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Brittney Griner makes surprise NYC appearance, vows to fight for 'every American detained overseas’

WNBA star Brittney Griner showed up without notice at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s annual convention in Manhattan on Thursday, marking her first public appearance in New York since her release from a Russian prison.

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Watch again: Families of George Floyd, Eric Garner, and Tyre Nichols meet Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump

Watch again as the families of George Floyd, Tyre Nichols and Eric Garner held a meeting with Reverend Al Sharpton and Ben Crump on Wednesday, 12 April.

The Independent UK

Sharpton invokes Donald Trump’s call for death penalty in the Central Park Five wrongful conviction

NEW YORK — In a fiery Saturday address, the Rev. Al Sharpton invoked ex-President Donald Trump’s call for the death penalty in the Central Park Five case — noting the Manhattan mogul will appear in the same courthouse where the exonerated defendants were found guilty.

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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg inundated with racist emails, death threats amid Trump indictment

NEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has been inundated with racist death threats amid his office’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, The New York Daily News has learned.

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Central Park 5 member hits back at Trump

Trump called to bring back the death penalty for Central Park 5 — and never apologized when they were cleared

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Al Sharpton to focus on police mental health response after Irvo Otieno's death

Irvo Otieno was killed in custody earlier this month at a psychiatric hospital while experiencing mental health distress. Reverend Al Sharpton says this has to be a turning point.

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Remembrances, calls for reform at Irvo Otieno's funeral

Family, friends and other mourners gathered at a Virginia church to remember Irvo Otieno at a funeral service

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The fight for control of school boards, April runoff races heat up and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sharpton to speak at funeral of man pinned down by deputies

The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy at the funeral of a 28-year-old Black man who died after he was pinned to the floor by seven sheriff’s deputies and several others while he was being admitted to a mental hospital in Virginia

The Independent UK

Experts beg Trump lawyer: "Stop talking"

Attorney Joe Tacopina's media appearances over the weekend may have opened a "huge can of worms" for Trump

Salon

Rev. Al Sharpton joins Brandon Johnson at get-out-the-vote rally in West Garfield Park

Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson were invited to the rally. Sharpton didn’t endorse Johnson, but he told the crowd to ‘let the record show who showed up’ to the event.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sharpton blasts Trump for posting photo showing him wielding a baseball bat directed at Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

NEW YORK — An outraged Rev. Al Sharpton blasted former President Donald Trump for his baseball-bat wielding social media post aimed at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, a 'careful lawyer,' poised to bring charges against Trump

Weeks into his new job as Manhattan district attorney last year, Alvin Bragg faced a firestorm: Two senior prosecutors heading the office’s four-year investigation of Donald Trump wanted an immediate indictment of the former president.

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FDNY firehouses still ‘hostile’ to firefighters of color despite years of civil rights litigation, Vulcan Society president says

NEW YORK — The head of the city’s Black firefighters group bashed the FDNY for not making significant progress in creating a “less hostile” atmosphere at firehouses — despite changes required by a groundbreaking civil rights lawsuit.

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Biden tries to sideline primary rivals

Corporate types don’t want messy moral debates about just what Democrats should stand for

Miami Herald

The Rev. Al Sharpton leads Tallahassee protest against Gov. DeSantis’ policies on race

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In the shadow of the building where Gov. Ron DeSantis built a resume as a national politician, hundreds of mostly Black protesters led by the Rev. Al Sharpton on Wednesday made the case that a litany of the governor’s policies are an affront to the progress they…

The Independent UK

Sharpton to DeSantis: Stop censoring Black history

The Rev. Al Sharpton has led a march to Florida's Capitol to protest Gov. Ron DeSantis’ rejection of a high school African American history course

The Independent UK

Rev Al Sharpton takes aim at UK’s ‘undeserved self-congratulation’ on race

Exclusive: The civil rights icon took aim at the government’s ‘undeserved self-congratulation’ of the UK’s track record on race

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I have seen race hate in the US and UK and the message is the same: no one is free until we are all free

Policing still devalues Black lives, but we have seen progress, and know our struggle yields results, says civil rights activist and radio talkshow host Rev Al Sharpton

Daily Mirror

Al Sharpton warns failure to address UK police brutality will lead to more deaths

Civil rights veteran Reverend Al Sharpton is currently visiting the UK and has warned that police brutality incidents such as the recent killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis officers could happen in the UK without reforms

The Guardian - UK

Al Sharpton warns UK could suffer US-style police brutality without deep reform

Civil rights veteran who gave eulogy at Tyre Nichols’ funeral says racism in UK policing could produce similar tragedies

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols' mom, chief: Women on two sides of a tragedy

Tyre Nichols’ mother and Memphis police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis are two women caught on different sides of a tragedy

The Independent UK

In Tyre Nichols' neighborhood, Black residents fear police

In a terrible way, the death of Tyre Nichols brings some vindication to members of the Black community in Memphis who live in terror of police

The Independent UK

Advocates: Black cops not exempt from anti-Black policing

The death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis stands apart from some other police killings because the young Black man was beaten by Black officers

The Independent UK

At Nichols' funeral, Black America's grief on public display

The funeral of Tyre Nichols had all the hallmarks of what’s known as a homegoing service in Black American communities: comforting gospel hymns, remembrances from loved ones and a stirring eulogy from a clergyman

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