Seattle police announced Wednesday that they would begin the process of evacuating the city’s CHOP — the Capitol Hill Organized Protest that became the epicenter of Seattle’s George Floyd protests — following a string of violent incidents in the autonomous zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan also issued an executive order …
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Two days after a Minneapolis cop killed George Floyd in late May, the novel coronavirus tallied its 100,000th American victim. More than 22,000 of those lost were black, though we only make up 13 percent of the overall U.S. population. As the global pandemic was laying bare virtually all of …
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board of Reddit on Friday, asking fellow board members to replace him with a black candidate. “I’ve resigned as a member of the Reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate [and] I will use future gains …
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