Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow era still haunt the South.
An example: In Ellisville, Mississippi, 2 water fountains remain standing in front of the Jones County Courthouse.
Even though the fountains don’t work, and the signs reading “white” and “colored have been covered, the subtle but discriminatory whisper of segregation remains.
May Chiu is immersed in the #heartwarming atmosphere of a #Chinatown#community home, where the echoes of a century filled with #RacialInjustice—gentrification, economic hardships and discrimination—linger through its walls.
"What police shrug off as mistaken identity never takes into account how it feels for someone to be treated as a criminal, to face police guns drawn and pointed, or the vulnerability of having one’s hands cuffed behind their back."
If this happened regularly to middle-class white people, radical police reform would have as much support as tax cuts.
#NYC settles historic class action suit over racial injustice protests
#NewYorkCity will pay more than $13 million to more than 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten during #protests against #RacialInjustice in the summer of 2020.
The agreement comes after a civil rights lawsuit accused leaders of the city's #police department of violating protesters' #FirstAmendment rights with "coordinated" brutality and unlawful arrests.