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‘This Is Not Justice’: An Oregon Business Owner Reportedly Plotted with Police Officials to Retaliate Against a Black Employee, Five Years Later One of the Officers Is Charged

March 21, 2022
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An Oregon police sergeant is facing misconduct charges for his role in the wrongful arrest of a Black Man, but the victim and his attorneys say it is not enough. Reports show Michael Fesser’s former boss plotted with police officials to retaliate against him for complaining about racial harassment at work. Michael Fesser was arrested…

Mayans in Belize successfully protest visit from British royals

March 21, 2022
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Mayan community is against William and Kate’s support of conservation which displaces them from their native lands Indigenous Mayans in Belize preemptively protested Prince William and his wife Kate’s visit on March 18, forcing the cancellation of the stopover in the district known as the Maya Golden Landscape, in Central America, Breaking Belize News reported….

Loose wig doesn’t stop Tina Turner understudy in Broadway musical

March 21, 2022
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Ari Groover had a wardrobe malfunction in “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” but she didn’t skip a beat on center stage Saturday night. One of Broadway’s most famous phrases, “The show must go on,” was made way all too real for one unflappable Black actress this weekend. As reported by People, Ari Groover, who serves…

Celebrating Game-Changers For International Women’s Month

March 21, 2022
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Sponsored by Citi Bank International Women’s Day spotlights a number of amazing women across the globe who are doing profound work to uplift, impact and propel their communities forward. From philanthropists and doctors to tech innovators and policymakers, let’s commemorate the women who step out on the front lines and dare to do the unthinkable,…

Ex-Google employee alleges discrimination in new lawsuit against tech giant

March 21, 2022
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April Curley’s suit claims Google hires Blacks in lower-level positions, pays them less and denies them advancement opportunities. A new lawsuit is echoing previous claims that tech giant Google regularly discriminates against Black employees. The suit was filed on Friday, according to The New York Times, and it alleges that the company regularly practices bias…

‘Dat Baby Shleep Shleep’: Eve Shows Off Her Baby Boy, Fans Say He’s ‘Milk Drunk’

March 21, 2022
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Rapper and actress Eve took to Instagram on March 18 to update fans on how she is adjusting to her new role in life: motherhood. The 43-year-old welcomed her first child, a son named Wilde Cooper, with her husband Maximillion Cooper back in February. Eve shows off her sleeping newborn son Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander Somers Cooper….

Black Man Shot And Paralyzed By NJ Cops

March 21, 2022
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Source: Evan Lang / Getty Where are Black people safe from the police? Certainly not out in public where cops racially profile us and get trigger-happy if they feel even the slightest bit threatened. Atatiana Jefferson, Stephon Clark, Kathryn Johnston, and Breonna Tayor remind us that we’re not necessarily safe in our homes, relatives’ homes,…

Howard University Faculty Members Say They Have to Work Four Jobs, While the School’s President Makes $1.6M; Wage Strike Set for Next Week

March 21, 2022
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Members of Howard University’s faculty have threatened to go on strike next week over what they call unfair work conditions and low pay for non-tenured, full-time teaching faculty and adjunct professors. The educators were joined by their colleagues, students, and alumni during Wednesday, March 16, protest on campus. Howard University Faculty and others hold demonstration…

Minneapolis honors its first Black fire captain with street naming

March 21, 2022
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The new Cheatham Avenue was named in tribute to Captain John Cheatham nearly 100 years after the former slave’s outstanding service. Captain John Cheatham, the first Black man named fire chief in Minneapolis, will have a street named in his honor nearly 100 years after his exemplary service. The new Cheatham Avenue, which was previously…

For Black law students, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic Supreme Court nomination is personal

March 21, 2022
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EXCLUSIVE: More than 100 Black law students have gathered for ‘Have Her Back’ rallies in D.C. to support Brown Jackson, who is on the precipice of making U.S. history. More than 100 Black law students and public defenders have descended in Washington, D.C. this week to rally in support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as…