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... his reservations about certain provisions, he ultimately voted for the legislation, which included the three-strikes rule and has come to be seen in the Black Lives Matter era as a heavy-handed and discriminatory tool of the justice system. Troops BIDEN in Philadelphia, on U.S. troops in Afghanistan ...
"I think it's a testament and it's a representation of the fact that there are many movements that have been started by Black women. The Black Lives Matter movement was also started by Black women," Ayers told the Associated Press in her first joint interview with Burke ...
... defeated in 2010. Supporters of the change believe they have a better chance of prevailing this time, in part because of the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement and other campaigns for racial justice. “I think this time people will say ‘Yes,’” said Ray Rickman, a Black civic leader ...
... win in the middle of a pandemic inside this hermetically sealed NBA bubble. It's a win during a year of this national movement for Black Lives Matter. And it was a win for the Lakers without Kobe. How do you think all of those things came together in that ...
... women. But the Labor Department is raising questions about the specificity of commitments made by executives addressing racial injustice in response to the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that followed May's police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in June that the tech ...
Then, turning to the issue of racial justice, he conflated Black Lives Matter with rioting and looting in the streets, something the president does over and over again. The question became, did Breonna Taylor's family get justice? He said: I trust the just system, even though my heart breaks ...
... violence that occurred at the demonstrations and dismissed protesters as rioters, looters and thugs. The president’s rhetoric may have influenced the public. Support for Black Lives Matter, the social justice movement at the forefront of many current calls for police reform, has waned in the last few months, according ...
... dynamics in the play. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. What is it like to be playing Othello at this time of Black Lives Matter and reassessing and examining systemic racism? I imagine it must be a fascinating time to do this play. It absolutely is. This ...
... using racist rhetoric and favoring policies that disproportionately favor white people. For example, Trump has used the power of his office to crack down on Black Lives Matter protesters fighting for civil rights, calling them "terrorists" and warning that violent mobs of such protesters are invading largely white suburbs. While ...
... think the word “colonialism” evokes a long-ago, no-longer-relevant era, think again. Several leaders raised this year’s global protests inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States and renewed demands for reparations for the slave trade, calling them just one step in a still ...
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