Funeral services were held Tuesday at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church to Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man whose death in a police shooting earlier this month sparked protests. Brooks’s death, less than three weeks after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, helped fuel a growing national movement against police violence …
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“Our team is here in Louisville today to ensure that people who come to vote have food and water while they wait and take home after voting, if necessary,” World Central Kitchen CEO Nate Mook said in a communicated by email to CNN. “We want to do our part to …
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According to a report, more than a dozen Ohio teens tested positive for coronavirus after returning from a trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Fourteen Belmont County school students tested positive after arriving home June 14 from the beach, The Sun News reported. “It is an initiation rite, but this …
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This weekend’s youngest victim, 3-year-old Mekhi James, was shot Saturday night when someone opened fire on her father’s car as they were traveling through the city’s Austin neighborhood, according to police records. of Chicago and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. The boy’s father quickly took him to West Suburban …
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