Journalism – Page 37

23Oct

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Trump claim brings pain to relatives of lynching victims

The president's comments were ill-informed at best and racist at worst, relatives of lynching victims say. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice honours thousands of people killed in racist lynchings in Montgomery, Alabama [File: Brynn Anderson/AP] Willie Edwards Jr, a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. Two years earlier, white men bludgeoned black teenager Emmett Till to death in Mississippi. No one went to prison for either slaying. Both people died in racist lynchings and relatives of each were aghast on Tuesday after President Donald Trump compared his own possible impeachment to lynching - racist killings, often to incite terror, that took an estimated 4,400 black lives over...

23Oct

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Chicago police chief to skip Trump’s first visit as president

The move is the latest in a long contentious relationship between the president and the city, a Democratic stronghold. His spokesman said Johnson will be hosting and attending several other events at the conference [File: Teresa Crawford/AP] President Donald Trump's appearance next week at a police chiefs conference will be his first visit as president to Chicago, a city he has ridiculed for years. The city's top cop plans to skip the speech, even though he is hosting the event. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson's apparent snub of Trump's speech on Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference is the latest chapter in a long and contentious relationship between the Republican president and the nation's third-largest city, a Democ...

17Oct

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Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings dies aged 68

As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings led multiple investigations into Donald Trump. Cummings died early on Thursday after complications from longstanding health challenges [Patrick Semansky/AP] Maryland Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings died on Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said. Cummings, who was 68, became the powerful chairman of a US House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, and was a formidable orator who passionately advocated for the poor in his district that encompassed a large portion of Baltimore. As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings led multiple investigations into Trump's govern...

14Oct

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Fort Worth cop who shot black woman in her home to be questioned as concerns are raised about use of force

The white Fort Worth police officer accused of shooting a black woman inside her home over the weekend has resigned, Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus announced Monday. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was gunned down early Saturday by an officer who'd been summoned to her Fort Worth home to conduct a welfare check by a neighbor who reported seeing Jefferson's front door open. Bodycam footage released by police showed two officers canvassing the property before one shouted, "put your hands up, show me your hands," and fired through a window. Kraus on Monday identified the officer involved in the shooting as Aaron Dean. He said Dean was placed on detached duty and stripped of his badge and firearm after he was served with his written administrative complaint yesterday. "My intent was to meet with him t...

9Oct

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Racial Profiling and the Loss of Black Boyhood

At 13, I was into chess and Dungeons and Dragons. That was the year I hit my growth spurt—and learned what it is to be seen not as a child, but as a threat. At 13, I had just hit my first growth spurt. I walked to and from junior high with friends. I walked the same path every day with the same guys. One sunny spring afternoon on our way home, a police car came from nowhere, jumped up on the curb, and blocked us off on the sidewalk. Shocked, we were stiff with fear when the two large armed and armored men stepped slowly from their squad car. White and clean-shaven as usual, they both had their hands already on their guns. They told us to stand against the wall. A couple of us tried to ask what was happening or what we’d done. They didn’t answer; they just kept asking, “Whe...

7Oct

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Google suspended facial recognition research for the Pixel 4 smartphone after reportedly targeting homeless black people

Google suspended a research programme designed to improve its facial recognition after a report surfaced that its contractors had been tricking black homeless people into letting their picture be taken. Anonymous contractors told the New York Daily News they been instructed to find people with darker skin tones to improve facial recognition on Google's upcoming Pixel 4 smartphone. The New York Times reported Friday that the company had suspended its facial recognition research. Subjects were offered a $5 gift card, and one source told the outlet they were specifically told to target homeless people because they were less likely to talk to the press. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Google has suspended a facial recognition research programme designed to ...

4Oct

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White officer says leading black man by rope would look ‘bad’

Bodycam footage of white Texas officers leading a homeless black man by a rope down Galveston streets released. The incident sparked outrage in the US [Screenshot/City of Galveston YouTube] A white Texas police officer could be heard twice on a body camera video saying that leading a homeless black man by a rope down city streets while he and his partner were on horseback would look "bad", according to the footage released on Wednesday. Two Galveston police officers arrested 43-year-old Donald Neely on August 3, accusing him of criminal trespass. Galveston is about 80km (50 miles) southeast of Houston. Images shared online of the two white officers leading Neely using a rope tied to his handcuffs - reminiscent of pictures showing slaves in chains - sparked...

I’m a Young Black Activist in Georgia. I Don’t See Voting As the Only Answer

3Oct

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I’m a Young Black Activist in Georgia. I Don’t See Voting As the Only Answer

I never thought about politics purely in the context of elections. When I was growing up in Georgia, my first exposure to inequity came through my lived experience of living in a majority Black area. My first exposure to fighting inequity came through reading books. I learned about the icons of Black grassroots organizing: civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., anti-rape activist Rosa Parks, workers rights champion Dorothy Bolden. What spoke to me was their commitment to door knocking, radical imagination, hard conversation, and deep care for people they had never met. To me, that looked like the most viable path to liberation. This history taught me that when discussing the role and impact of electoral politics for Black people, the context of community is paramount. It wasn’t unti...

2Oct

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Ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger’s murder conviction ‘a huge victory for black people in America’

A former Dallas police officer convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a black neighbor in his own home could be sentenced to as little as two years in prison, a judge ruled at a sentencing hearing Wednesday. Amber Guyger, who fatally shot Botham Jean a year ago as he ate a bowl of ice cream, normally would face a sentence ranging from five years to 99 years. But Judge Tammy Kemp ruled the jury can consider a "sudden passion" defense that could reduce a sentence. Kemp made the ruling at the behest of the defense – with the support of prosecutors. Guyger, who is white, had testified at trial that she returned from an extended police shift and incorrectly believed she had entered her own apartment. She said she panicked when she saw Jean, an accountant from St. Lucia who she had never m...

Friends and Associates Speak to Los Angeles’ Ashley Butts Character

19Sep

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Friends and Associates Speak to Los Angeles’ Ashley Butts Character

Despite recent false press, Los Angeles’ Ashley Butts is maintaining a positive attitude thanks to solace from family and friends and others who can attest to her good character. An honors student, Ashley is a law school graduate, having received her law degree from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law in 2019. Prior to enrolling in law school, Ashley graduated with honors from the University of Santa Clara in 2009, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Minor in African American Literature and Sociology. Ashley attends Sunnyside Baptist Church in Westmont, CA and directs the church’s fitness ministry, where she provides fitness training and health education to underserved minority women at her church. She also mentors youth in the Fast Camp program, a free summ...