African Americans
Athletes join growing movement for racial justice
December 18, 2014"This issue as I see it - police killings as a symptom of the systematic and historical devaluing of black lives - seemed too big to ignore."
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Ferguson protesters retrace steps of history and forge new ones
December 16, 2014They've built a new social and economic justice movement on the foundation left by those who struggled before them.
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With #ICantBreathe, new movement for justice inspires
December 15, 2014In response to the police murders of Brown and Garner and the failure of grand juries to return indictments, a new movement for justice has emerged.
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Marches against police killings sweep the nation
December 15, 2014Led by mothers, fathers, and widows of African American men killed by white police officers, 50,000 protesters marched up Pennsylvania Avenue.
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“I can’t breathe” march on Washington to protest police killings
December 9, 2014The storm will hit this week when eight mothers of unarmed Black men killed by police will testify Dec. 10 in a House hearing sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
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