Jamilah Lemieux

Ebony.com

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Writer and senior digital editor at Ebony.com, she started the Twitter hashtag "#Alive While Black"

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The coroner in Waller County, Texas called it a jailhouse suicide, but authorities are investigating it as a case of murder.

Was Sandra Bland's Only Crime 'Contempt of Cop?'

The coroner in Waller County, Texas called it a jailhouse suicide, but authorities are investigating it as a case of murder.

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Since white police officers recently killed unarmed black men and boys in New York, Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri, street protests have continued around the country and put…

Fear and Bias from the Streets to the Courtroom

Since white police officers recently killed unarmed black men and boys in New York, Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri, street protests have continued around the country and put…

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