calling for the firing of the police officer seen in a viral video throwing a bathing suit-clad teenage girl to the ground and pointing his pistol at other youths at a pool party.
Read More >Civilian law enforcement will be prohibited from receiving certain military weapons—including tanklike vehicles, assault rifles and grenade launchers.
Read More >By: Ryan J. Reilly and Jennifer Bendery, huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON — Activists involved with the Ferguson, Missouri, protests followed their presidential meeting on Monday with words of caution: There’s a long fight ahead to…
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Four black geniuses – a social psychologist, an artist, a jazz composer and a poet receive $625,000, no-strings-attached, from the MacArthur Foundation.
Read More >By Charlotte Alfred, HuffingtonPost.com 1. Afghanistan’s first female police chief showed the world what courage looks like. Col. Jamila Bayaz was appointed to run security in the Kabul’s District 1…
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