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... a very progressive place. But since the killing of George Floyd in May, there have been increased signs of racial polarization here. This summer, a Black Lives Matter sign in one Berkshire town was defaced with hate speech. For Dorree Ndooki, it’s been a particularly upsetting time. Dorree Ndooki ...
... America to earn a doctorate and a co-founder of the NAACP. Great Barrington is DuBois’s birthplace. Another mural nearby celebrates and supports the Black Lives Matter movement. It may be surprising to find these markers of Black culture in a town where almost every face is white, but ...
... a black T-shirt with Taylor’s name in gold. Sterling K. Brown gave out the show’s final award for best drama in a Black Lives Matter shirt. A REFRESHING THANK-YOU Winners usually thank their spouses, their kids, their parents, and their agents — their therapists, not so much ...
... Vegas. An El Paso, Texas, man was accused of promoting hate speech, posting a video online with a racist epithet and making threatening comments to Black Lives Matter protesters while holding a military-style rifle at his feet. A Minnesota man was accused of helping burn down a police precinct ...
... British veterans.Protester: Who will take the knee for the veterans? Protesters: Shame on you! Shame on you! Protester: You will take the knee for Black Lives Matter, but you won't take the knee for veterans who have died. Protester: They have got Nobby! They have got Nobby! Malcolm ...
... the fires even drifted over New York. The city of Louisville, Kentucky, agreed today to pay $12 million dollars in a settlement with Breonna Taylor's mother. It came six months after police shot and killed Taylor in her apartment. Her death has helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement.
... is being accompanied by a repeating soundtrack entitled “8:46” and lasting that long. It's the original time prosecutors said it took for a Black man, George Floyd, to be killed by white police officers in a May slaying that has fueled the Black Lives Matter movement and protests ...
... are consequences to being bold and to calling people out and to stepping into the role of who you think you are. I think with Black Lives Matter and with COVID and also with this current administration, we're all kind of like, “Wait a minute, where do I actually ...
Earlier Saturday, many migrants held a mostly peaceful protest demanding to be allowed to leave the island, a gathering that also drew supporters with Black Lives Matter signs. “We need peace & freedom. Moria kills all lives,” read one. One scuffle with riot police broke out but was short-lived ...
Before the hearing, a few dozen protesters gathered in front of the courthouse, chanting "No justice, no peace." One carried a Black Lives Matter flag and wore a black helmet with swim goggles around the back of his head. By the time the hearing ended, a large, loud crowd had ...
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