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Houston Public Media4d
Houston building with George Floyd mural demolished days before fifth anniversary of his murder
It's unclear why the building, at the intersection of Elgin and Ennis streets in the Third Ward, was torn down.
WKU Public Radio5d
The state of civil rights in the U.S. five years after George Floyd's death
Michel Martin asks civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about changes in the legal landscape in the years since a former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of murder in George Floyd's death.
Black Star News6d
Sharpton Slams Trump’s DOJ Decision To Abandon Lawsuits Against Louisville, Minneapolis Police Departments
Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), today condemned the Trump Justice Department’s ...
The 19th on MSN7d
Five years after George Floyd’s death, activists say the promise of change remains unfulfilled
They were once hopeful that outrage over Floyd's death would improve racial equity for Black Americans. Now they worry the ...
USA Today8d
Social media speculates whether Bland is dead in mugshot
Mystery deepens around the case of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman who headed south to Texas to start a new job and who was found dead in a jail cell earlier this month. Bland's police mugshot is ...
Karen Read judge blocks Sandra Birchmore mentions; expert says cases should be wake-up call for police
The Massachusetts judge presiding over Karen Read's second trial in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe has ...
USA Today3y
Fact check: Sandra Bland was alive in her mugshot, despite years-old theory
Six years after the highly publicized death of Sandra Bland in police custody, social media users continue to circulate a conspiracy theory that police took mugshots after Bland had already died.
ABC 7 Chicago4y
Family of Naperville native Sandra Bland still waiting for accountability in year of racial unrest
In May, the world responded with protests and riots after George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody. Sandra Bland's name appeared with others on t-shirts and signs at Black Lives Matter ...
The Independent4y
Police officer who arrested Sandra Bland indicted on perjury charges
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The Texas Tribune4y
The Texas lawmakers who led the Sandra Bland Act are pushing to reinstate the police reforms stripped from their original bill
A second attempt to pass a bill to limit nonjailable offenses in 2019 as a follow-up to the Sandra Bland Act was again killed after opposition by one of Texas’ largest police unions, confusion ...
Vox6y
“The scales of justice are imbalanced”: Sandra Bland’s sister speaks out in new op-ed
The sister of Sandra Bland, a black woman whose death in a Texas ... and children are seen as threats by police. “My sister died because a police officer saw her as a threatening black woman ...
Chicago Tribune6y
Four years after her death, Sandra Bland gets to tell her side of the story
Sandra Bland won’t just go away. She spent the final years of her life as an outspoken civil rights activist, spreading the word about racial injustice and police brutality. Even in death ...