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Year: 2021

Legisladores predijeron la creciente brecha racial más de 50 años antes de la muerte de George Floyd. ¿Por qué la solución no se ejecutó?

(CNN) — Hace un año, las desgarradoras últimas palabras de George Floyd, «No puedo respirar», conmocionaron al mundo entero. El 20 de abril se dictó un veredicto de culpabilidad, pero los estadounidenses negros no tuvieron tiempo de celebrar el raro hecho de que un exagente de policía blanco fuera condenado por el homicidio de un

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A transgender woman placed in a men’s prison after alleging abuse has been moved to a women’s facility

A transgender woman placed in a men’s prison after filing a lawsuit alleging abuse at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been moved to an out-of-state women’s facility, according to her lawyer. Rae Rollins had filed a lawsuit in March, alleging she was one of several inmates attacked by corrections officers at

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Las fuerzas policiales de toda Europa son acusadas de realizar «perfiles étnicos» al detener y registrar a las personas

(CNN) — Las fuerzas policiales de toda la Unión Europea han sido acusadas de «elaboración de perfiles étnicos» ilegales y de discriminación, después de que un estudio revelara que detenían y registraban de forma desproporcionada a miembros de diversos grupos étnicos, religiosos y otras minorías.Un informe publicado por la Agencia de los Derechos Fundamentales de

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Biden and Congress face increasing pressure from some Black leaders to enact police reform

President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are facing increasing pressure this week from Black civil rights leaders who say federal lawmakers have made little progress with police reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Activists say they are demanding that the Senate pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which remains stalled amid

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Washington Post: El fiscal de Distrito de Manhattan convocó al jurado investigador para considerar posibles cargos en la investigación de la Organización Trump

(CNN) — El fiscal de Distrito de Manhattan convocó al jurado investigador para decidir si se procesará al expresidente Donald Trump, en caso de que los fiscales presenten cargos penales en su investigación sobre la Organización Trump, dijeron a The Washington Post dos personas familiarizadas con el asunto. El panel convocado por el fiscal de

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An alligator from Louisiana was discovered on a South Texas beach over 400 miles away, raising questions about how it got there

When members of the National Park Service’s (NPS) turtle patrol were scouting the South Texas shore for sea turtles, they spotted an unusual visitor — an American alligator. The alligator was discovered on the sandy Malaquite Beach on the Padre Island National Seashore in Corpus Christi on Monday. The reptile is thought to have floated

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UTEP and Grafted launch ‘UTEP Athlete Network’ to enhance lifelong athlete outcomes

EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Athletic Department has announced the ‘UTEP Athlete Network,’ an online community for current and former student-athletes, in a new partnership with Grafted, an ed tech company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through the partnership, UTEP Athletics will be able to leverage the company’s video-first technology platform to help fulfill

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Former Penn State President Graham Spanier will start prison sentence on July 9, judge rules

Graham Spanier, the former Pennsylvania State University president convicted of one misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child in connection to the Jerry Sandusky scandal, will start his two-month prison sentence on July 9, according to court records and the state attorney general’s office. Spanier, 72, along with two other administrators, failed to

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