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• Assistant Principal Fatally Wounded in Loop High-Rise Confrontation

  16-09-2023 16:00
  
  A 32-year-old assistant principal died from gunshot wounds after a confrontation with another man at a Loop high-rise building on Thursday night, according to Chicago police.
  No further information has been released about what led to the shooting, only that police found Abnerd Joseph with multiple gunshot wounds in the hallway of a building on the first block of East Monroe Street. Joseph died shortly after at Northwestern Hospital.
  Police have the 45-year-old man, a concealed-carry license hold
  
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• Remembering 2 Black Boys Who Died In Aftermath Of Birmingham Church Bombing

  16-09-2023 15:30
  
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  On the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham church bombing, we recognize Johnny Robinson and Virgil Ware, two Black boys who have been largely forgotten as victims of the attack.
  Ware and Robinson died on September 15, 1963 after four girls —14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carol Robertson and 11-year-old Denise McNair — were killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. For decades, only the four girls received national a
  
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• Beverly Hills Police Profiled Over 1,000 Black People, New Lawsuit Alleges

  16-09-2023 14:30
  
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  A $500 million lawsuit has been filed against the Beverly Hills Police Department over the alleged racial profiling of more than 1,000 Black people.
  On Monday (September 11), civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced the lawsuit on behalf of 1,088 Black motorists who were pulled over in Beverly Hills between August 2019 to August 2021, per the Associated Press. Only two of those drivers were convicted of crimes, Crump said.
  During the two-year period, roughly a third of all a
  
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• Cook County Announces Preparedness for the Pretrial Fairness Act’s New Procedures

  16-09-2023 14:00
  
  Beginning Monday, Illinois is set to become the first state to completely do away with the use of money bonds and adopt a more equitable system for pretrial detention grounded in safety, not access to money. Under the new law, money will no longer be a condition of release.On September 18th, Illinois will implement the Pretrial Fairness Act, marking a profound departure from the use of monetary bonds. This sweeping legislation is designed to overhaul pretrial procedures, to enhance transparency
  
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