Despite the heat, a teen at Trayvon Martin rally asks if he looks dangerous. #wbz pic.twitter.com/a7mf6Lcv2N — Mark Katic (@MarkKWBZ) July 20, 2013 From ThinkProgress: On Saturday, 100 cities held rallies organized by the National Action Network for Trayvon Martin, where large crowds demanded a federal civil rights investigation into…
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Curtis Flowers at his capital trial in 2004. The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed his first conviction after prosecutors used all of their peremptory strikes against blacks in the jury pool. From NYT: [T]he practice of excluding blacks and other minorities from Southern juries remains widespread and, according to defense lawyers…
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From Miami New Times: Tremaine McMillian, the 14-year-old boy who was forced the ground and head-locked by Miami-Dade police because, among other things, they claimed he was giving them “dehumanizing stares,” had his day in court this morning. McMillian was also facing two unrelated charges, but all charges have been…
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From Salon: Echoing what Joan Walsh called Mayor Bloomberg’s “ugly” defense of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice, police commissioner Ray Kelly asserted Wednesday night that African Americans are “understopped” by police. During an interview with ABC, the commissioner and the policing tactic’s greatest defender, said that “African Americans are being understopped…
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A black woman has been charged and convicted of records tampering after falsifying her address so that her children could go to a better public school. She was initially charged with theft of $30,000 worth of public education. She spent 10 days in jail and an Ohio parole board has…
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