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Annual Founder’s Kwanzaa Message
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Annual Founder’s Kwanzaa Message

Sentinel News ServiceDecember 23, 2021

Heri za Kwanzaa. Happy Kwanzaa to African people everywhere throughout the world African community. We bring and send you Kwanzaa greetings of celebration, solidarity and continued struggle for a shared good in the world. And in the words and way of our ancestors, we wish for you all things good, pure and beautiful, all the good that heaven grants, the earth produces and the waters bring forth from their depths. Hotep. Ashe. Heri.

Strength, Courage, and Transformation
WENDY'S WINDOW

Strength, Courage, and Transformation

Wendy GladneyDecember 23, 2021

I once read that we will be the same person in five years as we are today except for the people we meet and the books we read. Interesting enough about five years ago I met a young man named Jesse, I met him through his girlfriend (soon to become his wife) Marqueta, someone who had worked with me and my family for many years. 

Judge Mulls Parts of Harassment, Retaliation Suit vs. Inglewood Mayor
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Judge Mulls Parts of Harassment, Retaliation Suit vs. Inglewood Mayor

City News ServiceDecember 21, 2021

A judge said today that he is taking under submission three claims within a lawsuit brought by a former girlfriend and executive assistant of Inglewood Mayor James Butts Jr. who alleges she was wrongfully fired in 2019 and that the mayor acted “every bit like a Black Donald Trump.”

Jury Begins Deliberating Cop’s Case in Daunte Wright Death
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Jury Begins Deliberating Cop’s Case in Daunte Wright Death

Amy Forliti and Scott Bauer Associated PressDecember 21, 2021

 The suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright made a “blunder of epic proportions” and did not have “a license to kill,” a prosecutor told jurors on Monday shortly before they began deliberations in her manslaughter trial.