Minnesota launches its first office for missing and murdered Black women.
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** Minnesota launches its first office for missing and murdered Black women.
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This year, Minnesota enacted a law creating the nation's first Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls to address the disparity in resources and police focus on cases involving minority women.
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** Senate passes Biden-McCarthy debt deal
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The Senate passed the debt limit bill in a 63-to-36 vote. The bipartisan legislation, which will suspend the debt limit and impose new spending caps, is not heading to President Biden to sign.
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** Mexico's President backs peace agreement with cartels
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Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has publicly supported an open letter to 10 organized crime groups, calling for an end to forced disappearances.
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** NJ state attorney takes control of police department
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NJ Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin has assumed direct control of the day-to-day operations of the town of Paterson's local police department. The move comes three weeks after police shot violence intervention activist Najee Seabooks.
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** All the Memes Fit to Post
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** And, In The End...
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Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. In the U.S., there were over 393 million firearms in civilian possession in 2017 — or 120 per 100 persons, the highest rate globally.
—Emma Kansiz
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