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Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:10:10 +0000
Author: Melissa Chan
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murdering George Floyd—a historic moment for the racial justice movement in a nation where law enforcement officers are rarely found guilty of killing civilians. An outpouring of emotion and cheers erupted outside the tightly fortified Minneapolis courthouse where a jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree…
Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:54 +0000
Author: Sean Gregory
The Super League leans heavy on American sports principles.
Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:28:45 +0000
Author: Joshua D. Rothman
Between the 1820s and the 1830s, the number of slaves transported across state lines increased by 85%, reaching the point where white people forced the migration of nearly thirty thousand enslaved people, on average, from one state to another every year
Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:55:24 +0000
Author: Ciara Nugent
“The U.S. should not strike an agreement with the federal government because it won’t be fulfilled”
Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:15:23 +0000
Author: Belinda Luscombe
I did not start walking around my neighborhood to meet people. I went outside for the same reason Pleistocene-era humans did: air, food and cave-fever. But I also did not start walking around my neighborhood to not meet people. I understood the necessity and luxury of working from home, but I dreaded the dreariness. There…
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Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:32:33 +0000
Author: Philip Elliott
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. “We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort.” It was November 24, 1963, and that was the message from the Justice Department’s…
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Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:18:24 +0000
Author: Sarah E. Ryan
History suggests that radical change is possible. We can defund the police if we want to. After all, we have done this kind of thing before
Read more: History’s Lesson for Activists Who Want to Defund the Police
Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:56:02 +0000
Author: Tara Law
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended stopping use of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine on April 13, they declared the action a “pause”—a brief intermission as the government investigates a possible link between the vaccine and blood clots in a small number of recipients. The…
Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:30:38 +0000
Author: Judy Berman
In 2021, even the tamest, most Middle American TV franchises are looking to 4/20 as an opportunity for brand expansion
Read more: 3 New Stoner-Friendly TV Series to Watch on 4/20
Created: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:57:53 +0000
Author: Ciara Nugent
“Without all the work that women did this year, there’d be no economy to rebuild.”