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Minneapolis Officer Charged in Fatal Car Crash Death of Leneal Frazier
Leneal Frazier was the uncle of Darnella Frazier, the teenager who captured George Floyd’s death at the hands of police on video in 2020.
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Mistrial Declared in Case of Kansas City Police Officers’ Wrongful Arrest of Black Teenager
Tyree Bell, who was 15 years old, spent three weeks in jail before police reviewed their dashcam footage and realized he wasn’t the suspect.
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A Black Man Was Profiled and Stopped by Police; Now a Vermont Town Has to Run Him $50,000
The Vermont Human Rights Commission determined that a white Chester police officer stopped Obadiah Jacobs because of his race.
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DOJ Finds Racism Running Rampant in Utah School District
The Justice Department concluded that the Davis School District failed to effectively respond to widespread racial discrimination and harassment in its schools.
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Prosecutors Rest Their Case in Trial Over Police Stun Gun Death of Eurie Martin
Witnesses recall the officers yelling at Martin while he was face down on the ground and tasing him repeatedly, sometimes for as long as two minutes at a time.
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Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Oklahoma Over Anti-Critical Race Theory Bill
The suit claims that the Oklahoma law passed by Gov. Kevin Stitt in May violates teachers’ free speech.
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4 Georgia Deputies Placed on Leave After Black Man Dies a Week After His Arrest
Jermaine Jones Jr. was taken to the hospital by officers after what they call a “brief struggle.” Jones spent one week in a coma and died on Oct. 18.
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10-Year-Old Black Girl Handcuffed and Arrested for ‘Offensive’ Drawing of Her School Bully
The ACLU claims the girl was handcuffed with excessive force in front of her classmates and officers wouldn’t let her speak to her mother.
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Henrietta Lacks, Whose Cells Were Taken and Used in Scientific Breakthroughs, Receives Posthumous Award
While Henrietta Lacks was being treated for cervical cancer, researchers took biopsies without her consent and created the first ‘immortal’ cell line.
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Civil Rights Activist and Historian Timuel Black Dies at 102
Black worked with many activists including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr., who would become a close confidante.
