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The People of the State of Illinois v. Regina Whitaker
Regina Whitaker's appeal contests the trial court's decision to grant the State's petition for her pretrial detention on charges of aggravated vehicular hijacking in Cook County, Illinois.
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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
In 1989, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in Overtown, the Colombian-born police officer William Lozano crashed his car into a biker, Clement Lloyd, who was fleeing him. Another young Black man riding with Lloyd, Allan Blanchard, also died from the ensuing crash. Blanchard had just arrived in Miami from the Virgin Islands. Three days of uprisin
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Storer—which, according to the exhibition signage, was one of three historically Black colleges in West Virginia—was closed after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954. Its Blackness violated the prohibition of segregation. The other two are still open today, but have tiny numbers of Black students in attendance.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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