Eighth-graders at the Waldorf School in Santa Fe, New Mexico had spent the entire year raising $2,800 for their rafting trip, a thrilling end to their time in middle school. But then came Covid-19. Rather than mope after the trip’s cancellation, the students chose to make a major impact on the lives of others by…… MORE
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A Florida police officer pushed a kneeling protester to the ground. Then his black colleague stepped in
A Florida police officer is under investigation for allegedly shoving a black protester who was kneeling during a protest. But one of his colleagues, a black woman on the force, is receiving praise for appearing to reprimand him after the shove. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department confirmed to CNN that Officer Steven Pohorence was relieved…… MORE
Drew Brees says he will never agree with disrespecting the flag, when asked about kneeling protests against police brutality
Drew Brees, the popular New Orleans Saints quarterback, caught heat Wednesday after saying he will “never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.” His response came in an interview with Yahoo Finance, when asked his opinion about players kneeling to protest police brutality once the NFL season…… MORE
NBA is reportedly expected to approve a plan to continue the season with 22 teams
The NBA’s return is imminent — but it could only be with 22 teams. The NBA’s Board of Governors is expected to approve a league proposal that would restart the season in Orlando utilizing a 22-team format, according to ESPN and The Athletic. Three-fourths of the 30 NBA teams must also ratify the proposal. That…… MORE
‘I thought I might be killed’ — college student recalls traumatic encounter with Atlanta police
Taniyah Pilgrim says she feared she might not survive when police used a Taser on her friend Messiah Young and pulled Pilgrim from a vehicle the pair were riding in during street protests in Atlanta on Saturday. “I thought I might be killed,” she told Alisyn Camerota on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday. “Nothing really…… MORE
The National Guard has a long history of being called out during protests – but not in numbers like this
The National Guard. Maybe you’ve seen them in your community in recent months in a broad range of responsibilities: from sewing face masks for coronavirus patients to, in recent days, preventing property damage during protests. Right now, about 74,000 Guardsmen have been activated across the US. That’s more than at any other point in recent…… MORE
Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests
Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists. The “alert” was from…… MORE
Gambia calls for an investigation after a retired diplomat’s son is killed in a police standoff in Georgia
Gambia’s government is demanding that the United States investigate the police shooting of one of its citizens. Momodou Lamin Sisay, 39, was shot and killed in a standoff with police last Friday in Snellville, Georgia, just outside Atlanta. He was the son of Lare Sisay, a retired Gambian diplomat who worked for the United Nations…… MORE
America’s legacy of lynching isn’t all history. Many say it’s still happening today
When Heather Coggins saw George Floyd cry out, “Mama!” as a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck, she thought of her uncle. Timothy Coggins was stabbed and dragged to his death in a racially fueled killing that wasn’t solved for 35 years. His body was found maimed in a field in Sunny Side, Georgia,…… MORE
Governor warns ‘bad actors’ against disrupting hearings for those accused in Ahmaud Arbery killing
Preliminary hearings are scheduled Thursday for Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, according to the Glynn County Magistrate Court in coastal Georgia. The hearings are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. ET. Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested May 7 in the February 23 shooting death of…… MORE
