2023-02-04: News Headlines

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Black Lives Matter-LA protest calls for "No cops in traffic stops!" fightbacknews.org Venice, CA — On January 29, over 200 people gathered on the intersection of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards in an action led by Black Lives Matter-LA demanding justice for Keenan Anderson, Tyre Nichols and many others whose lives were taken by police during traffic stops. | This protest comes days after the Memphis Police Department released gruesome body camera footage of five now-former officers beating 29-year-old Nichols, which led to his death days later. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of BLM and family members of Keenan Anderson were present and spoke about how much Keenan was loved and missed and demand…

Amy Goodman (2023-02-03). "Florida Is a Laboratory of Fascism": Scholars Discuss Fight Over Black History. truthout.org We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. |

Mark Gruenberg (2023-02-03). VP Harris: Tyre Nichols was murdered by police charged with keeping him safe. peoplesworld.org MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed and unresisting Memphis Black man beaten, clubbed and kicked to death by Memphis cops, died in January by "an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe," Vice President Kamala Harris says. With those words at Nichols's Memphis …

Editor (2023-02-03). New Advanced Placement African American Studies Course is Watered Down Version of Itself. scheerpost.com By Suneal Kolluri, University of California, Riverside / The Conversation On February 1, 2023— the first day of Black History Month — the College Board released the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of the African American studies course as lacking educational …

_____ (2023-02-03). 'So They Can See Us': Peru's National Protest Advances To Lima. popularresistance.org Deadly protests have gripped Peru since Congress expelled the country's first working-class president, Pedro Castillo. | Timeline of events since December 7, 2022: | Dec 7, 2022: The surprise winner of the July 2021 presidential election, Castillo comes under immediate attack from the right. On December 7 he attempts to dissolve Congress before it can debate a third impeachment motion against him and says he will form an emergency government and rule by decree. | Dec 7: Lawmakers vote overwhelmingly to remove him from office for "moral incapacity" to exercise power. | He is arrested for "rebellion". | Vice Presid…

Unicorn Riot (2023-02-03). Mississippi Police Arrest Protesters Seeking Transparency in Police Killing of Teenager. unicornriot.ninja

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Black Lives Matter-LA protest calls for "No cops in traffic stops!" fightbacknews.org Venice, CA — On January 29, over 200 people gathered on the intersection of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards in an action led by Black Lives Matter-LA demanding justice for Keenan Anderson, Tyre Nichols and many others whose lives were taken by police during traffic stops. | This protest comes days after the Memphis Police Department released gruesome body camera footage of five now-former officers beating 29-year-old Nichols, which led to his death days later. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of BLM and family members of Keenan Anderson were present and spoke about how much Keenan was loved and missed and demand…

Amy Goodman (2023-02-03). "Florida Is a Laboratory of Fascism": Scholars Discuss Fight Over Black History. truthout.org We host a roundtable with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. |

Mark Gruenberg (2023-02-03). VP Harris: Tyre Nichols was murdered by police charged with keeping him safe. peoplesworld.org MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed and unresisting Memphis Black man beaten, clubbed and kicked to death by Memphis cops, died in January by "an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe," Vice President Kamala Harris says. With those words at Nichols's Memphis …

Editor (2023-02-03). New Advanced Placement African American Studies Course is Watered Down Version of Itself. scheerpost.com By Suneal Kolluri, University of California, Riverside / The Conversation On February 1, 2023— the first day of Black History Month — the College Board released the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of the African American studies course as lacking educational …

_____ (2023-02-03). 'So They Can See Us': Peru's National Protest Advances To Lima. popularresistance.org Deadly protests have gripped Peru since Congress expelled the country's first working-class president, Pedro Castillo. | Timeline of events since December 7, 2022: | Dec 7, 2022: The surprise winner of the July 2021 presidential election, Castillo comes under immediate attack from the right. On December 7 he attempts to dissolve Congress before it can debate a third impeachment motion against him and says he will form an emergency government and rule by decree. | Dec 7: Lawmakers vote overwhelmingly to remove him from office for "moral incapacity" to exercise power. | He is arrested for "rebellion". | Vice Presid…

Unicorn Riot (2023-02-03). Mississippi Police Arrest Protesters Seeking Transparency in Police Killing of Teenager. unicornriot.ninja

ecns.cn (2023-02-03). Biden faces pressure on policing. ecns.cn When U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris was called to the pulpit at the funeral for Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old African American whose fatal beating by police shocked the nation and triggered urgent calls for reform, she said the White House would settle for nothing less than ambitious federal legislation to crack down on police brutality.

DLHS Staff (2023-02-03). Hosting 'The Daily Show,' D.L. Hughley Addresses Tyre Nichols Police Brutality. newsone.com

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Dallas demands justice for Tyre Nichols. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On January 28, over 50 people gathered in Civic Garden Park in Downtown Dallas to protest the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by police in Memphis, Tennessee. The rally was organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression-Dallas. | Local activist Olinka Green led a chant of the names of victims, including Tyre Nichols, Sandra Bland, Atatiana Jefferson, Santos Rodriguez and DeeDee Hall, an African American trans woman who was killed by police in Dallas in 2022. | Sydney Loving, co-chair of NAARPR Dallas, demanded justice for Tyre Nichols and emphasized the importance and need…

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Tampa students demand justice for victims of police crimes. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On the first day of Black History Month, February 1, students at the University of South Florida rallied in front of a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to demand justice for Tyre Nichols, Manny Páez Terán, and Keenan Anderson. The event was organized by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) as part of a National Day of Action Against Police Terror with SDS chapters across the country participating. | These actions were called in response to the violent police murders of three, all of which took place in the span of two weeks. On January 3, the Los Angeles Police Department tasered Keen…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-02-03). Exigen reforma policial en funeral de Tyre Nichols en Memphis. telesurtv.net Nichols fue golpeado después de que la policía lo detuviera por una supuesta infracción de tráfico el 7 de enero.

americanthinker (2023-02-03). Are the Memphis cops in the Tyre Nichols case really guilty as charged? americanthinker.com Applying Tennessee law to the video of Tyre Nichols' arrest suggests that the prosecutors may have gotten ahead of themselves.

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-02-03). Gangsta Killer Cops From Memphis Scorpion Unit Were Ques: Fraternity Kicks Them Out. moguldom.com The national leadership of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, whose members are affectionately called Ques, have revoked the memberships of three of the former Memphis police officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols. Tadarrius Bean, 24, was formerly of the Nu Mu Mu chapter, while Emmitt Martin III, 30, and Desmond Mills, Jr., 32, …

Derek Epp, Megan Dias, The University of Texas at Austin (2023-02-03). Is It Time To Rethink Police Traffic Stops? newsone.com The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols started after he was pulled over by cops. | The Nichols died in the hospital on Ja…

Bilal G. Morris (2023-02-03). Black Caucus Meets With White House On Police Reform In Wake Of Tyre Nichols Murder. newsone.com The White House sat down with the members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss police reform after the murder of Tyre Nichols.

Brandon Caldwell (2023-02-03). Officers Involved In Tyre Nichols' Death Kicked Out Of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. newsone.com Source: The Washington Post / Getty | Three former Memphis police officers with ties to the Omega Psi Phi fraternity had their membership revoked Tuesday, Jan. 31, weeks after they were indicted on second-degree murder charges in the death of Tyre Nichols. | MORE: ' In a statement issued on their website, Omega Psi Phi once again condemned the actions of the officers involved in Nichols' death and believed with the "utmost confiden…

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