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NEW YORK (PIX11) — U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Zeita Merchant, the commander of Sector New York, received a historic promotion on Monday. Merchant became the first Black female admiral in the Coast Guard’s 233-year history. Merchant said it wasn’t easy. She joined the Coast Guard because she wanted to go to medical school and couldn’t […]
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said all of the California county’s death penalty cases are under review after a member of her office found evidence that prosecutors in a 30-year-old case had excluded Black and Jewish people from the jury. “When you intentionally exclude people based on their race, their religion, their gender or […]
<!– –> In the footage, officers are seen confronting Frank Tyson inside a bar. New Delhi: “I always wanted to be in a bar fight,” said a US police official after pinning a Black man down on the ground and kneeling on his neck. The man later died at a hospital. Ohio Police have come […]
No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. That changed in January when the Rev. Gina Stewart took the convention stage in Memphis, Tennessee, — the Southern city home to Christ Missionary Baptist Church where she serves […]
As the Israel-Hamas war reaches its seventh month, the American public and the international community have intensified their calls for a ceasefire. Israel’s military operations in response to Hamas’s attack have resulted in the deaths of more than 30,000 Palestinians and a mounting humanitarian crisis in which many of Gaza’s residents are now facing food […]
Frank Tyson, a 53-year-old Black man, died in police custody in Canton, Ohio, after an officer knelt on his back, causing him to become unresponsive, graphic body camera
A Black man who died in Ohio was pinned down by policemen as he told them ‘I can’t breathe’, evoking memories of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The Ohio Police Department released body-camera footage, showing cops detaining a man, identified as Frank Tyson, 53, who was suspected of leaving the scene of a […]
A paramedic out of the two involved in sedating a young Black man to death while he was subjected to a chokehold by US police has been sentenced to four months of probation with 14 months of work release instead of being imprisoned. Jeremy Cooper, 49, a former paramedic with Aurora Fire Rescue, was found guilty […]
US paramedic sentenced over death of Black man during arrest The Caledonian-Record Source link
US paramedic sentenced over death of Black man during arrest El Paso Inc. Source link