Five years after the murder of George Floyd, Americans are more pessimistic about racial equality and the Black Lives Matter movement, with only 43% of Americans believing the nation has not done enough to achieve racial equality and 54% believing police relations with Black communities are no better than before Floyd’s murder.
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Uvalde’s “back-the-blue” values collide with outrage over police response to Texas’ worst school shooting
BY JASON BEEFERMAN, Texas Tribune, texastribune.org UVALDE — As in many small Texas towns, law enforcement officers here eat free at local taquerias on some days and get complimentary haircuts […]
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New Report Reveals that Black and Latinx Youth are 50 Percent More Likely to Face Juvenile Incarceration than their White Peers
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Two kindergarteners in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, tried their best to pick a fight, throwing feeble punches at an older and much […]