The current racial climate will make this Friday a 'Juneteenth like no other,' says Karlos Hill, professor of African American studies at the University of Oklahoma.
First Amendment: Freedom of religion, speech, the press, peaceful assembly and petitioning the governmentKeith Boykin
Boykin, 54, said he alerted the police that he was the press. Moments later, officers arrested him, placing zip ties around his wrist. Boykin said police transported him to a New York jail where he sat for four hours. He was cited for blocking traffic and disorderly conduct.Boykin said he believes the police targeted him because he's a Black man.
Zakiya Mims, a Black woman from Atlanta, said she waited in line for more than three hours at a predominately Black polling place after poll workers reported an issue with voting machines in November 2018. This polling place in Fulton County, she said, had been combined with another precinct yet there were fewer voting machines.
“I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” Amy Cooper is heard saying in the video. Richard Willock is suing the Hilton after a stay at Hampton Inn and Suites in Nashville in October 2018 where he says a white female employee racially profiled him.
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