Tag: convictions
2 Ex-cops Charged in George Floyd Killing Reject Plea Deals
By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's...
Freedom Riders’ 1947 Convictions Vacated in North Carolina
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they...
Bid Considered to Wipe Alabama Arrest Records of King, Parks
By Jay Reeves, Associated Press
The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she...
FILM REVIEW: Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
By Dwight Brown, NNPA Newswire Film Critic
Decades ago, long before BLM protestors marched and chanted “George Floyd—I can’t breathe,” demonstrators shouted “Yusuf. Yusuf. Yusuf....