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How the nation fell in love with Alison Hammond: from Big Brother to TV royalty

From drinking whisky with Harrison Ford to co-hosting Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off, how did Hammond go from a council estate in Birmingham to fraternising with Hollywood’s elite? Emma Loffhagen reports

Evening Standard

Officer who killed George Floyd pleads guilty in tax case

The former Minneapolis police officer serving time for the 2020 murder of George Floyd has pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion

The Independent UK

Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to tax evasion charges as he remains behind bars for murder of George Floyd

Disgraced former Minneapolis police officer and convicted killer entered a guilty plea on two counts of tax evasion

The Independent UK

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Alison Hammond: the beloved Brummie who is joining Bake Off

Her explosive laughter and viral celebrity interviews stand her in good stead for the tent

The Guardian - UK

‘They murdered my baby’: Family of Irvo Otieno says video shows officers smother Black man to death

Three hospital workers and seven sheriff’s deputies charged over death

The Independent UK

3 Virginia hospital workers charged in death of Irvo Otieno at mental health facility

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who's joined the Otieno family's legal team, called the case "shocking."

Axios

Minneapolis didn’t discipline police officer who called Black Lives Matter ‘terrorist organisation’

Officer has record of misconduct allegations

The Independent UK

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Denver pays $1.6 million to settle 6 more lawsuits brought by protesters injured by police in 2020

DENVER — The city of Denver will pay $1.6 million to settle lawsuits filed by seven people injured by police officers while protesting the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

The Denver Post

Minneapolis mayor and his wife are speaking out about death threats

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly three years after the unrest following the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey still gets death threats.

Tribune News Service

Deadly Matamoros kidnapping has sparked fear among Black migrants, aid workers say

DALLAS — The kidnapping of four Black Americans — and the killing of two of them — in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros has sparked fear among Black migrants and raised concerns among aid workers who say Black asylum-seekers have long been targeted by drug cartels.

Tribune News Service

Newark unveils Harriet Tubman memorial to replace Columbus statue

Queen Latifah and Pia Wilson take part in celebration of abolitionist in New Jersey city

The Guardian - US

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.

The Independent UK

Showing of George Floyd documentary at Connecticut university canceled after protest

HARTFORD, Conn. — A group of Central Connecticut Student University students and allies protested the screening of the documentary “The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM,” to be hosted by the Turning Point USA student chapter, which ultimately canceled the public screening on Thursday night.

Tribune News Service

Bird Union drops Audubon name to distance from namesake’s racist past

Two Audubon Society chapters and the union formerly know as Audubon for All are severing the name of the white supremacist

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New York to pay millions to protesters mistreated in 2020 George Floyd protest

City settles lawsuit after hundreds of protesters were arrested, detained and subjected to excessive force in the Bronx

Tribune News Service

NYC agrees to pay up to $6 million to hundreds of protesters roughed up by the NYPD during George Floyd demonstrations

New York City has agreed to pay up to $6 million to protesters roughed up by the NYPD during a George Floyd demonstration in the Bronx.

The Independent UK

Chicago mayor's race shows impact of crime in COVID's wake

Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas ran a campaign laser-focused on public safety and support for the police as he advanced to a runoff

Chicago Tribune

In 4 years, Lori Lightfoot went from breakout political star to divisive leader of a city beset by pandemic, crime

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s failure to advance to a runoff election Tuesday represents an astonishing fall from power four years after she was ushered into City Hall with a promise of reform.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Analysis: How Lightfoot went from political rock star to rock bottom

Lightfoot was dealt a bad hand: the pandemic, civil unrest triggered by the murder of George Floyd and the violent crime wave after those demonstrations. But bad timing is too simple to explain her stunning political downfall.

Axios

Video game industry has been slow to hire Black developers

Advocates are concerned that a recent uptick may not last

The Guardian - US

A US city took down its racist statues. Where do they go next?

Richmond, Virginia, removed likenesses of Confederate generals after 2020’s protests. Now they’re in a statue graveyard

Miami Herald

Why the unwritten parts of DeSantis’ book are among its most interesting tidbits

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In his new book to be released on Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis describes what he thinks it takes to govern America in an era of grievance politics and partisan polarization, but what the Florida governor leaves out of his 256-page telling is often as interesting as what…

Chicago Tribune

Brandon Johnson once said it was a ‘political goal’ to defund police. He’s been less precise running for mayor.

As thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets during 2020′s nationwide racial reckoning on policing, one word captured the fury of that summer: “Defund.”

The Guardian - US

How building Black is the next step in the buying Black movement

‘Things remain very much business as usual within real estate’: a Black-run Manhattan skyscraper hits a roadblock

Tribune News Service

The nation's largest federal law enforcement agency has new use-of-force rules. How much will change?

SAN DIEGO — Last year, in an effort to fulfill his campaign promises of bold criminal justice reform, President Joe Biden issued an executive order he said would increase accountability for federal law enforcement agencies.

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