Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard has officially announced 11 charges against Garrett Rolfe –  the recently fired Atlanta officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot.

After footage showed Rolfe shooting at Brooks multiple times in the back as the 27-year-old African American man attempted to flee the scene, national outrage followed with calls for the officer’s termination and indictment.

Now, those calls have been answered. Detail inside:

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With race at the center of global dialogue, brands are speedily attempting to cut ties with practices that are deemed racially insensitive.

Case in point Quaker Oaks. 

For, the food giant has announced that it’s shuttered its Aunt Jemima brand after 130 years.

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After years of criticism – most of which has heightened over the past few months in the wake of the death of Breonna Taylor – Louisville, Kentucky’s controversial “no-knock warrants” have been banned.

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Niecy Nash says that the police targeted and tasered her son.

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Met Foodmarkets, a grocery store located in Brooklyn, New York, is under fire after a video of its reported owner placing a Black shopper in a chokehold has gone viral.

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The shocking death of George Floyd has sparked international discourse about racial injustice and, more specifically, the unfair treatment of Black people.

As widely reported, Floyd was unarmed when he was reprimanded by Minnesota police; an encounter that saw him lose his life when officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.

The entire incident was caught on camera and has lit the match amongst about the necessity of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Today, Floyd is being laid to rest in Houston.

Names in attendance include: Mayor Sylvester Turner, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Rev. Al Sharpton, Attorney Benjamin Crump, Slim Thug, Leela James, Paul Wall, Floyd Mayweather, Congressman Al Green, and Bishop James Dixon.

The event is being broadcast live worldwide. Watch below…

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Kamala Harris made her way to ‘The View’ to explain how she is using her power in politics to influence change.

There, the Senator explained that it will not be easy to secure a prosecution in the George Floyd murder trial and named the politician who blocked her efforts to eradicate lynching.

It wasn’t all bad news though.

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Congressional Democrats honoured the good people of Ghana by sporting their traditional Kente attire as they unveiled police reform.

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know that he is a proud support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Find out how he put an unruly customer in their place when they criticised him for standing up for the human rights group below….

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The NFL are taking accountability.

With the globe engaged in heated dialogue about race in the wake of the death of unarmed Black man George Floyd, the National Football League has dramatically pivoted on its stance about the kneeling protest kicked off by Colin Kaepernick. 

The star quarterback hasn’t played for four years after his demand for justice during the national anthem jarred senior officials.

Now, as the gravity of racial injustice is finally becoming apparent to the masses, said top brass are admitting: “we were wrong.”

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Meghan Markle has condemned racism in a powerful, impassioned speech delivered in salute of the graduating class of her former school, Immaculate Heart.

The US actress turned British royal has been the target of vile scrutiny, which many maintain is centered around her race.

So intense was the critique that Markle and Prince Harry stepped back from their position as Senior Royals and relocated to North America.

Now, as the world engages in heated discourse about the death of unarmed Black man George Floyd at the hands of a white Minnesota police officer, Markle is using her voice and platform to speak out in support of the many affected by racial injustice.

See and hear what she had to say below…

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Moments after George Floyd‘s family attorney Benjamin Crump took to Twitter to report the arrest of the remaining ex-officers responsible for Floyd’s death (as we reported here), the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison officially announced their charges.

The public was already alerted to the arrest of Derek Chauvin (the former officer directly responsible for the death of Floyd) as his third-degree murder charge was upgraded to second-degree murder.

Likewise, the three other officers who were fired alongside him – Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng – went from uncharged to charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder, according to court documents.

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