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Blacks continue to push for nuclear disarmament
 The film “Oppenheimer†which opened in theaters Friday, shows J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bomb, struggling with his creation and later proclaiming that he had “blood on his hands.†This follows President Harry Truman ordering atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing more than 240,000 people.…
Read MoreGovernor Ron DeSantis wants to whitewash Black History as though it never existed
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, but the head of the NAACP denounced the move, saying that it should not eliminate slavery, Jim Crow laws, police brutality, and the problems many Blacks face every day, including, for example,…
Read MoreCook County State’s Attorney put 275 police officers on a do not call for court list
The Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said she has released the names of 275 Chicago, suburban, and state police officers that were placed on the “Do Not Call List†which means they should not be allowed to testify in court because of their past misconduct, including unjustly framing people who went to prison. The list…
Read MoreBlack police commissioner of Suffolk County solves 13-year-old cold case murders of sex workers
The arrest of Rex Heuermann, an architect, who has been charged with the murders of three women and possibly a fourth, is being credited to a new police chief who made finding the killer in a long-closed case a priority. Rodney Harrison, the new police commissioner of Suffolk County and the former chief of detective…
Read MoreRev. Jackson, who will step down as head of the Rainbow Push Coalition, names his successor
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who is mostly confined to a wheelchair because he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, announced that he is stepping down as founder and president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded in 1971. He also named his successor, Rev. Frederick Douglas Haynes, III, pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church of Dallas. The…
Read MoreJudge rules against survivors of the Tulsa Massacre
An Oklahoma judge rejected demands for reparations resulting from the 1920 Tulsa Massacre in which more than 300 Blacks were killed, and hundreds were left homeless following an attack led by Whites of the Greenwood Neighborhood, also known as Black Wall Street. The lawsuit was brought by a Black man and two Black Women over…
Read MoreAn oversight office is investigating sexual abuse allegations by Chicago police of a migrant woman temporarily living in a police station
The Chicago Office of Civilian Office Police Accountability (COPA) has launched an investigation of 10 district police officers who may have allegedly sexually abused a migrant woman living temporarily in the police station. Sexual misconduct investigators may involve criminal actions and require cooperation with CPD and require the cooperation of the CPD (Chicago Police Department)…
Read MoreMove to honor Emmett Till, his mother, and the funeral home where his body was held
Democratic Chicago Congressman Danny K. Davis, along with many others, has introduced legislation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley and Roberts Temple National Historic Site in Illinois. The legislation aims to honor Till, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and Roberts Temple Church of God, where Emmett Till was taken to before he was buried.…
Read MoreChicago Torture Justice raises money to open
The Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Foundation has $1.8 million from a Mellon Foundation Grant and a $1.25 million grant from the city to fully fund (Jon) Burge torture survivors memorial. The Chicago Torture Justice Center was born out of reparations for survivors of police torture. Under the command of Chicago Police Department (CPD) Commander Jon Burge,…
Read MoreBlack student arrests at Harvard are at a three-year high
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawing affirmative action, Harvard University police will have fewer opportunities to stop and arrest Black students. Harvard is considered the citadel of higher education, but mirrors most of the nation’s cities where police arrest many more Blacks than Whites. That Harvard’s police department is headed by an African American…
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