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Sheriff’s official allegedly covered up the incident due to ‘similarities to widely publicised George Floyd case’

John Legend spoke on stage alongside civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton and New York film director Spiek Lee at the Tribeca Film Festival on the eve of Juneteenth

Oakley has grown from a niche action sports brand to the all-but-official shades of the right wing and police, Josh Marcus writes

Chicago’s police superintendent is recommending the firing of an officer accused of dragging a Black woman from a car by her hair and kneeling on her back and neck during a period of protests and unrest following George Floyd’s killing

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MINNEAPOLIS — President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Jerry Blackwell to be the next federal judge in Minnesota, elevating the Minneapolis attorney who gained international notoriety for his role in the prosecution of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd.

Although almost every state recognizes Juneteenth in some fashion, many have been slow to do more than issue a proclamation or resolution.

The effort to officially celebrate Juneteenth as a paid holiday has faced skepticism inside legislatures that have largely chosen symbolic gestures to recognize the holiday while curtailing certain conversations on race and racism

President Joe Biden has  nominated one of the prosecutors who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer of murder in the killing of George Floyd to be a federal judge in Minnesota