Tag: Freddie Gray

Drew WilsonSeptember 9, 2015
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A wide gulf exists between how black Americans and white Americans think black people are treated by police, according to a poll released Wednesday by a group of African-American lawyers, judges, educators and law students. The National Bar Association poll showed 88 percent of blacks think police treat black people unfairly compared with 59 percent of white Americans […]

Mitch PerryJuly 31, 2015
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In the first event of 2015 where presidential candidates from both major political parties were present, Hillary Clinton blasted Jeb Bush during her speech at the National Urban League annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale. Clinton never mentioned Bush’s name. Instead she mocked the name of his political action committee, Right to Rise, that raised more […]

Mitch PerryJuly 31, 2015
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Greetings from the Extended Stay America motel in Fort Lauderdale, just a few blocks from the Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center. That’s where three of the Democrats running for president: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley will address the thousands gathered at the National Urban League’s annual meeting. The event comes a couple of […]

Melissa RossJune 9, 2015
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An on-air discussion of the McKinney, Texas, viral video making the rounds this week quickly turned into an impassioned debate on criminal justice, with one participant’s calls to confront institutional racism set against another’s plea to evaluate police use-of-force incidents case by case. “We have to look at the institutionalization of racism in America,”  activist Wells […]


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