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... legislative achievement, even while continuing to disagree over criminal justice policies. And he's ready to engage what he sees as a conservative backlash after George Floyd's murder and the Black Lives Matter movement. John Legend: There's been this strain in conservatism that has looked at this ...
... before federal oversight is removed, a process that often takes many years at a cost of millions of dollars. Terrence Floyd, a younger brother of George Floyd, praised the Justice Department for its review. “That’s how you solve and stop what’s going on with law enforcement,” said Floyd ...
... expecting in my lifetime, let alone my grandfather's. Stephanie Sy: The one-acre property in Altadena was transferred last year by a Jewish landowner whose own family faced displacement and oppression. Johnson said the protests that erupted after the police killing of George Floyd raised the nation's consciousness.
... students face backlash In Harmony’s freshman-year English class, a boy started playing with his mask and joked, “I can’t breathe, just like George Floyd,” Harmony recalled. “I was really upset. And I called him out on it. And I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? Someone died ...
... Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members. The change was part of a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations that had been named after confederate soldiers. WATCH: Army base renamed after Black veterans as military plans to ...
After the murder of George Floyd, school districts across the country reconsidered the presence of police in public schools. But with the threat of school shootings three years later, many are opting to reverse course, bringing police and school resource officers back on campus. Stephanie Sy discussed that with Franci ...
Kaomi Lee: But, in 2019, the company reached out to Adrienne Benjamin, who became a reconciliation adviser. Sherer says the company's culture and Midwestern nature was to stay quiet. But George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis. And, with Benjamin's help, Minnetonka started to change. Jori Miller Sherer: If ...
Thursday on the NewsHour, migrants at the southern border find themselves stuck in limbo amid a shift in United States immigration policies. Debt ceiling negotiations see progress on spending cuts but a deal to avoid a national default remains elusive. Plus, three years after the murder of George Floyd, the ...
... of Staff, he continues to represent the Black experience vocally in the way that we saw him doing that poignant video after the death of George Floyd? Does he continue to address systemic racism in the military? Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks: He can do so from a very important position ...
... were kept secret from the public in New York state. That was until the year 2020, when lawmakers enacted police reforms in the wake of George Floyd's murder. The Marshall Project reviewed those records and found hundreds of incidents of abuse and mistreatment and a widespread failure to hold ...
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