Trump issued the executive order last year in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
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US President Donald Trump arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.
U.S. President Joe Biden has cancelled his predecessor’s plans to build a National Garden of American Heroes, which would have memorialized figures ranging from George Washington to Kobe Bryant.
In an executive order signed Friday, Biden rescinded six Trump actions, including two outlining plans for the garden and a third calling for harsh prison sentences for anyone convicted of vandalizing existing monuments, reports the Associated Press.
Alabama House Democrats push for more police and criminal justice reform after Chauvin verdict
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Montgomery police officers hold signs showing support for protesters at a Justice for George Floyd event last year at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. (Mike Cason/mcason@al.com)
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Law enforcement accountability remains a top concern for Alabama Democrats heading into the final weeks of this year’s legislative session.
But for Democrats, long saddled with superminority status in the Alabama statehouse, even small victories on issues of criminal justice reform are worth celebrating.
On the day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three charges related to the murder of George Floyd, Alabama Democrats said they will continue rolling out bills aimed at holding police accountable even if major reforms, such as restricting qualified immunity for police, has an uphill climb before the Republi
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Rep. Holmes’ flippant ‘MLK school’ remark reveals depths of racial animus in its last, wrinkled days
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is seen on Martin Luther King Day, January 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images) - . GettyGetty
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I went to Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary School. Had I not, I likely wouldn’t have more than a cursory knowledge of the celebrated Black poet who was born to formerly enslaved parents in Kentucky and is still lauded for his unique, dialectic verse.
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