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Black-owned businesses see spike in sales amid racism protests – National

When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his seven-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favour of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. At Spokehouse, a bike shop… Read More »Black-owned businesses see spike in sales amid racism protests – National

George Floyd’s death still a homicide despite evidence of medical issues: experts – National

George Floyd had drugs in his system and severe heart disease when a Minneapolis police officer put a knee to his neck, but independent experts said the medical problems revealed in the full autopsy report don’t change the conclusion that the handcuffed man’s death was… Read More »George Floyd’s death still a homicide despite evidence of medical issues: experts – National

From police shootings to protests over anti-Black racism: Toronto’s last three decades of racial controversy

The falling death of Afro-Indigenous woman Regis Korchinski-Paquet in the presence of police officers is sparking outrage and protest in Toronto as cities across the U.S. have meanwhile erupted in several days of anger over the shocking death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man… Read More »From police shootings to protests over anti-Black racism: Toronto’s last three decades of racial controversy