George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and the impact on HE
On 25 September 2020, with little more than a month to go in the United States presidential election, and, no doubt, blind to the irony that he was speaking not far from the national historic landmark that had been the home of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King in Atlanta, Georgia, President Donald Trump delivered a blistering attack on America’s most visible and important civil rights organisation.
The president recycled many of the tropes from more than half a century ago used by racist politicians, such as George Wallace, who, upon becoming governor of Alabama in 1963, famously declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”, and J Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
What It s Like to Be Black and Asian Amid Racial Violence
I m Still Blasian and Proud, Even When It Feels Like the US Hates Both Sides of Me
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Growing up biracial, I spent most of my childhood feeling like I didn t fit in. I was always told I look too Black to be considered Asian, or that I d never
really be accepted as Black because I m mixed. Despite the hurtful comments, I ve always considered myself part of the Filipino and Ghanaian diasporas and identified as both. I never felt the need to choose between either of my cultures because they re inseparable from who I am.
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When officers from the Rochester Police Department arrived on the scene of a family dispute involving a 9-year-old girl in emotional distress in January, a brand-new tool was at the city’s disposal: Rochester’s new Person in Crisis team. Launched earlier that month, the PIC team was created as an alternative response to mental health, substance abuse and other emergency calls that would normally involve police or paramedics. Instead of police officers being the first responders to these calls – and risking the potential that the encounter could escalate into a violent one, as was the case in the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester last year – a two-person team of crisis intervention counselors and social workers would show up with the aim of de-escalating, assessing what level of care the person in crisis needed and helping to connect the person to the relevant resources, such as a mental health urgent care center.
Flint youth gather to speak out against violence after fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright
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FLINT, MI Flint youth and community supporters gathered Thursday, April 15, to speak out against violence across the nation.
Days after another Black man was shot by police just miles from where Goerge Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, a small group of youths and community members gathered at the Church Without Walls on Flint’s North Side.
Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was unarmed and fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop Sunday, April 11, in suburban Minneapolis. The shooting happened as the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin over Floyd’s death continued.