2024-02-06: News Headlines

albawaba (2024-02-05). Jay-Z pulls a Kanye West at 2024 Grammys. albawaba.com

Meg O'Connor, Scheer Post. (2024-02-06). Here's How Non-Police Crisis Response Programs Have Been Working. popularresistance.org Over the past three years, tens of thousands of people in crisis have been met with behavioral health specialists and social workers instead of police officers. Interactions like these are taking place across the country more often today compared to previous years. While unarmed crisis responders have existed for decades, public outrage over the 2020 police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daniel Prude, and many others prompted cities to create new ways to respond to people in crisis. | Police are often called to respond to situations involving people experiencing mental health crises—with disastro…

Staff (2024-02-05). Statement against police repression of the Palestine movement in the Netherlands. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the arrest of Palestinian activists at the The Hague Central Station sit-in on 1 February 2023 by the Dutch police. With the excuse that it is "forbidden to use a megaphone," an activist leading chants during the sit-in was arrested by force. Multiple protestors were punched and attacked by …

Bilal G. Morris (2024-02-05). Celebrating Trayvon Martin: How His Legacy Continues To Thrive. newsone.com Source: Jason Armond / Getty | Trayvon Martin would have been celebrating his 29th birthday this week and his passing still resonates with so many Trayvon Martin never asked to be the face of a movement; he never asked to be a martyr. But, his untimely death has had a lasting impact on our discussions about systemic racism and gun violence. Scholarships were created in his name, laws were scrutinized in his honor and documentaries were created to tell his story. Trayvon Martin's legacy still lives on through the many who work hard to keep his n…

Anand Naidoo (2024-02-06). The Heat: Black History Month. america.cgtn.com Historian and author Carter G. Woodson founded Black History Month in 1926 to celebrate the achievements of African Americans. It was also meant to educate Americans about the suffering of slaves to highlight the fight for civil liberties and the successful contributions of Black people as part of the fabric of American history. | Nearly 100 years later, troubling questions remain about racial inequality, police brutality and what critics call the "whitewashing of the Black narrative" in the United States. | Joining the discussion: |

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