Posts Tagged ‘ violence ’

Guilty Plea in Attempted Bombing of Spokane Martin Luther King Day Parade

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By The Editors
A Washington state men, with an extensive links to a neo-Nazi website and white-supremacist organizations, has pleaded guilty to attempting to bomb the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade last January 17.



England Struggles to Understand Causes of Riots

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By George E. Curry
England’s attempt to fully understand rioting touched off by a policeman’s fatal shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man, in many ways mirror the debate that followed the urban unrest that the United Statesunderwent in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968.



Bin Laden: Equal Opportunity Killer

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By Kenneth J. Cooper
Don’t cry for Osama.



Unofficial ‘Apology’ to Recy Taylor Falls Short of Desired Mark

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By TaRessa Stovall
Why a personal instead of an official apology for the lack of justice in a Jim Crow attack whose victim is still alive…and waiting?

 



Suspected Arrested in Attempting Bombing of Martin Luther King Day Parade

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By The Editors
Federal authorities have arrested a Washington state resident with an alleged long history of posting to a white-supremacist website and charged him with attempting to bomb the Martin Luther King Day Parade in Spokane, Washington on January 17.



Some Things Never Change

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By The Editors
Shaun Winkler would have approved if American citizens, be they marchers or onlookers, gathered for a peaceful purpose, had been injured or killed by the exploding bomb.



‘Domestic Terrorism’ Nipped in Bud on MLK Parade Route

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By TaRessa Stovall
On January 17, a sophisticated bomb with a remote detonator was discovered on the route of the Martin Luther King Day Parade in Spokane, Washington about an hour before hundreds of residents were set to march past in the spirit of justice, equality and nonviolence. The FBI described the incident as “domestic terrorism.”



55 Years Later, Emmett Till Murder Still Haunts

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By Stacey Patton
August 28th marks the 55th anniversary of the brutal murder of 14 year-old Emmett Louis Till. In the summer of 1955 he was forced out of his bed in the middle of the night at gunpoint by white men, thrown on the back of a pick-up truck and driven to a barn where he was beaten, castrated, and shot. His crime – whistling at a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, the wife a Mississippi grocery store owner.



Violence, Gun Rights, and Compassionate Progressivism

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By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
In the coming weeks, as Chicago officials extend handgun rights to its citizens in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision, and politicians debate whether or not urban residents will be better protected by armed soldiers, important lessons from the past should not go unheeded.



A Crack In The Danziger Bridge Cover-Up

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By Lee A. Daniels
Lieutenant Michael Lohmann, who supervised the police investigation of the so-called Danziger Bridge shooting, pleaded guilty in federal district court in New Orleans to one count of conspiring to obstruct justice.