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Nashville (AFP) - "Twenty-three in Music City / With dreams and high-heeled boots / Singin' for a crowd of blue eyes / Will they want me too?" croons Julie Williams at the Blue Room venue in Nashville. The 26-year-old, who is biracial, is one of many Black female artists carving out space in country music's capital, where predominantly white, male gatekeepers dictate who makes it -- and who doesn't. Megastar Beyonce's highly anticipated country album, out Friday, has cast a spotlight on efforts by Black performers -- a vital part of the genre's history -- to create a more inclusive Nashville. ...
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Washington (AFP) - A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy who took part in the torture of two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday. Brett McAlpin, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff's Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. McAlpin, 53, and Joshua Hartfield, 32, the Richland policeman, were the final members of the group to be sentenced on charges that included civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruc...
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Washington (AFP) - A former Mississippi policeman who carried out a brutal attack on two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Hunter Elward, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff's Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. Elward, 31, who shot one of the men in the mouth during the attack, was the first member of the group to be sentenced on charges that included civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruction ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - One of two paramedics who injected a young Black man with ketamine as he was put in a chokehold by US police was jailed for five years on Friday. Peter Cichuniec had been convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide and unlawful administration of drugs over the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old who died several days after a struggle with police in Colorado. He had suffered a cardiac arrest in the ambulance in the moments after his forceful arrest. The episode unfolded in August 2019 when police in the city of Aurora responded to reports of a "suspici...
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Lexington (United States) (AFP) - Men in a picturesque Virginia street sport Confederate uniforms, waving rebel battle flags mixed with Donald Trump campaign banners. This is 2024 in America, where the Civil War not only hasn't been forgotten -- it never truly ended. "Carry on the fight!" urged Susan Lee at an event in the town of Lexington, as several hundred fellow Southern sympathizers gathered this month to honor generals from the slave-owning 19th century Confederacy. "God save the South!" The Confederates -- a separatist rebellion seeking to preserve the South's slavery-based economy -- ...
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Washington (AFP) - Federal prosecutors said Friday they will seek the death penalty for a man convicted in the racially motivated murders of 10 Black people in a New York supermarket in 2022. The move was a first for the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden, who is running for re-election in November and who pledged during his 2020 campaign to work towards abolishing capital punishment at the federal level. White supremacist Payton Gendron, 19, was sentenced to life in prison in February 2023 by a court in the state of New York after pleading guilty to racially motivated murders...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A white US police officer was sentenced to 14 months in prison Friday over the 2019 death of a young Black man who was put in a police chokehold and injected with ketamine. The death of Elijah McClain in the western United States occurred months before the high-profile killing of George Floyd, but drew renewed attention soon after as protests against police brutality swelled. A special investigation was launched in 2020, and Randy Roedema was convicted of manslaughter in October, while two other police officers were acquitted. Sentencing Roedema in a Colorado court Friday, ...
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New York (AFP) - US rapper Kanye West apologized to the Jewish community Tuesday, after a series of anti-Semitic comments that sparked outrage and led to the star being dropped from lucrative commercial deals and banned from social media. The reason for the timing of the mea culpa was unclear -- West's most high profile outbursts came more than a year ago -- although his next album, "Vultures," is due out in two weeks. "I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions. It was not my intention to hurt or disrespect, and I deeply regret any ...
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Washington (AFP) - A jury in the western US state of Colorado on Friday found two paramedics guilty of negligent homicide in the death of a Black man who was put in a chokehold and injected with ketamine during his arrest, US media said. The August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man, died several days after a struggle with police and after being injected with the sedative by attending paramedics, in a case that caused widespread anger at the time. The jury found the two paramedics, Jeremy Cooper, 49, and Peter Cichuniec, 51, guilty of criminally negligent homicide, ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Army was on Wednesday working to remove a controversial Confederate memorial in Arlington National Cemetery as part of efforts to change names and take down monuments that honor the pro-slavery breakaway southern states. A court had temporarily halted removal of the memorial from the cemetery -- the hallowed final resting place of some 400,000 veterans and their dependents -- but later allowed it to proceed. "In accordance with the recent court ruling, the Army has resumed the deliberate process of removing the Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery imm...
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