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News Articles: black lives matter

Salomé Chimuku and Cameron Whitten co-founded the Black Resilience Fund in Portland, Ore. They've raised more than $2 million in the last year to help Black Portlanders.

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  • National

Portland Activists Built Resilience Fund Inspired By Racial Justice Protests

During last spring's racial justice protests, a young man in Portland, Ore., realized that people wanted to do something beyond march. So, he created the Black Resilience Fund to offer small grants.

April 03, 2021
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Distant cousins Cody (left) and Andrew meet in Washington, D.C. Cody is a member of a Three Percenter-affiliated militia group, and Andrew is an organizer with Black Lives Matter activists. The two connected on Facebook and have gotten to know each other while researching their ancestry.

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  • National

One's Antifa. One's In A Militia. How An Ancestry Match Led To An Unlikely Bond

Two distant cousins connect online, only to learn that one is a militant leftist and the other is in a right-wing militia. Their story shows the complexities of a timely question: Who's an extremist?

March 25, 2021
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By:
  • Hannah Allam
Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., waits for Vice President Mike Pence to arrive for her swearing-in reenactment for the cameras in the Capitol in January 2020.

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  • Politics

WNBA Team Co-Owned By Ex-Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Sold After Players' Criticism

The new three-member investor group which purchased the team includes former Dream player Renee Montgomery, making her the first retired player to have become both a co-owner and a WNBA executive.

February 26, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
A picture of Ahmaud Arbery with his mother next to a school photo.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: One Year After Killing Of Ahmaud Arbery, Where Do We Stand?

Tuesday on Political Rewind: A year has passed since the death of Ahmaud Arbery. The 25-year-old was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood outside of Brunswick, Ga., not far from his home. 

Where do we stand in seeking justice for this young man from Georgia? How has the country grown and where is more attention needed?

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
The Farmers Co-op Antiques Mall in Redmond, Ore., included, until recently, a vendor selling Nazi memorabilia and racist caricatures.

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  • Race

Symbols Of White Supremacy Confront Oregon Shoppers At Antiques Mall

Mass protests have brought attention to racism in systems, actions and beliefs. But as 15-year-old Lily Gallentine discovered, hate can also take shape in objects.

February 14, 2021
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  • Emily Cureton
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  • Race

Georgia Today: How The Key To Black Power May Lie In Reversing The Great Migration

During the Great Migration, six million Black Americans moved from the South up North. They wanted work opportunities and a respite from the sting of racist Jim Crow laws. Guest host Leah Fleming talks with New York Times columnist Charles Blow, who is pushing for a reversal of the Great Migration.

February 01, 2021
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  • Leah Fleming ,
  • Sean Powers ,
  • and 1 more
A crowd of people hold signs protesting systemic racism.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: In Fight For Equity, Can Biden Bridge Executive Orders To Systemic Change?

Thursday on Political Rewind: In his first days in office, President Joe Biden has declared a commitment to addressing systemic racism. On Tuesday, Biden signed a series of executive orders signaling that his administration will attempt to tackle inequities in housing, criminal justice, economic mobility, health care and more.

Our panel today weighs in on the president’s first steps toward this lofty goal. He may have set important priorities, but how monumental is the task ahead? And can he win the support he needs to move the country past its long history of racial injustice?

January 28, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., waits for Vice President Mike Pence to arrive for her swear-in reenactment for the cameras in the Capitol on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020.

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  • Sports

Atlanta Dream, Co-Owned By Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, Is Close To Being Sold

Ever since Loeffler denounced WNBA support for Black Lives Matter, players have wanted the league to force her to sell the team.

January 21, 2021
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  • Emma Peaslee
An anti-racism protester near Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., in May is tear-gassed as he attempts to retrieve a flare thrown at police.

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  • National

Protests In White And Black, And The Different Response Of Law Enforcement

Police yielded to the almost entirely white mob of pro-Trump insurrectionists as they stormed the Capitol. Protesters for racial justice see a contrast with how their demonstrations were policed.

January 08, 2021
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  • Brakkton Booker
Kareemah Hanifa

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  • Law

‘Second Chance’ Law Takes Effect, Offers Hope To Georgians With Criminal Past

Georgia Senate Bill 288, known as the “second-chance law,” passed in June in the Georgia state senate, allowing for the expansion of expungement to those who have committed nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. 

January 01, 2021
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  • Eva Rothenberg
Charmaine Turner (left) with her daughter Secoriea.

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  • Family

‘A Special Angel In Heaven’: Parents of Secoriea Turner Continue to Grieve, Seek Justice

For eight short years, Secoriea Turner was a bubbly, bright child who loved to dance, make TikTok videos and make new friends. She lit up every room she entered.

December 31, 2020
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By:
  • Jade Abdul-Malik
Members of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) protest against the death of George Floyd outside U.S. Consulate in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement on June 8, 2020 in Sandton, South Africa.

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  • Race

In 2020, Protests Spread Across The Globe With A Similar Message: Black Lives Matter

Journalists based in Colombia, South Africa and Indonesia talk about how the Black Lives Matter movement inspired activists abroad this year.

December 30, 2020
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman ,
  • Ryan Benk,
  • and 1 more
Secoriea Turner's family attorney Mawuli Davis addresses the media in October regarding the Bozeman Law Firm's intent to sue the city of Atlanta.

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  • News

‘A Bright Light, Extinguished’: A Civil Rights Attorney Fights For Secoriea Turner’s Justice

When Secoriea Turner, an 8-year-old Black girl from west Atlanta, was killed in the aftermath of Rayshard Brooks’ death, civil rights attorney Mawuli Davis knew something had to be done.

“We believe Secoriea should be lifted up as a martyr of this movement,” he said. 

December 30, 2020
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By:
  • Jade Abdul-Malik
The Justice Department announced Tuesday it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice (pictured in a memorial).

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  • Race

Justice Department Declines To Prosecute Cleveland Officers In Death Of Tamir Rice

The department announced that it found insufficient evidence to "support federal criminal charges" against Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.

December 29, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Pastor Rev. William Lamar IV leads his congregation in prayers, during a service at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., in 2014.

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  • National

Pastor Of Black Church Defaced In Protests: 'An Assault On Our Historical Resolve'

Black Lives Matters signs from two historic Black churches were destroyed. William Lamar IV says his congregation will keep its "desire to make this nation what it claims to be, but never has been."

December 14, 2020
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  • Laurel Wamsley
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