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The NFL's kickoff weekend ended up having the second-highest TV ratings for Week 1 over the past five seasons. The 16 games averaged 17.4 million viewers on television and digital properties. That is a 7% increase over last season (16.3 million average) and nearly equal to 2019, which averaged 17.6 million and remains the highest since 2017. The numbers were likely to increase after last season was played during the pandemic, with empty stadiums presenting a strange viewing dynamic, and many people's viewing habits changing. The first half of the season also occurred in the midst of a presidential campaign, when some people were watching cable news channels. NFL games ranked as the top six broadcasts for the past week. Nearly 23.2 billion minutes were viewed, making it the largest Week 1 minutes total since 2016. ESPN and Nielsen reported that the Monday night overtime thriller between the Las Vegas Raiders and Baltimore Ravens averaged 15.3 million on ESPN, ESPN2 and …

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The only way for 13-year-old Adam Toledo to get justice, activists say, is with a federal probe into the Chicago police officer who shot him during a foot chase down a darkened alley. About a dozen people gathered Tuesday at a legal office in the heart of a Latino neighborhood, near Little Village where the boy was shot last month, to ask the Justice Department to get involved. “We cannot leave it up to the police department to investigate itself and expect meaningful reforms,” said attorney and activist Arturo Jáuregui. “That has never worked in the past and will not work now.” Calls like this have grown for federal investigations into recent police killings across the nation since President Joe Biden took office and said he believes racial disparities in policing must change. The family of a child shot dead by police in 2014 have also recently asked the Justice Department to reopen that case. After motorist Daunte Wright was killed by a Minnesota police …

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The Justice Department is sending a strong message about its priorities these days. In just over the past two weeks, it has opened investigations of police in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis. Federal prosecutors have charged four former Minneapolis police officers with civil rights violations in George Floyd's death, and accused three men of hate crimes in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia In both criminal cases, authorities moved forward with federal charges before most of the defendants have gone to state trial. Attorney General Merrick Garland is making good on his confirmation promise to refocus the department around civil rights after four years of tumult during the Trump administration, when such investigations waned and the focus was on curbing immigration and the Russia probe. “What we couldn’t get them to do in the case of Eric Garner, Michael Brown in Ferguson, and countless others, we are finally seeing them do,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said …

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T he success of Living Single may have been unanticipated, but it was no accident. Over 25 years ago, a determined 27-year-old writer named Yvette Denise Lee (now Yvette Lee Bowser) found herself with a rare, welcome opportunity: the chance to create a show around the comic legend Kim Coles and the rap phenom Queen Latifah. Having cut her teeth writing on shows like A Different World and Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper , Lee Bowser was ready for the chance to create a world that revolved around the kinds of black characters she knew best. Over the course of its five-season run, Living Single followed the lives of six main characters, with a Brooklyn brownstone as their home and the show’s primary backdrop. Three of the women were roommates: Khadijah James (Latifah), the fearless editor of a black magazine called Flavor ; Khadijah’s bubbly cousin and assistant, Synclaire James (Coles), and a spunky, projects-raised boutique saleswoman named Regine Hunter (Kim Fields). Their …

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Published 22 April Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Related Topics George Floyd death Here's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans. 17 July 2014: Eric Garner Eric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes. While in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words "I can't breathe" 11 times. The incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted. It came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. 9 August 2014: Michael Brown Michael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was …

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Published 28 April 2015 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The US has seen a wave of protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two black men killed by white police officers. During the demonstrations, activists have highlighted other cases across the US of civilian deaths involving police. Here are some of the cases they are focusing on. Freddie Gray - Baltimore, Maryland Freddie Gray, 25, died in hospital from spinal injuries a week after police took him into custody. In mobile phone video of the arrest, Gray can be heard screaming repeatedly before a police van arrives to take him away. Police said he "suffered a medical emergency" while in the van. Gray's lawyer says that his "spine was 80% severed at his neck". Walter Scott - North Charleston, South Carolina Walter Lamer Scott, 50, was stopped for having a broken rear light on …

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Advertisement This is the moment that Kanye West abruptly ended his New York concert after learning wife Kim Kardashian West had been robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room. Video posted on social media shows the 39-year-old rapper performing “Heartless” at Meadows Music & Arts Festival before telling the production crew to stop the music. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Family emergency, I have to stop the show,” West told fans. Kardashian West was held at gunpoint early Monday morning by masked men dressed as police officers. The reality star was staying at The No Address Hotel when five men entered the through the service entrance dressed as police officers at around 3:00 a.m., according to multiple reports. The outlet reports that Kardashian West was tied up and locked in her …

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Hawthorne Elementary in Louisville, Kentucky, looks like what you might imagine a typical American suburban elementary school to be, with students’ art projects displayed in the hallways and brightly colored rugs and kid-sized tables and chairs in the classrooms. It’s located in a predominantly white neighborhood. But the students look different than those in many suburban schools across America. Some have dark skin, others wear headscarves, others are blonde and blue-eyed. While many of them qualify for free and reduced lunches, others bring handmade lunches in fancy thermal bags and come from well-off families. Ever since a court forced them to integrate in the 1970s, the city of Louisville and surrounding Jefferson County have tried to maintain diverse schools. Though the region fought the integration at first, many residents and leaders came around to the idea, and even defended it all the way up to the Supreme Court in 2006 . “Because the Metro area has a countywide system …

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