• Bringing Racial Healing to the Heart of Black Chicago

    Bringing Racial Healing to the Heart of Black Chicago
    Syda Segovia Taylor’s on a mission to transform Bronzeville, the storied Chicago neighborhood she calls home, into an epicenter of racial healing. Through Organic Oneness, a grassroots nonprofit organization she founded in 2019, she’s helped connect residents of the historically Black community to its sometimes-painful past, co-created spaces that build community capacity, and organized an annual conference on recovering from the trauma of racism. 
    But her vision — he
  • Officer Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Rams Car, Pulls Gun On Suspect

    Officer Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Rams Car, Pulls Gun On Suspect
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    Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor in 2020 and was hired earlier this year as a Carroll County sheriff’s officer, rammed his cruiser into a resident’s car and pulled a gun on several individuals, according to witnesses.
    Witnesses told The Courier Journal Cosgrove sped into Happy Hollow trailer park without his emergency lights on and hit the truck of William Joshua Short so hard that the vehicle flew into a building. Cosg

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