The Department of Justice will not bring civil rights charges against six Baltimore police involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, the young black man whose death caused widespread violent protest in that city in 2015.
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Halle Berry Comments On Black Lives Matter Supporters Who Only “Talk The Talk” – Vibe
Halle Berry believes that if you’re all talk and no substance when it comes to making a difference, don’t whine when nothing gets done.
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Running While Black: Melanin and Movement Does Not a ‘Thug’ Make – The Root
Rule 1: If your skin comes within two dozen shades of looking blue in the moonlight, don’t run at night. Rule 2: If your schedule demands it, be careful.
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Family of Michael Brown Settles Lawsuit Against City of Ferguson – The New York Times
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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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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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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