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Poignant detour to Bus Station for Bristol civil rights leader Roy Hackett's last journey

St Werburgh's, St Paul's and the city centre will come to a standstill for 'the giant' of Bristol's history

Bristol Post

Sheryl Lee Ralph put in the time and the work. Hollywood is finally taking notice

If you ask Sheryl Lee Ralph about the educators who played a pivotal role in her life, she'll begin listing them without hesitation: her dad, her mom, her auntie Carolyn and so on. Then she'll get to her kindergarten teacher, Miss Spencer. Her eyes light up as she disappears into…

Los Angeles Times

Duke volleyball player and dad say BYU didn’t act fast enough during racist incident

As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he…

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Ram katha begins in Raj Bhawan amid objections

Five-day event will undermine secular values, say Rajasthan civil rights groups

The Hindu

Pregnant woman at risk of miscarriage is blocked entry to ER by police officers

The couple claims the police officer violated their civil rights

The Independent UK

‘We’re dwindling like the salmon’: the Indigenous nations fighting for water rights

In California’s Bay-Delta, civil rights are inextricable from water rights, a coalition says – and a way of life is on the line

The Guardian - US

Cost of living campaign march to follow Civil Rights route this Autumn

"There has been a shameful lack of political leadership when it comes to the cost of living crisis"

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Derek Chauvin to serve time in federal prison in Arizona for killing George Floyd

MINNEAPOLIS — Fired Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was taken by U.S. marshals from a state prison and is heading to a federal facility to serve his time for killing George Floyd more than two years ago, a Minnesota corrections spokesman said.

Tribune News Service

New questions in death of teen shot by police officer responding to family call about suicidal online posts

The FBI and the US Attorney’s Office have been investigating the possibility of a civil rights violation with the officer involved shooting of 17-year-old John Albers in January 2018

The Independent UK

Chauvin taken from state prison, heading to federal facility to serve time for killing George Floyd

Tribune News Service

Funeral details of Bristol civil rights activist Roy Hackett released

They will lay the Bristol Bus Boycott organiser to rest on 16 September

Bristol Post

“It’s a living hell”: Scorching heat in Texas prisons revives air-conditioning debate

Texas heat has killed prisoners and cost the state millions in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits. Prison rights advocates hope a budget surplus next year will finally push lawmakers to invest in air conditioning.

The Texas Tribune

2nd ex-prison guard convicted in inmate beating death

A former Illinois prison guard could face life in prison after a jury found him guilty of violating the civil rights of a 65-year-old inmate who died after correctional officers beat him in a lockup more than four years ago

The Independent UK

A new system to flag racist incidents and acts of hate is named after Emmett Till

The Emmett Till Alerts will be sent to Black elected officials across Maryland — along with national civil rights organizations, clergy members and other leaders.

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The Guardian - US

Former detective pleads guilty to civil rights violations in Breonna Taylor case

Ex-Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett is first conviction in case of Black woman killed by police in her own home in Kentucky

WEKU

Federal civil rights probe begins into 3 officers seen beating a man on video

Arkansas State Police said the agency would investigate the use of force.

The Independent UK

Family sues Georgia sheriff over drug raid that killed woman

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff's deputies executed a drug warrant at her cousin's home have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the deadly raid violated the slain woman's civil rights

The Guardian - US

Alarm over Texas law forcing schools to display ‘In God We Trust’ signs

Civil rights advocates say it ‘imposes religion’ as new law requires public campuses to display donated items bearing that phrase

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The Hindu

Bilkis Bano case | Past verdicts will hold Supreme Court in good stead to examine premature release of convicts

It was as recently as in April that the court had said that the State cannot exercise its remission powers arbitrarily

Reuters

American appeals money laundering conviction in UAE, lawyer says

U.S. citizen and civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor has appealed to a United Arab Emirates court his conviction for money laundering, his lawyer said on Friday, a week after he was released from detention there and returned to the United States.

WEKU

How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

One of the first lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement took place in Oklahoma City in 1958. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.

The Guardian - US

Black man left paralyzed after Texas police allegedly slam him on to concrete

Civil rights activists and Christopher Shaw’s lawyers are demanding justice after he was severely injured while in police custody in 2021

Los Angeles Times

Oakland church that gives cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms as communion sues over police raid

An East Oakland church that gives out cannabis and psychedelic plants as sacrament filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Oakland and the Oakland Police Department over a 2020 police raid.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Should home arenas around the NBA hang a banner to honor Celtics, civil rights great Bill Russell?

Given his incomparable accolades as the sport's (and maybe ALL sports) ultimate winner and his support of the US Civil Rights movement and other selfless advocacy, we certainly don't think it's too much.

The Independent UK

Ex-cop Lane will report to Colorado prison in Floyd killing

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, has been ordered to report to a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado in two weeks

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