Black Agenda Report Asks “If the Sioux Can Seek Justice, Why Can’t Blacks?”

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The Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Oglala Sioux have convinced the U.S. Justice Department to re-examine 50 possible political killings, from the mid-Seventies, some of which are surely linked to the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO. The program registered its biggest body count among African Americans, but Black Misleaders have made “no serious effort to exhume the full body of the program’s crimes, much less prosecute the guilty, or free the framed, or compensate the victims, or rewrite the lies of national history.”

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Thousands march against NYC’s unjust ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy (PHOTOS)

A woman is taken into custody by the police following a protest in New York (Reuters / Eric Thayer)


Several thousand demonstrators have joined a silent march down New York City’s Fifth Avenue to show their defiance of NYPD’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” policy, which they say discriminates against the city’s black and Latino communities.

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