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• Dreaming of disarmament

  05-08-2024 22:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two nuclear bombs on Japan, who surrendered within a week of the second bomb being dropped. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flattened. Few, if any, buildings withstood the blast. More than 100,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagaski died as the cities were bombed. Eventually the […]
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• City of Chicago’s ‘Take Back the Block’ Initiative Continues in Auburn Gresham

  05-08-2024 15:30
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson and Alderman Ronnie L. Mosley lead the fourth “Take Back the Block” event in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood (Photo Credit: Lanette Warbington).
  All summer long, the City has been working to “retake” blocks besieged with violence.
  On Friday, Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Mayor’s Office of Community Safety held another “Take Back the Block” initiative, this time in the South Side’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. This is the fourt
  
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• Black Student Called ‘Cotton Picker’, Kneeled On By Peer: Lawsuit

  05-08-2024 14:00
  
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  A family has filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that a Massachusetts school district didn’t do enough to protect a Black student who was harassed and bullied, per WBZ News.
  According to the lawsuit, filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, a 14-year-old student was called a “cotton picker” by a peer last December at Amos Lawrence Middle School of the Brookline schools.
  In another instance, a peer kneeled on the Black st
  
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• 16-Year-Old Brother Of Black Airman Killed By Deputy Found Fatally Shot

  05-08-2024 13:30
  
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  The 16-year-old brother of a U.S. Air Force airman who was killed by a Florida sheriff’s deputy in his home has been fatally shot less than three months later.
  Andre Fortson, the brother of Senior Airman Roger Fortson, who was shot dead by police in May, was killed earlier this week in DeKalb County, Georgia, per CBS News.
  “The Fortson family is battling the loss of yet another young member of their family,” attorney Ben Crump said in a statement. “Thi
  
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