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Nolan Wells death: at least two people charged over alleged threats to officials

Threats come as questions surround death of Mississippi teenager, who was found dead after boat trip with friends

The Guardian - US

Trey Reed Case Update: Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Confirms It Wasn't Suicide — What Really Happened?

An independent autopsy funded by Colin Kaepernick has cast doubt on the official ruling of Trey Reed's death as suicide, revealing new evidence that raises urgent questions.

International Business Times

Trey Reed Case Update: Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Confirms It Wasn't Suicide — What Really Happened?

An independent autopsy funded by Colin Kaepernick has cast doubt on the official ruling of Trey Reed's death as suicide, revealing new evidence that raises urgent questions.

International Business Times UK

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Harvard agrees to transfer early photos of enslaved people to African American museum

University settles with Tamara Lanier, who says she is descendent of people featured in 175-year-old images

The Guardian - US

Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer Benjamin Crump Represents Black Victims

Benjamin Crump, 'Black America’s attorney general,' represents families in high-profile cases of police brutality and racial injustice, aiming to increase ...

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Prominent civil rights lawyer represents slain US airman's family. A look at Ben Crump's past cases

The family of a young Black U.S. Air Force airman gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy is represented by a prominent civil rights lawyer

The Independent UK

Biden calls for justice after footage released of police killing Black woman

Lawmakers ‘must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act now’, Biden says, amid shock over Sonya Massey death

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Baltimore's former top prosecutor spared prison for mortgage fraud and perjury

A former Baltimore city prosecutor has been spared prison time in her sentence for perjury and mortgage fraud

The Independent UK

Family of Black U.S. airman seeks answers after fatal shooting by Florida deputy

Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old senior airman, was shot and killed at his apartment by a deputy this month. Lawyers for the family dispute the sheriff's office claim of self-defense.

WEKU

Families of 3 Black victims in fatal Florida Dollar General shooting plead for end to gun violence

Lawyers and family members of three Black people who were fatally shot during a racially motivated attack at a north Florida Dollar General blamed the national chain for not providing security to protect customers and employees

The Independent UK

Georgia sheriff to release body camera video of traffic stop in which deputy killed exonerated man

A Georgia sheriff plans to release video of a traffic stop where a deputy fatally shot a Black man who three years earlier was released from prison after being wrongfully convicted

The Independent UK

Chicago Public Schools’ aggressive tactics for removing principals under the microscope

Nine principals have been removed pending discipline or investigations into “serious misconduct” in recent years. Of those, six are Black men.

Chicago Sun-Times

Paul Sullivan: Former Northwestern players speak up about a ‘rampant’ hazing culture that has tarnished the university

“All we wanted to do was play ball,” Simba Short said Wednesday morning as he stood behind a lectern with three other former Northwestern football players.

Chicago Tribune

Ben Crump, family demand Orlando police release body cam video of fatal shooting of unarmed man

ORLANDO, Fla. — Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and the family of Derek Diaz, an unarmed man who was fatally shot by an Orlando police officer on Monday, demanded that the department release body camera footage of the incident at a press conference Saturday morning.

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Tribune News Service

Malpractice lawsuits over denied abortion care may be on the horizon

A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear they might face criminal prosecution or loss of their medical license.

Salon

Abortion denials may trigger lawsuits

It's only a matter of time before a pregnant patient dies from lack of care, triggering a wrongful death claim

The Independent UK

Sheriff probes 'self defense' claim of white woman who fatally shot Black neighbor in front of kids

A Florida sheriff says detectives must investigate self-defense claims before any criminal charges can be brought against a white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud

Daily Mirror

Ed Sheeran arrives in court for week two of Thinking Out Loud copyright trial

Suffolk-born singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is being sued by the family of Ed Townsend, Marvin Gaye's co-writer, over alleged similarties between Gaye's hit 'Let's Get it On' and Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud'

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Salon

Teen shot after knocking on wrong door

16-year-old Ralph Yarl reportedly went to pick up his little brothers but accidentally went to the wrong house

Tribune News Service

Family of slain Black man Tyre Nichols bring fight for justice from Memphis to NYC

NEW YORK — The devastated parents of the Black man killed in a caught-on-video beating by Memphis, Tennessee, police officers recounted the horrors of his death Saturday during a Harlem visit where they once more demanded justice for their slain son.

The Independent UK

Rasheem Carter: Family of Black man ‘found dismembered after complaining of racism’ calls for federal probe

‘Nothing is being swept under the rug. There’s nothing to hide’

The Independent UK

Prominent US civil rights lawyer Jasmine Rand on being an ally and fighting against racism

Exclusive: For Jasmine Rand, who worked with George Floyd’s family, it’s important to navigate her career in service to others, as she tells Nadine White on International Women’s Day.

Tribune News Service

Malcolm X’s family, on anniversary of assassination, announce $100M ‘conspiracy’ lawsuit against NYPD

NEW YORK — Exactly 58 years to the date that Malcolm X was assassinated in a hail of gunfire on a Manhattan stage, his family announced plans to file a lawsuit against the NYPD accusing cops and various government agencies of intentionally concealing evidence of his murder.

ABC News

The death of Tyre Nichols after an encounter with the Memphis Police Scorpion unit has left the city reeling

Tyre Nichols's death has shone a light on a specialised policing unit that was supposed to help prevent violent crime in Memphis. WARNING: Readers might find some details in this story distressing.

The Guardian - US

Tyre Nichols’s death: seven officers have been removed from duty, police confirm

Two EMTs and a firefighter also fired as lawmakers call for meeting with president and investigation continues

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