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deGregory: White supremacy in Wakanda

Opinion by Crystal deGregory | June 5, 2020

The executions of Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, George Floyd, and countless other unarmed black men and women have ignited a series of protests that have moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to cities all across the United States, and now the world over. The gig, it seems, is...

Judge: $750K bail for 3 ex-officers accused in Floyd’s death

By Steve Karnowski | The Associated Press | June 4, 2020

A judge set bail at $750,000 apiece Thursday for three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the killing of George Floyd, as a memorial service took place just blocks away. Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng made their first appearances in Hennepin County District Court as...

Atlanta Responds: Atlanta’s voices are heard following violent and non-violent protests

By Martel Sharpe | The Atlanta Voice | June 4, 2020

The streets of Downtown Atlanta have been occupied daily by protesters since Friday, May 29, in response to the outrage of the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Minneapolis, MN resident who was killed by policemen, and Breonna Taylor and Amhaud Aubrey, who were all victims of racial discrimination and...

Black Southwest flight attendant’s emotional conversation with white airline CEO

Brekke Fletcher | CNN | June 3, 2020

Stories of inflight interactions between flight attendants and passengers usually go viral because someone did something, well, not nice. This is not one of those. JacqueRae Hill, from Dallas, Texas, has been a flight attendant with Southwest Airlines for 14 years. When the protests turned violent the night of May...

Georgia governor: No more National Guard troops for now

By Ben Nadler and Sudhin Thanawala | The Associated Press | June 3, 2020

Georgia’s governor warned Tuesday that he would “do whatever is necessary” to prevent more violence following protests over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, but he ruled out calling up more National Guard troops or law enforcement officials for now. Gov. Brian Kemp said he understood why people were...

Groups condemn detainment of journalists in Atlanta protests

By The Associated Press | June 3, 2020

Journalism organizations are condemning authorities’ detainment of two journalists who were covering protests in Atlanta. The Georgia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists said in a news release that one journalist was detained Sunday and another on Monday covering protests and unrest that has followed the death of George...

Tensions rise as Floyd protests and racial unrest travel worldwide

By Sylvie Corbet and Nicolas Garriga | The Associated Press | June 2, 2020

Tear gas choked Paris streets as riot police faced off with protesters setting fires Tuesday amid growing global outrage over George Floyd’s death in the United States, racial injustice and heavy-handed police tactics around the world. French protesters took a knee and raised their fists while firefighters struggled to extinguish...

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Fact check: Trump glosses over racial disparities in jobs numbers while invoking George Floyd

By Daniel Dale, Holmes Lybrand, Marshall Cohen and Tara Subramaniam | CNN | June 5, 2020

President Donald Trump had stunningly good jobs data to talk about on Friday. Instead of rising, as expected, the US unemployment rate surprisingly fell to 13.3% in May, as the economy gained 2.5 million jobs. It was the largest monthly gain in new jobs since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking...

Source: Melania Trump’s messages of “healing and peace” is frustrating the West Wing

By Kate Bennett | CNN | June 5, 2020

First lady Melania Trump’s messaging in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the resulting protests around the country has frustrated the West Wing, according to a White House official. Out of sync with the “law and order” mantra President Donald Trump has supported, the first lady in...

Abrams: ‘I do what I can to support their message, but not to distract from their efforts’

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Annie Grayer | CNN | June 5, 2020

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said she has not physically joined in the protests over the death of George Floyd, but is being supportive in other ways, believing that young people should lead and her participation would only “distract” from the demonstrators’ message. “I appreciate the instinct of leaders to join...

George Floyd’s death an American tragedy with global echoes

By Jill Lawless | The Associated Press | June 5, 2020

When black men died at the hands of U.S. police in recent years, the news made international headlines. The name of George Floyd has reached the world’s streets. Since his death while being detained by Minneapolis police last week, Floyd’s face has been painted on walls from Nairobi, Kenya to Idlib, Syria....

