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• NYC To Pay Millions To George Floyd Protestors Corralled By Police

  04-03-2023 17:41
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  New York City has agreed to pay millions of dollars to hundreds of protestors who were subjected to arrests and excessive force and who were corralled by police during a George Floyd protest in 2020.
  On Tuesday (February 28), a proposed settlement was filed in federal court to compensate 320 people who participated in a June 4, 2020 protest in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx borough, according to court documents, per NBC News.
  If the proposed settlement is approved b
  
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• Underpaid and underappreciated— Black quarterbacks in the NFL

  04-03-2023 15:41
  
  (L-R) Former SWAC quarterbacks, James Harris (Los Angeles Rams), Doug Williams (Washington Redskins), and Steve McNair (Tennessee Titans) were listed on the ballot as ESPN.com’s Rank’Em: asks fans to rank the top ten African-American QBs of all time.
  Black History Month is finally over. Rosa Parks can no longer be directed to the back of the bus of “eternity.” There are no longer any red lines drawn on the “baseball diamond of forever” for Jackie Robinson to
  
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• Jussie Smollett Takes Next Steps To Appeal In Hate Crime Hoax Conviction

  04-03-2023 15:06
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  Attorneys for Jussie Smollett filed their opening arguments in their quest to overturn the ex-Empire actor’s conviction for his infamous hate crime hoax, according to the Chicago-Sun Times. His legal team filed the brief just before the court’s deadline at 9 p.m. Wednesday (March 1) after multiple delays and extensions.
  On December 9, 2021, a jury found Smollett, who’s Black and gay, guilty of six felony counts of disorderly misconduct for giving false infor
  
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