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Tribeca Festival 2022: Taylor Swift, Derek Jeter and Jennifer Lopez headline as the event returns to full-size lineup

NEW YORK — The Tribeca Festival is back with some of music’s biggest hit-makers — and one of baseball’s greatest hitters.

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Harris calls for unity as Buffalo lays the last shooting victim to rest

Vice President Harris spoke during the memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, the last of 10 Black people killed in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket to be laid to rest.

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‘Enough is enough’: Harris addresses funeral of Ruth Whitfield after Buffalo shooting

Al Sharpton calls on ‘all good people’ to stand up for justice at last funeral for victims of racist attack

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Two years after Floyd, Biden signs police reform executive order

Steering a middle path, US president finds consensus for narrow reforms after overhaul proposals fail in Congress.

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Biden to sign policing order on anniversary of George Floyd’s death

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order Wednesday afternoon aimed at putting new limits on federal law enforcement, to mark the second anniversary of George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis Police officer.

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What would George Floyd’s life have looked like without the crushing weight of racism?

Two years on from his death, it’s worth considering the success he might have had in a different world, say writers Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

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Biden to sign policing order on anniversary of George Floyd's death - Roll Call

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order Wednesday afternoon aimed at putting new limits on federal law enforcement.

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Biden to sign policing order on anniversary of Floyd's death

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on policing Wednesday, the second anniversary of George Floyd's death

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'I wish I had a magic wand': In Buffalo, wounds are deep

Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city's Black neighborhoods had been dealing with wounds that are generations old

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Funeral held for youngest victim of Buffalo supermarket shooting

Roberta Drury was described as ‘big hearted’ with a ‘smile that could light up a room’ as she was laid to rest on Saturday

The Independent UK

‘His heart is broken’: Buffalo mourns shooting victims as first funeral held

Civil rights and community leaders gathered the night before to plead with the nation to confront and stop racist violence

The Guardian - US

Buffalo families begin to eulogize victims of racist attack

The first of several funerals for 10 Black people massacred at a Buffalo supermarket was planned for Friday, one day after victims’ families called on the nation to confront the threat of white supremacist violence

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‘She told Martin Luther King: tell ’em about the dream!’ The eternal life of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson

Fifty years after her death, friends and fans including Al Sharpton assess the legacy of a singer who took gospel mainstream and became ‘as big as Beyoncé’

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The Buffalo mass shooting comes amid rise in racial violence in US

Hate-based crime has been getting worse in recent years, largely cultivated in the cauldron of darkest reaches of the internet

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Grand Rapids police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya commended for foot chases

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Christopher Schurr has earned multiple commendations during his seven-year career as a Grand Rapids police officer, including being lauded several times for successful foot chases.

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Who is Christopher Schurr, the officer who shot Patrick Lyoya?

A Grand Rapids police officer who fatally shot a man in the back of the head during a struggle that followed a traffic stop on April 4 shared a connection with him eight years ago and half a world away.

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Police release name of Grand Rapids officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom on Monday released the name of the officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya on April 4.

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US police release name of officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya

Lyoya’s family and supporters demanded the officer, Christopher Schurr, be named publicly and face criminal charges.

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Police chief releases name of officer who shot Patrick Lyoya

Grand Rapids, Michigan, police have identified Christopher Schurr as the officer who killed Patrick Lyoya three weeks ago

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During eulogy for Patrick Lyoya, the Rev. Al Sharpton demands federal probe into shooting

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Rev. Al Sharpton has been here before. So has Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney.

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Sharpton demands federal probe into Lyoya's shooting death at funeral

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Calling Patrick Lyoya's shooting death "an execution" by a police officer, the Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday demanded a federal investigation into the fatal traffic stop.

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Attorney Crump accuses officer of racial profiling of Lyoya; results of independent autopsy released

DETROIT — Attorneys for Patrick Lyoya's family said Tuesday the 26-year-old's death appears to be a “classic” case of Lyoya being targeted for a “driving while Black" traffic stop.

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Autopsy shows unarmed Black man shot in head by US police officer

Patrick Lyoya was killed during a traffic stop in US state of Michigan, spurring protests and calls for accountability.

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Crump accuses officer of racial profiling of Lyoya; results of autopsy being released

DETROIT — Patrick Lyoya died of a gunshot wound to the back of head, an independent autopsy conducted by forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz confirmed.

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