The Justice Department releases files on the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The U.S. Justice Department recently released on July 21 files regarding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., despite some members of the King family opposing the release, though one family member supports it. The release contains 230,000 pages of documents and comes following President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 14176, said U.S. Attorney…

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Two Black men are released after long prison sentences 

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office reversed the convictions of Charles Collins and Brian Boles for the murder of 85-year-old James Reid in 1994 after they spent decades in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. Their convictions were based on lies told by detectives, withheld evidence, and police coercion. Boles spent 30 years in prison…

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Rodney Hinton Jr. stands up

Cincinnati cops crowded into a Black judge’s courtroom to see if Rodney Hinton Jr. would buckle. He didn’t. Just days earlier, Hinton Jr. deliberately ran over a Cincinnati cop directing traffic, a day after another cop shot and killed his son, Ryan Hinton,18.  The killer cop, whose name has not been released because of state…

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