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Editorial: Planned pardon in fatal shooting is the GOP's latest retreat from law and order

Apparently, it’s open season on Black Lives Matter protesters in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t even bother waiting for the sentencing of a man convicted of shooting and killing a protester supporting the movement before announcing he plans to pardon the shooter. Never mind that a jury has unanimously determined…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Civil rights group files federal lawsuit against North Carolina’s new anti-rioting law

RALEIGH, N.C. — A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the North Carolina law passed this year that imposes stricter penalties for rioting.

Tribune News Service

Benjamin Hochman: St. Louis' Becky Sauerbrunn, soccer's Captain America, fights for women’s and trans rights

To my daughter:

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What to know as Gov. Abbott pushes to pardon a man who was just convicted of murder

Sgt. Daniel Perry hasn't been sentenced in the killing of Garrett Foster. But the pardons board is already starting to review his case, at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's request.

WEKU

Abbott: Pardon man who killed protester

Daniel Perry tweeted that he "might have to kill a few people" on his way to work

Salon

Outrage as Greg Abbott says he will pardon Army sergeant who killed BLM protester: ‘Absolutely insane’

Daniel Perry found guilty of fatally shooting 28-year-old Garrett Foster

The Independent UK

Proud Boys leaders' Jan. 6 sedition trial inches to a close

A jury will soon decide whether the onetime leader of the Proud Boys extremist group is guilty in one of the most serious cases brought in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

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Outrage as Greg Abbott says he will pardon Army sergeant who killed BLM protester: ‘Absolutely insane’

Daniel Perry found guilty of fatally shooting 28-year-old Garrett Foster

The Independent UK

Texas governor working ‘swiftly’ to pardon Army sergeant convicted of killing BLM protester

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday said he’s working to pardon a U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020, citing the state’s “Stand Your Ground” laws.

Tribune News Service

US army sergeant found guilty of murdering BLM protester in Austin

Texas governor moves to pardon Daniel Perry, who was convicted of shooting Garrett Foster during rally in 2020

The Guardian - US

Adidas stops challenging Black Lives Matter 'confusingly similar' three stripes image

Black Lives Matter filed to the trademark three yellow parallel stripes and Adidas opposed the move, in a court filing that was later withdrawn

Daily Mirror

Adidas really messed up with its BLM logo complaint

We've never seen a brand backpedal so fast.

Creative Bloq

In 2020, CBS made a landmark deal with the NAACP. So where are the TV shows?

LOS ANGELES — The 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police horrified the country, sparking massive protests and propelling the Black Lives Matter movement demanding justice for Black people in the face of systemic racism and violence.

Los Angeles Times

Adidas withdraws opposition to BLM trademark application

Adidas is withdrawing its challenge to a Black Lives Matter trademark application featuring three parallel stripes, two days after it contested the image with the U.S. Trademark Office

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Evening Standard

Adidas backtracks on US Black Lives Matter design opposition

Sportswear giant had opposed trademark application from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation

The Independent UK

Adidas to ‘withdraw its opposition’ to Black Lives Matter using three-stripe design

Quick change in stance prompted by worry that objection could be seen as criticism of racial justice activism

Fortune

Adidas backtracks after fighting against Black Lives Matter’s merch designs

The sportswear giant U-turned 48 hours after asking officials not to approve the activist group’s trademark application.

France 24

EU members split over nuclear energy inclusion in renewable portfolio

As the European Union is poisedto agree tougher targets to expand renewable energy by 2030, members remain split over whether to recognise nuclear power as a renewable energy source and allow it to contribute towards the EU's goals. Plus, Adidas files and quickly retracts an opposition to the Black Lives…

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The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a messenger. That’s my calling’: 80s hitmaker Billy Valentine on his socially conscious comeback

Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) made him a star, but his success faltered and he went behind the scenes. He explains why Black Lives Matter helped galvanise him again

Los Angeles Times

Why is this California Trader Joe's pushing for a union? A rat infestation is only part of the problem

Dominique Bernardo first noticed chewed up bread.

ABC News

How John Boyega's Black Lives Matter speech connected him with the late Michael K Williams

When John Boyega gave an impassioned speech at a Black Lives Matter rally in June 2020, he worried it would ruin his career in movies. Instead, it led him to his latest project, Breaking.

The Guardian - UK

Baldwin v Buckley: how the ‘debate play’ made a riveting resurgence

Verbal clashes from history are being thrillingly restaged for modern audiences. Do these grand battles prove we’ve lost the art of disagreement? And could watching them anew change the politics of tomorrow?

Salon

The "woke" wars are worse than you think

However racist you thought the "woke banks" talking point was, somehow it's even worse

Texas Observer

Dallas Has a Problem With ‘Zombie’ Astroturf Groups

Despite being exposed as bogus, some right-wing organizations keep coming back from the dead. No one knows who is funding them.

The Guardian - UK

Family Tree review – study of the mother of modern medicine falls between poetry and play

Mojisola Adebayo’s play connects Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used in decades of vital scientific research, with the Black Lives Matter movement

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