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The Exonerated Five member, Dr. Yusef Salaam, will run for the Harlem state Senate seat
Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam, who is planning to run for office in New York, has announced his intentions. The New York Daily News reports that Salaam is in an extremely competitive race for
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The new voting restrictions signed by Gov. Greg Abbott take effect in Texas
The Texas governor signed into law an election reform bill on Tuesday (Sept. 7), a measure that Democrats have opposed for months. Republicans like the governor and other conservatives in Texas
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The district attorney is being sued for wrongful prosecution by a black man
The Black man Curtis Flowers has sued the district attorney who convicted him six times for 23 years of wrongfully imprisoning him. The complaint was filed on Friday (Sept. 3) and included Montgomery
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In the death of Elijah McClain, 3 police officers and 2 paramedics have been indicted
As of Wednesday (Sept. 1), a grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics for the death of Elijah McClain. In Aurora, Colorado, in 2019, a Black 23-year-old was found dead in a
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Black reporter attacked live on TV; arrest warrant issued for attacker
An arrest warrant was issued by Mississippi police for an Ohio man who attacked a Black reporter during a live newstaping in the state. Shaquille Brewster, of MSNBC News, was physically attacked by Benjamin Eugene Dagley
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Deputy charged with assaulting a Black woman while she walked her dog
After a black woman was attacked by a Chicago police officer who was walking her dog, the officer was placed on administrative duties.
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Abortion is prohibited at six weeks in Texas
Also under the law, users can also sue abortion providers or persons who assist women in getting abortions in violation of the ban, no matter where they live in the country
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7 black men who were executed for rape in 1951 have been pardoned posthumously
The Virginia Governor Ralph Northam honored the memory of seven men who were executed for the rape of a white woman back in 1951 by pardoning them posthumously.
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