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"Looking at the map today, this history of segregation is clear. Whites and Hispanics primarily live south of the Miami River, East of the Flagler Railroad, and in Hialeah. Non-whites live West of the Flagler Railroad, North of the Miami River, and East of Hialeah. " Written on Miami Grid by Shaan Pantel

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this is a segregated waiting room at a railroad depot

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this is a image from 1937, this is where a former slave named George Carson lived after coming to Florida in 1875

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people where protesting because they wouldn't let black people vote because of their skin color this was in march 1965.

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Turner Guillford knight research found on "Best places" 

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A dominately black school that is across the street from a prison raises the question would they have allowed a school to be here if it was a white school?

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Martin Luther King jr. I had a dream speech made history in African American lives. He gave hope that one day African Americans world wide would not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character.

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Segregation separated white people and black people in bathrooms, water fountains, schools, and restaurants.

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White police officer murders a black teenager brutally and only gets 6 years of jail but when a black man spits on a police officer he gets 70 years of jail. Racism at its finest.

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"Colored town has a rich history, hosting luminaries such as Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali, and Ella Fitzgerald. In the 1920s, NW 2nd Ave, the street that ran through the heart of colored town, was dubbed “little broadway” because of the many high profile performances it hosted."

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In 1896, during the founding of Miami, The charter was required to designate colored sections of Florida.

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Due to restrictive covenants, Colored Town and Coconut Grove remained the only places black people could live until the late 1930s.

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On March 5, a white man named Frank Tumm allegedly whipped out a shotgun and threatened to shoot the "burnt black-a** face" off of Dyma Loving, a 26-year-old South Dade resident who lived nearby. Loving, naturally, then tried to alert police. But in a video clip that later became national news, Miami-Dade cops were filmed violently tackling Loving to the ground, even though she'd clearly done nothing wrong.

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Lawyers May Face Discipline for Criticizing a Judge's Ruling in Discrimination Case

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Lawyers May Face Discipline for Criticizing a Judge's Ruling in Discrimination Case

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In Federal Challenge to Mississippi Law, Arguments Focus on Racial Discrimination and Public Safety

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In Federal Challenge to Mississippi Law, Arguments Focus on Racial Discrimination and Public Safety

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Titles that come up on multiple sites (youtube, instagram, websites online)

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Haley Accuses Biden of Giving 'Offensive' Speech at the Church Where Racist Mass Shooting Occurred

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Haley Accuses Biden of Giving 'Offensive' Speech at the Church Where Racist Mass Shooting Occurred

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Racial conflicts come up on the news consistently.

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Racism Pervades College Sports. It’s Taking An Alarming Toll On Athletes.

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Racism Pervades College Sports. It’s Taking An Alarming Toll On Athletes.

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"“Raise your hand if you play a sport,” one presenter prompted, before diving into the panel discussion. He told the crowd to keep them raised if they attended a predominantly white institution, then asked if they’d ever experienced imposter syndrome, or unfounded feelings of incompetence and self-doubt.

“Keep them raised if your institution makes an effort to support Black student athletes.”

Nearly all the hands that had still been floating above the crowd dropped in an instant, along with the mood in the room." written by Margo Snipe on "CAPITAL B"

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the 6th leading cause of death for black men is use of police force

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the 6th leading cause of death for black men is use of police force

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Black people getting treated right in the future

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Black people getting treated right in the future

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In the future I imagine people treating black people the way they are suppose to be treated because they also have feelings.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/how-to-support-racial-justice-black-americans/

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I imagine a future where people are known for what they do, who they are, rather than what they look like.

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In the future I imagine a better future with unity between African American and white people. Where we can live together as friends instead of enemies.

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In the future I imagine that more people that are not the same color will like to protest on the ones that are not being treated well because maybe they have kids that are black and they get bullied for being black so that's why they should protest but I think that in the future more people would be protesting .

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In the future I imagine a were your not racism is gone. Where children of color are not born in a society filled of inequality instead a society of unity.

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In the future I imagine people helping each other out even though they are not the same color they should stand up for each other and defend them if they are being made fun off.

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I imagine a better future where law enforcement does not have discriminations against black people. Where in the news you do not see deaths against black people from police.

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Brutal shooting and deaths of black people by law enforcements such as police that need to stop. It is a huge problem in the present because of attacks made because of discrimination.

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The US must move beyond piecemeal reform and slogan-making and tackle the ongoing scourge of police brutality and law enforcement's discrimination against Black people, a United Nations mission has concluded at the end of a historic two-week tour of the country.

