Graham Lee Brewer

May 7, 2025 at 10:29 pm

Civil rights leaders say acquittals in Tyre Nichols’ death highlight the need for police reform VIEW

After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders are expressing outrage over another...

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May 3, 2025 at 7:28 am

Indigenous activists see Trump’s Columbus Day rhetoric as cause for continued advocacy

President Donald Trump has announced he won't recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and will bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes” — another sign some Native...

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April 22, 2025 at 6:05 am

Federal report due on Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina’s path to recognition as a tribal nation VIEW

Members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are awaiting the release of a Department of the Interior report that could light a path for...

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April 14, 2025 at 4:44 pm

PepsiCo agrees to meet with Al Sharpton over DEI cuts, potential boycott

Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has agreed to meet this week with civil rights advocates from the National Action Network to discuss the company’s recent...

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April 12, 2025 at 3:20 pm

RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US tribes. A key program to do that was gutted VIEW

A key program using traditional medicine and foods to tackle chronic disease in Native American and Alaska Native communities has been gutted in the federal...

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April 4, 2025 at 4:04 pm

Al Sharpton calls on PepsiCo to restore DEI initiatives, threatens boycott

The Rev. Al Sharpton has written to the CEO of PepsiCo giving the company three weeks to meet with him — or suffer a boycott...

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March 7, 2025 at 7:18 pm

Tribes and Native American students sue over Bureau of Indian Education firings

Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it...

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March 6, 2025 at 4:03 pm

Tribal nations are concerned that Trump’s cuts have the potential to violate trust responsibilities

Tribal leaders across the United States are scrambling to respond to a directive from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to close more than a...

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February 28, 2025 at 5:55 pm

Native American activist Leonard Peltier maintains his innocence, vows continued activism WATCH

More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant.

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February 17, 2025 at 9:03 pm

Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden commuted his sentence in the killing of two FBI agents VIEW

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life...

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