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Buffalo Bills quarterback Jake Fromm apologizes for ‘elite white people’ text

By Madeline Holcombe and Jacob Lev | CNN | June 5, 2020

Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback Jake Fromm has apologized after images surfaced of him referring to “elite white people” in a text conversation from a year ago. The conversation was dated March 2019, when Fromm was the starting quarterback at the University of Georgia, and was posted to Twitter Thursday by...

NFL comments on George Floyd and gets roasted on Kaepernick

By Lauren Victoria Burke | NNPA Newswire Contributor | June 4, 2020

NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, 32, hasn’t played in the NFL since the 2016 season. He was blackballed by the NFL after silently protesting police brutality by silently taking a knee on the sidelines during the national anthem at the start of NFL games. Kaepernick became a free agent after the...

College Football Hall of Fame damaged in Atlanta protests

By Paul Newberry | Associated Press | May 31, 2020

The College Football Hall of Fame is boarded up and assessing damage from a destructive night of protests in downtown Atlanta. The facility’s most valuable trophies and artifacts were moved to a secure facility in case additional trouble breaks out amid nationwide unrest over the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a...

‘The Match II’ is the most-watched golf telecast in the history of cable television

By Ben Church | CNN | May 26, 2020

It’s official: People really have missed live sports. The proof was in Sunday’s charity golf match between Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning, Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady which attracted an average of 5.8 million viewers. According to Turner Sports, the spectacle was the most-watched golf telecast in the history of cable...

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Black Southwest flight attendant’s emotional conversation with white airline CEO

Brekke Fletcher | CNN | June 3, 2020

Stories of inflight interactions between flight attendants and passengers usually go viral because someone did something, well, not nice. This is not one of those. JacqueRae Hill, from Dallas, Texas, has been a flight attendant with Southwest Airlines for 14 years. When the protests turned violent the night of May...

Spike Lee on what’s different about these protests

By Jake Coyle | The Associated Press | June 2, 2020

It’s not the first time that Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” has been freshly urgent, but Lee’s 1989 film has again found blistering relevance in the wake of George Floyd’s death. On Monday, Lee released a short film titled “3 Brothers” connecting the death of Radio Raheem (played by Bill Nunn)...

Music industry leaders vow to pause business for a day in observation of Blackout Tuesday

By Sandra Gonzalez | CNN | June 2, 2020

The show will be paused. At least, that’s the message coming from leaders and artists in the music business as part of a movement being referred to as Blackout Tuesday. Music executives Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang spearheaded the effort to shutter normal business operations on June 2 via their...

Schools nationwide brace for cuts from new financial crisis

By Jeff Amy | Associated Press | June 1, 2020

It was during the Great Recession when Catoosa County first shortened its school year, from 180 to 175 instructional days, as it began years of furloughs due to budget cuts. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the next school year will be shorter still, with only 170 classroom days....

VOICES

deGregory: White supremacy in Wakanda

Opinion by Crystal deGregory | June 5, 2020

The executions of Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, George Floyd, and countless other unarmed black men and women have ignited a series of protests that have moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to cities all across the United States, and now the world over. The gig, it seems, is...

Ex-police chief: What’s the plan now, America?

Opinion by Cedric L. Alexander | June 2, 2020

I am a black American man who has been privileged to serve in law enforcement for 40 years. Today, if a young person of color asks me what they should do if a police officer stops them, I answer: Put your hands on the steering wheel where they can be...

The armor of God is definitely needed in these troubling times

By James A. Washington | The Atlanta Voice | June 1, 2020

With everything going on in our world today, my question to you is how does one put on the full armor of God in the midst of pandemic, the continuation of overt racism, state-sanctioned discrimination and even murder?  The bible says, “Put on the full armor of God so that...

Umontuen: ‘A walk through Atlanta at the end of a terrible week in America’

Itoro Umontuen | May 31, 2020

I took a walk on Saturday, from the King Center to Centennial Olympic Park and back, three miles in the heat of the day through a wounded city in a wounded country at the end of a week of death and fire. On Auburn Avenue I heard the call of...

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