UN experts completed their first official visit to the US as part of a system of global inquiries set up by the human rights council after the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020. As they ended their tour on Friday in Washington DC, the experts called for a nationwide commitment to address discrimination suffered by Black Americans in their daily dealings with the law.

"In the US, racial inequity dates back to the very creation of this country and there'll be no quick fixes," said Dr Tracie Keesee, one of two independent UN experts who conducted the visit. "To this day, racial discrimination permeates through encounters with law enforcement - from first contact, arrest, detention, sentencing and disenfranchisement."

What was needed was a "whole government approach", Keesee added. "This needs to be more than a slogan and calls for reform."

In the course of their 15-day mission Keesee and Juan Méndez of Argentina, visited six US cities: Washington, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York. Their mission was to investigate excessive use of force, militarised policing, racial profiling and other human rights violations by law enforcement and penal agencies against Black Americans.

As they crisscrossed the country, the experts had emotional encounters with families of the victims of police killings and other law enforcement abuses. In Minneapolis, where a white police officer murdered George Floyd on 25 May 2020, the panel spent time with the mothers of Philando Castile and Amir Locke, who were also killed by law enforcement in the city.

Locke's mother, Karen Wells, told the visiting experts: "You are probably wondering, why is there an empty chair right here? Because that's where Amir should be sitting. All of the families now have an empty chair."

Presenting their preliminary findings, Keesee said that they had witnessed a pattern that could be traced to what she called the "deep intrinsic legacy" of slavery and legalized discrimination. She said that across the country there remained "a lack of awareness and acknowledgment of the extent to which racial inequities" were still prevalent.

The result was a "culminating exhaustion in the Black community", the UN expert said.

Méndez, a former UN special rapporteur on torture, said that he had been moved throughout the visit by the "harrowing pain of victims and their families, and the resounding calls for accountability".

"We support those calls for accountability," Méndez said.

He was heartened by successful prosecutions of police officers involved in high-profile killings such as that of Floyd. However, many more cases remained unresolved, suggesting a continuing degree of impunity.

Méndez added that their mission would be calling on the US justice department to make "more serious and proactive" use of its powers through consent decrees to intervene in the inner workings of local police departments to address some of the most egregious abuses. "More robust government action is needed," he said.

The UN experts will present their final report to the human rights council in Geneva in September or October. They indicated that among the demands they are likely to make is a call for better nationwide data and record keeping.

In the absence of a national database, Méndez said, police officers who had complaints of misconduct or excessive force filed against them were allowed to continue serving, in some cases going on to be involved in killings of Black people. He added: "The mechanism also received allegations of police officers who were previously guilty and or disciplined for misconduct, afterwards being hired by a different police department."

Among other likely demands signaled by the experts were:

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The completed visit marks an intensification in the UN's focus on racial justice in America in the aftermath of the Floyd killing and the summer of protests it triggered across the US and around the world. A year after Floyd died, the then UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, lamented what she called the "insufficient" steps taken in the US to "stop people of African descent from being killed".

Protesters march through in Times Square, New York, on 7 June 2020, following the killing of George Floyd. Photograph: Ira L Black/Corbis/Getty Images

Fatal police shootings affecting all races and ethnicities have continued unabated since the summer of Black Lives Matter protests. The average still runs at a rate of almost three people daily.

In April 2021, the human rights council set up what it called the Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in law enforcement (EMLER). It is part of a network of independent UN experts and monitors used to cajole governments to do more to address human rights violations in their territories.

Though they have no powers to enforce their findings, UN experts have shown themselves able to profoundly influence domestic political debate, especially within the US. In June 2018, the Donald Trump White House's then ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, pulled the US out of membership of the human rights council, complaining that it was a "cesspool of political bias".

Haley, who is currently vying with Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, made her move just days before the UN monitor on extreme poverty delivered a withering report on US deprivation after a similar two-week tour of the country. In October 2021, the Joe Biden White House reversed course, re-entering the US into the human rights council.

Keesee and Méndez's visit has already sparked debate within the US over unaddressed police brutality. Minnesota's Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar told the Guardian after the experts' stopover in Minneapolis that "state-sanctioned violence" against Black people "continues to happen at the same rate, if not higher".

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US must tackle police brutality against Black people head-on, UN experts say

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Historic two-week tour of US ends with call for nationwide commitment to address racial discrimination in dealings with law

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As a diverse community Miami has suffered from racism. These issues that we see on the news almost every week cause a split in our community. They cause us to lose trust in each other, to live in fear. Racial discrimination is found on the news, schools, sports, and many other places.