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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 12 | History Defined

Atlanta’s Black community raises voice against ‘Cop City’ police base

Protesters ask ‘Mayor Andre Dickens – is this enough Black folks for you?’ in demonstration against $90m training center

The Guardian - US

Emmett Till's murder is remembered as one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement in this historical drama

After her son was murdered, Emmett Till's mother, Mamie, made a decision that would change the course of history and propel the civil rights movement forward.

ABC News

10 arrested after 200 students and parents enter massive brawl across school campus

The school campus became a 'war-zone' with multiple violent fights taking place simultaneously on Wednesday, and authorities are now working to determine the cause

Daily Mirror

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Atlanta hospital closure inquiry sought by Georgia Democrats

Democratic Georgia lawmakers, local officials and the NAACP are asking federal officials to investigate a health care system that closed hospitals in downtown Atlanta and a southern suburb

The Independent UK

Corporations are staying silent on voting rights protections

Corporations aren't weighing in on legislation to restore voting rights protections.

Fortune

Let’s give thanks to the "Dilbert" guy

In a single YouTube rant, Scott Adams put the lie to reverse racism

Salon

Murder charges dropped against Georgia sharecropper in historic court hearing

CARROLLTON, Ga. — On the afternoon of Jan. 30, 1950, Clarence Henderson sat in the witness box in a cavernous courtroom in Carrollton and pleaded for his life.

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Will Smith gives first awards acceptance speech since Oscars controversy

LOS ANGELES — Will Smith delivered his first acceptance speech since the 2022 Oscars after he received the Beacon Award on Wednesday at the African American Film Critics Association Awards.

Los Angeles Times

Harry and Meghan’s foundation honours civil rights activist

Nabiha Syed, CEO of The Markup, won the 2023 award for her work on race and technology.

The Independent UK

Brittney Griner urges the return of U.S. detainees abroad at NAACP Image Awards

In one of her first public appearances since her release from a Russian prison, Griner took the stage to thank everyone for their support and to remind the audience of those still detained abroad.

WEKU

Serena Williams to be honored at NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP announced Thursday that Williams will receive the Jackie Robinson Sports Award during the ceremony, which will air live Saturday on BET.

Chicago Sun-Times

Serena Williams to Receive Honor at NAACP Image Awards

Serena Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success and efforts to uplift the community at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend. The NAACP announced Thursday that Williams will receive the Jackie Robinson Sports award during the ceremony, which will air live Saturday on BET. The award recognizes…

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Serena Williams to receive honor at NAACP Image Awards

Serena Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success and efforts to uplift the community at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend

The Independent UK

Nevada officer filmed slamming high school student to the ground and kneeling on him as he recorded video

A school police officer was captured on cellphone video on 9 February slamming a high school student to the ground and pinning him underneath his knee outside a high school in the Las Vegas suburbs

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Nevada officer slams student recording police, kneels on him

A school police officer was captured on cellphone video on Feb. 9 slamming a high school student to the ground and pinning him underneath his knee outside a high school in the Las Vegas suburbs

The Independent UK

Missouri activists seek more wrongful conviction hearings

As racial justice activists in Missouri celebrate the overturned conviction of Lamar Johnson, they’re questioning why other inmates with credible innocence claims aren’t getting the chance to make their cases in court

The Independent UK

New Jersey groups fight power plants and wait for environmental justice law

Residents of largely minority areas in New Jersey are fighting three proposed gas-fired power plants as they wait for the state’s environmental law _ signed with great fanfare nearly three years ago _ to take full effect

The Independent UK

Autopsy: Death of ex-state NAACP president ruled a suicide

Autopsy results show that a former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound

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Joyce Brown became her own advocate for breast cancer treatment

Joyce Brown, Ph.D., has spent 40 years leading philanthropic and community organizations, earning a coveted Rosa Parks Award from her local NAACP chapter among other honors.

WEKU

As the Sierra Club reckons with its past, a new leader charts a more inclusive future

After a conflict and reckoning stemming from its controversial past, the Sierra Club had to look inward. Can Ben Jealous bring the organization into the future?

Tribune News Service

Judge removes public defender in Atlanta Public Schools cheating case

ATLANTA — After more than three years of appeals, a judge removed the public defender representing the remaining six defendants in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating case.

The Conversation

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies

The opening days of Black History Month 2023 have coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African American studies.

The Independent UK

Civil rights groups seek halt to Missouri execution

The president of the national NAACP is urging Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to halt the execution of Raheem Taylor, who is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for the deaths of his girlfriend and her three children

The Conversation

Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.”

The Independent UK

Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting responds to outrage over video played at GOP event in Kentucky

Diners inside a Kentucky restaurant said they were forced to hear ‘graphic’ video from an upstairs event where the guest of honour was one of three officers who fired into the woman’s home in 2020

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