racism
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PublishedMay 23, 2021
George Floyd killing prompts some states to limit or ban chokeholds
At least 17 states have prohibited or severely limited the use of chokeholds and neck restraints by police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.
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PublishedMay 23, 2021
Insight: 100 years of immigration mistakes
A century-old law, inspired by discredited pseudoscience, has created President Biden’s border problems.
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PublishedMay 22, 2021
Maine Voices: What ‘Uncle Tom’ means to Sen. Scott
Progressives who call the senator ‘Uncle Tim’ should read a celebrated play in which the slur illustrates the high stakes of putting a Black man down.
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PublishedMay 21, 2021
Long-withheld video of fatal arrest shows shackled Black man ordered facedown
Body-camera video shows Louisiana state troopers ordering Ronald Greene to keep lying facedown – a tactic that may have hindered his breathing – and an autopsy cited restraint and ‘inflicted head injury’ as factors in his death.
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PublishedMay 18, 2021
Congress passes bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bipartisan denunciation of the spate of brutal attacks that have proliferated during coronavirus pandemic.
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PublishedMay 11, 2021
Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in Atlanta spa shootings
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also filed notice that she intends to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against Robert Aaron Long, who is white.
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PublishedMay 9, 2021
Maine Voices: Before you report my young Black children to police, let’s talk
The lives of young people of color are at stake because adults are afraid to have conversations with each other.
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PublishedMay 5, 2021
Leonard Pitts: Why can’t we have nice things? Actually, we could.
Resort-style swimming pools are just one of the public amenities that white people have done without rather than share them with Black people.
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PublishedMay 4, 2021
Anti-Asian hate crimes skyrocket in cities around the U.S.
A study by the Center for the Study of Hate in Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino found a 164% increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year.
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PublishedMay 2, 2021
Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
At least 16 states have contemplated measures to release such records, or summaries of them, publicly. Another eight have discussed making the records accessible to other law enforcement agencies.
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