(2023-02-16). Decades of Racial Bias Preceded College Board's AP Black History Course Changes. truthout.org For weeks, prominent scholars and educators, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kimberlé Crenshaw and David J. Johns, have called out the College Board for removing contemporary topics and scholarship in Black history from the new Advanced Placement (AP) African American History course being piloted across 60 U.S. schools. Some of these revisions — regarding topics like Black Lives Matter… |
(2023-02-16). Louisiana Cop Charged With Homicide After Neighbor's Complaint About Loud Music. newsone.com 
Source: screenshot / facebook | UPDATED: 3: 45 p.m. ET, Feb 16, 2023 | A Shreveport Officer Alexander Tyler was arrested on a charge of negligent homicide in the shooting death of 43-year-old Alonzo Bagley. | Tyler's bond was set at $25,000. | According to CNN, during Tyler's first appearance in court, Louisiana State Police investigators told the judge that footage from the officer's bodycam proves Bagley's h…
(2023-02-16). Death of unarmed North Carolina man under police restraint ruled a homicide; police would not release body camera footage to assist with autopsy. therealnews.com 
The death of an unarmed man
(2023-02-16). Decades of Racial Bias Preceded College Board's AP Black History Course Changes. truthout.org For weeks, prominent scholars and educators, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kimberlé Crenshaw and David J. Johns, have called out the College Board for removing contemporary topics and scholarship in Black history from the new Advanced Placement (AP) African American History course being piloted across 60 U.S. schools. Some of these revisions — regarding topics like Black Lives Matter… |
(2023-02-16). Louisiana Cop Charged With Homicide After Neighbor's Complaint About Loud Music. newsone.com Source: screenshot / facebook | UPDATED: 3: 45 p.m. ET, Feb 16, 2023 | A Shreveport Officer Alexander Tyler was arrested on a charge of negligent homicide in the shooting death of 43-year-old Alonzo Bagley. | Tyler's bond was set at $25,000. | According to CNN, during Tyler's first appearance in court, Louisiana State Police investigators told the judge that footage from the officer's bodycam proves Bagley's h…
(2023-02-16). Death of unarmed North Carolina man under police restraint ruled a homicide; police would not release body camera footage to assist with autopsy. therealnews.com The death of an unarmed man
(2023-02-16). Another Black Man Freed By Judge After Crooked Murder Conviction 28 Years Ago. moguldom.com Lamar Johnson, 50, served nearly 28 years in prison in St. Louis, Missouri, for a murder he did not commit. On Feb. 14, he was finally freed. Circuit Judge David Mason declared Johnson innocent and overturned his conviction. Mason said there had to be "reliable evidence of actual innocence — evidence so reliable that it …
(2023-02-16). African American Resistance in the Rural South. globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-16). Peruvian organizations take legal action against Dina Boluarte over killings of protesters. peoplesdispatch.org A group of Peruvian human rights organizations and independent lawyers, on Wednesday, February 15, filed a legal complaint against Dina Boluarte, her ministers, and police chiefs over the deaths of six people killed during protests in the Apurímac region in December 2022. | The complaint states that during the first five days of demonstrations against Boluarte's assumption of power, which began on December 7, 2022, six people were killed, 83 were injured, and dozens were arrested and tortured at the hands of police officers. | According to a statement by the Legal Defense Institute—one of the organizations…
(2023-02-17). San Mateo County as Vulnerable to Police Violence as Memphis. indybay.org February 11 near downtown Menlo Park, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Protesters rallied for justice for Tyre Nichols and said the same police tactics are used here.
(2023-02-16). Asking the Oppressed to Be Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores History. independentmediainstitute.org In January 2023, after five police officers killed Tyre Nichols, President Joe Biden quickly issued a statement calling on protesters to stay nonviolent. "As Americans grieve, the Department of Justice conducts its investigation, and state authorities continue their work, I join Tyre's family in calling for peaceful protest," said Biden. "Outrage is understandable, but violence …