Tag: news about black people
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“Racism Is as British as a Cup of Tea”: Kehinde Andrews Says Many Black Brits Don’t Mourn the Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCqHzLM_jew As Monday’s state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of a national period of mourning in Britain, we speak with the U.K.’s first professor of Black studies, Kehinde Andrews, about the generational difference in perceptions of the queen within his Jamaican family, which he lays out in his recent essay, “I Don’t…
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Detroit Highway That DISPLACED Thriving Black Neighborhoods To Be DEMOLISHED | Roland Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3wODjJgZXo From the 1950s into the 1970s, highways built in U.S. cities profoundly wounded black communities. Many of these thoroughfares were a part of the federally-funded system of highways that went through black communities displacing thriving black businesses and homes. Now a federal grant will rectify what the construction of one of the shortest signed…
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2 East Cleveland police officers indicted for theft while on duty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RapzP8_nFI Two East Cleveland police officers have been indicted on charges after allegedly stealing from multiple individuals while on duty. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced on Friday that 34-year-old Alfonzo Cole and 31-year-old Willie Sims were indicted for incidents that occurred from July 2020-July 2021. The indictments come one week after two former…