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Rally Held for DeKalb Police Killing of Anthony Hill (UPDATE 1)

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(APN) DECATUR — On Wednesday night, March 11, 2015, approximately two hundred people marched through the streets of Decatur and held sit-ins stopping traffic, as they protested the killing of Anthony Hill.   For the second time in less than eleven weeks, DeKalb police have shot and killed another innocent Black man   This time, they shot a naked, unarmed veteran […]

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Hunger Strike at Stewart Detention Ends in Pepper Spray, Lock Down

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(APN) ATLANTA — Hundreds of Inmates at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia staged a hunger strike because of deplorable conditions at the Center.   It began last week when inmates refused to eat spoiled food with maggots in the beans and instead threw the food away. “They were locked up and pepper sprayed because of the hunger strike, that’s why […]

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