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A Wounded Nation: Why We Can’t Give Up in the Fight for Justice
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A Wounded Nation: Why We Can’t Give Up in the Fight for Justice

Kamala Harris, Special to the SentinelJune 3, 2020

As our fellow Californians and Americans protest across our country, we must not lose sight of why they are protesting. It’s because of a deep pain that we recognize all too well. The pain of not confronting a dark history that has spanned the life of our country. The pain of recognizing our fathers, uncles, brothers, mothers, sisters, and aunts in the faces of so many Black men and women who were taken from us because of racism and violence.

Jordan Davis’ Mom Lucy McBath Wins Close Congressional Race
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Jordan Davis’ Mom Lucy McBath Wins Close Congressional Race

via The Florida StarNovember 15, 2018

Underdog gun control advocate Lucy McBath won a Georgia House Seat against GOP incumbent Karen Handel. Handel beat Democrat Jon Ossoff in last year’s special election. On Wednesday, November 8 midday, McBath declared victory in the very tight race. Handel did not concede until Thursday morning. 

Mother of Slain Teen Jordan Davis Wins Georgia Congressional Primary
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Mother of Slain Teen Jordan Davis Wins Georgia Congressional Primary

Niele AndersonJuly 25, 2018

  Lucia “Lucy” McBath mother of slain teen Jordan Davis has won the Democratic nomination in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District after winning a runoff election on Tuesday. She joins the list of a growing number of black women who want to shake up Washington. McBath stepped onto the national stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, joining eight other mothers whose Black children were killed by cops or gun violence. Jordan Davis, was the 17-year-old  who was shot to death at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2012 when a white man opened fire into the car he was sitting in

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Film Explores Murder of Jordan Davis

Stacy M. Brown, Special to NNPA News Wire from The Washington InformerDecember 2, 2015

It was a death that dominated the headlines. Jordan Davis, an African-American teenager, and a group of friends were sitting in their parked car in Jacksonville, Fla., playing rap music and, otherwise, just minding their own business. But Michael David Dunn, a 45-year-old White man and software developer, didn’t appreciate the music and, after a brief argument, returned to his own car where he grabbed a loaded handgun and fired 10 rounds into the car occupied by Davis and three others. Only Davis was hit and the 17-year-old died of his injuries. Today, that incident has been turned into a