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Activist, Erica Garner, the eldest daughter of the man who died from a police choke hold in New York in 2014, died on Saturday morning days after suffering a heart attack, according to her mother, Esaw Snipes. “She was a fighter, she was a warrior and she lost the battle,” Snipes said of her daughter. […]

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Newly revealed emails suggest that undercover NYPD officers compromised and reported on demonstrations surrounding Eric Garner's death.

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Since filming Eric Garner's death in July 2014, Ramsey Orta's life has changed in ways he couldn't imagine – mostly for the worse.

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President Barack Obama is receiving a lot of heat following The President and the People town hall that broadcast across all of the Disney networks on Thursday night. Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner – the man killed by an illegal chokehold in 2014 – expressed her disappointment with the town hall on race via social media. In one […]

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The man who recorded the police chokehold killing of Eric Garner will plead guilty to drug and weapon charges. He believes law enforcement has targeted him.

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The family of slain Staten Island man Eric Garner received a $1 million settlement from the area hospital that dispatched paramedics to the scene of his fatal encounter with police. In court documents obtained by the Associated Press, the details of the settlement were initially confidential and not part of an earlier settlement the family […]

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Emery Snipes was stopped by NYPD officers for riding the bike against traffic and entering a park after dark in lower Manhattan.

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Shaun King, a racial justice activist, denied that he told a false story about being the victim of an attack tied to racism.

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"When you see our ancestor...we are reminded that Ethiopians, Americans, all the people of the world are part of the same human family," Obama said.

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It is powerful to see the mothers of these slain sons standing together.

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Eric Garner, whose high-profile death was captured on a cell phone video that helped to spark a national movement against police violence, is buried in…