Black Lives Matter
‘The envelope please’: Darnella Frazier deserved an Academy Award
April 27, 2021Darnella’s document, which reignited the Black Lives Matter uprising and America’s ongoing racial reckoning, could be entitled "10 Minutes That Shook the World."
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Reactions to Chauvin guilty verdict: Only a first step to justice
April 22, 2021Across the board there is agreement that an entire system of racism in America needs to be dismantled.
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Emmett Till was the first George Floyd
April 22, 2021A Black Chicago teen’s lynching in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement. A Black Minneapolis man’s killing by police last year propelled a worldwide call for racial justice and ending police brutality.
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AFL-CIO hails Chauvin verdict, but police unions still an issue for organized labor
April 21, 2021National Nurses United was among the toughest unions in denouncing racist police violence; it doesn’t have the same “police problem” that the national AFL-CIO does.
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Chauvin guilty, but police killed 64 more people during his trial
April 20, 2021“We are grateful that we got justice in this situation. Now we got hundreds more to go,” local leader Toshria Garraway told People's World.
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