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June 20, 2020

Black Women and Girls Killed by Police: The Incomplete Stories of #SayHerName

African American Policy Forum African American Policy Forum

The #SayHerName vigil in memory of Black women and girls killed by the police.

Launched in 2014 by the African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, the #SayHerName campaign brings awareness to often untold stories of Black women and girls victimized by racist police violence.

June 19, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | June 19, 2020

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Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins With Police. Carnegie Hall Live: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi. Fox News’s Law & Order Experts. Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction. The Tulsa Race Massacre: Then and Now.

Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins With Police

June 19, 2020

For a week, Seth Meyers turned the start of his show over to Amber Ruffin, who shares some of her encounters with the police.

Live With Carnegie Hall: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi

June 19, 2020

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi restore minstrelsy to its global context through the journeys of the banjo and the tambourine, and in tracing those journeys show what there is to reproach versus celebrate in the birth of American music

Fox News’s Law & Order Experts

June 19, 2020

Nobody understands law & order better than these Fox News crime experts. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #FoxNews

Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction

June 19, 2020

EJI's Reconstruction in America report (http://eji.org/reconstruction) documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people in America than previously detailed during 1865-1877. The legacy of lynching is evident in racially motivated violence that continues today. Read more.

The Tulsa Race Massacre: Then and Now.

June 19, 2020

While much has changed, it’s not enough. Be a part of a better tomorrow. WATCH, LEARN, & SHARE

June 19, 2020

Racial Terror: 2,000 Black Americans Were Lynched in Reconstruction Era, Report Says

Ed Pilkington The Guardian

The killings during the 12-year period adds to the 4,400 victims from the post-Reconstruction era of 1877 to 1950, bringing the total number of people lynched to 6,500

June 19, 2020

Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom

Jelani Cobb The New Yorker

Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.

June 19, 2020

Trading One Uniform for Another: Can Police Be "De-Militarized" When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans?

Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early Portside

Getting police departments to stop acting like an occupying army will require many fundamental changes, including much closer screening of job applicants who are veterans and ending their preferential hiring treatment.