America Reckons With Racial Injustice

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  'Requiem for the Enslaved' holds a major university's truths up to the light

  NPR - Tom Huizenga

  Carlos Simon is a young composer on the rise, with an ear for social justice. His best known work so far, Elegy, is a string quartet in honor of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Next year, a large-scale tribute to George Floyd will premiere with the Minnesota Orchestra, and Simon's new …

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  9,000 digital art NFTs are being released to raise funds in George Floyd's memory

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  Nearly two years after George Floyd's murder under the knee of a police officer, his brother Terrence Floyd is still fighting for justice and police reform. "[Police reform] is changing, but it's not changing at a rapid pace," says Terrence. "But it's changing. Nothing in the physical form will …

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  Mementos preserve Trayvon Martin's legacy, 10 years after his killing

  NPR - Adrian Florido

  The signs and footballs and handwritten notes that adorned the roadside memorial to Trayvon Martin could very well have ended up in the garbage. It was March of 2012, the early days after the Black teenager's shooting by a neighborhood watch volunteer named George Zimmerman. The protests had begun …

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  Trayvon Martin's killing 10 years ago changed the tenor of democracy

  NPR - Robert Baldwin III

  The killing of a Black teenager 10 years ago Saturday marked a pivotal point that would change the tenor of American culture and politics. When 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed on Feb. 26, 2012, after being followed in his Florida neighborhood by a self-appointed watcher, protesters …

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  Three ex-Minneapolis police officers guilty of violating George Floyd's civil rights

  NPR - Becky Sullivan

  A federal jury found three former Minneapolis police officers guilty of depriving George Floyd of his civil rights when they helped with the restraint that led to his death. The jury found that Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao all deprived Floyd of his right to medical care, and that two …

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  Colin Kaepernick launches new initiative to offer autopsies for police-related deaths

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  Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced the start of a new initiative to offer free second autopsies to family members of anyone whose death is "police-related." The Autopsy Initiative, offered through Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp organization, will provide free, secondary autopsies …