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D.C. Kicks Off Summer Crime Initiative | The Washington Informer Every year, for nearly 10 years, the Metropolitan Police Department has identified five to six focus areas that have experienced a high density of violence and utilized all available resources, including collaborative outreach, to prevent violent crime in those areas during the summer months.

         

Every year, for nearly 10 years, the Metropolitan Police Department has identified five to six focus areas that have experienced a high density of violence and utilized all available resources, including collaborative outreach, to prevent violent crime in those areas during the summer months.

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A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. | The New York Times The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.

          

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.

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Reparations, Slavery, US Slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case For Reparations, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'D

The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic (2014) Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

        

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

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Google.org Matches Beyonce’s $100,000 Scholarship Donation to HBCU Students | The Network Journal The 22-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter launched the Formation Scholars awards, through BeyGOOD, her charitable arm, last year when she awarded four students from Howard University, Parsons School of Design, Berklee College of Music and Spelman College $25,000...

       

The 22-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter launched the Formation Scholars awards, through BeyGOOD, her charitable arm, last year when she awarded four students from Howard University, Parsons School of Design, Berklee College of Music and Spelman College $25,000…

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New York Governor Restores Voting Rights to Parolees | Colorlines An estimated 35,000 residents, overwhelmingly Black and Latinx, stand to benefit from Andrew Cuomo’s executive order.

          

An estimated 35,000 residents, overwhelmingly Black and Latinx, stand to benefit from Andrew Cuomo’s executive order.

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First Black U.S. Rolls Royce Dealer Talks Success from the Bottom Up | Ebony Thomas Moorehead could have been a Ph.D., but chose to take a chance and go into the car sales business -- and it proved to be more than the right choice

      

Thomas Moorehead could have been a Ph.D., but chose to take a chance and go into the car sales business — and it proved to be more than the right choice

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Undoing the Dirty Deed: How ‘Whites Only’ Language from Restrictive Housing Covenants Remain on Deeds Across The Country | Atlanta Black Star Unfortunately, well into the second decade of the 21st century, discrimination in the housing market against African-Americans remains far from rare.

          

Unfortunately, well into the second decade of the 21st century, discrimination in the housing market against African-Americans remains far from rare.

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