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‘No denying:’ Activists demand Ralph Yarl’s shooting be investigated as a hate crime

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Civil rights leaders, elected officials and activists on Tuesday banded together for a downtown Kansas City rally in support of Ralph Yarl, the Black 16-year-old whose shooting outside a Northland home has sparked national outrage and calls for reforms.

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What we know about the shooting of Black teen who went to wrong house: ‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’

A Black teenager went to pick up his younger brothers from a friend’s house, accidentally rang the doorbell at the wrong address and was shot twice by a white homeowner. Now, protesters, celebrities and civil rights figures are demanding justice. Rachel Sharp reports

The Independent UK

Suspect surrenders after outrage in US shooting of Ralph Yarl

Lawyers for Yarl are demanding to know why gunman was initially released after Thursday’s shooting in Missouri.

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What we know about the shooting of Black teen who went to wrong house: ‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’

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‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’: What we know about the shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl

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Meet Jane Doe [UPDATED]

[UPDATE: It turns out that the Maryland intermediate appellate court reached the opposite result for the same plaintiff; post bumped up so readers can see the update, which is available in the second half of this post.].]

Reason

House where King planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation

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‘Caste is anti-Asian hate’: the activists fighting ‘less visible’ discrimination in the US

Thenmozhi Soundararajan has spent her life battling for equity. Now California could pass a landmark law protecting it

The Guardian - US

In Tennessee, expulsions echo a decades-old protest movement

In barely two weeks, two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence

The Independent UK

Report finds democracy for Black Americans is under attack

A new report from the National Urban League is citing what the civil rights and urban advocacy group says are some of the top threats to democracy for Black Americans

The Independent UK

Lawsuit: Guards beat, taunt inmate with, 'You can't breathe'

An advocacy group for prisoners’ rights has filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate, who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020 death of George Floyd at…

The Independent UK

Billy Porter to play James Baldwin in new biopic

Porter to star in and co-write film based on 1994 biography of influential writer and civil rights activist

The Guardian - US

Missouri Republicans threaten to defund public libraries in stunning move over book bans

Library groups and civil rights organisations say the latest proposal is in retaliation for a lawsuit over a recently enacted state law that threatens educators with criminal punishment

The Independent UK

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.

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NYPD reboots cyborg police dog after backlash and, again, civil rights advocates warn against high-tech hound

NEW YORK — Digidog, the NYPD robot pooch, is back and department leaders promise it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it.

The Independent UK

ACLU sues North Carolina over harsher riot punishments

A prominent civil rights group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new North Carolina law that will increase punishments for violent protests

The Independent UK

Cisco still faces caste bias suit; engineers' case dismissed

The California Civil Rights Department has dismissed its caste discrimination lawsuit against two Cisco engineers

The Independent UK

Civil rights probe launched after fatal Park Police shooting

The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation after a U.S. Park Police officer fatally shot a 17-year-old who had driven away with an officer in the back seat after the teenager was found asleep in a suspected stolen car in Washington

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Shocking video released of police fatally shooting Black teenager found sleeping in car

FBI and federal prosecutors launch civil rights investigation into death of 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin

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UK criticized for failures in Windrush immigration scandal

A civil rights group is urging U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to follow through on promises made to thousands of people of Caribbean descent who were wrongly targeted as illegal migrants in the so-called Windrush scandal

The Guardian - UK

Civil rights group launches legal action over ‘shattered’ Windrush promises

Black Equity Organisation seeks judicial review over Suella Braverman’s decision to drop three reform commitments

The Guardian - UK

Lillian Mirmak obituary

Other lives: American-born civil rights campaigner who made London her home for more than 50 years

The Texas Tribune

Civil rights organizations file federal complaint against Texas’ takeover of Houston ISD

The ACLU of Texas, the Houston NAACP and other groups say the takeover is a violation of the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Police must get rid of officers with ties to far-right hate groups

The next mayor and his police superintendent must make it a priority to get rid of officers whose ties to far-right groups make it harder to build trust with the commu

WEKU

Need help for loved ones with severe mental health illness? California has a plan

The state is planning "Care Court" pilot programs to help people with severe mental illness. A judge can order a treatment plan that counties must fund. Disability rights groups have sued to stop it.

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