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One year ago Tuesday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds. Protesters in the St. Louis region flooded the streets to protest police brutality. Today, people are still demanding that police stop killing Black people and calling for racial equity in the criminal justice system.
A year ago, a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 10 minutes.
Floyd’s brutal death set off a wave of protests in cities across the nation, including St. Louis, where activists have long demanded that police stop killing Black people.
Kayla Reed is the executive director and co-founder of Action St. Louis.
Editor s note: This is part two of a collaboration between The Missouri Independent and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting looking at how the fight for police reform in St. Louis has evolved. Read part one.
The race was too close.
Kayla Reed, co-founder and executive director of Action St. Louis, curled over her desk. Her long, dark locs created curtains around her body as she used one hand to search election results on her cellphone. With the other hand, she hopped into a Zoom call on her laptop.
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I want to live life again | Sacramento Veteran still waiting on frozen unemployment benefits after six months
At this point, David Dwight said there s about $12,000 due to him but he still can t get through to EDD, even after submitting two appeals. Author: Lena Howland (ABC10) Updated: 6:47 PM PST February 17, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Thousands of Californians are still awaiting unemployment benefits from the Employment Development Department after 1.4 million unemployment accounts were suspended as part of fraud screening by EDD before the New Year.
It s been more than six months since David Dwight, a U.S. Air Force Veteran, has received any benefits from EDD.
at the 1957 inauguration of his grandfather, president dwight d. eisenhower and her father, vice president richard nixon. julie nixon married david eisenhower in 1968, just before her father took his own presidential oath of office. they recently collaborated on the book going home to glory, a memoir of life with dwight d. eisenhower 1961 to 1969. in this conversation at the lyndon b. johnson presidential library, the eisenhowers recall ike s presidency and later retirement in gettysburg, pennsylvania, the relationship between ike and his vice president and the reasons that propelled richard nixon to make another run at the presidency after his close loss to john f. kennedy in 1960. this program is 1 hour and 15 minutes. well, good evening, and welcome to our program tonight. i m don carlton, and i have to get my glasses out or i won t be able to see what i m talking about. and i m the director of the university s briscoe center for american history. the briscoe center is