A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement in the lawsuit brought by the family of Michael Brown against the police officer who fatally shot him in Ferguson, Mo., ending the legal chapter of a case that sparked national outrage over the police’s treatment of black people.
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Black Women in America Really Do Work Harder for Less, New Report Shows – Slate
It’s a familiar adage that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts—and that black women, oppressed by the intersecting forces of sexism and racism, have to struggle even more.
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This Mother’s Day, Black Lives Matter Activists Will Give More Than 30 Women Their Freedom – The Nation
These women are in jail not because they’ve been convicted of a crime but because they can’t pay to get back to their lives as they await trial.
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Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’ – The Guardian
Twenty-five years after the LA riots, Spike Lee has made a film about Rodney King, whose beating by the police triggered the uprising. Does he think things have improved in the US? ‘Race is always going to be an issue in this country’
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Ferguson, Missouri, Declines to Elect First Black Mayor – NBC News
Voters in Ferguson, Missouri, re-elected Mayor James Knowles III on Tuesday in the first election since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.
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Black Lives Matter groups joining forces with wage activists – The Philadelphia Tribune
A cluster of Black Lives Matter groups and the organization leading the push for a $15-an-hour wage are joining forces to combine the struggle for racial justice with the fight for economic equality, just as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to do in the last year of his life.
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True/False Film Fest: Ferguson film ‘Whose Streets?,’ from the people who filled them – Los Angeles Times
Sometimes a subject, an audience and a place converge in just the right way. And a combustible way.
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This Video of Black Parents Explaining How To Handle the Police to Their Kids Will Break Your Heart – Okay Africa
“I’m Ariel Sky Williams. I’m 8 years old. I’m unarmed and I have nothing that will hurt you.”
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Local educators kick off Black Lives Matter week – The Philadelphia Tribune
Some educators in the School District of Philadelphia wore T-shirts and donned pens to support the kick-off Monday of the Black Lives Matter Week of Action.
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Black Businesses Matter, Too: BLM Introduces Website to Connect Black Consumers with Nearby Enterprises – Atlanta Black Star
In its ongoing efforts to improve Black lives nationwide, social justice organization Black Lives Matter has now made it that much easier for consumers to connect with nearby Black-owned businesses.
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