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Internetgiant Google has pledged to donate $11.5 million in grants to four organizations combating racial disparities in the criminal justice system. While Google would not phrase their grants in this way, one of the recipients has praised the Black Lives Matter movement as "civil rights demonstrations," andthe cause of these organizations does overlap with the Black Lives Matter movement.

"There is significant ambiguity regarding the extent of racial bias in policing and criminal sentencing," Justin Steele, principal with Google.org, the company's philanthropic arm, told USA Today. "We must find ways to improve the accessibility and usefulness of information."

Steele presented the grants as a way to quantify the racial disparity in the justice system. It is hard to know the full extent to which black people are treated differently than white people. Even South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott has sharedpersonal stories of "frustration" with cops, in the nation's capital!

"It's hard to measure justice," Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder and president at the Center for Policing Equity (which will receive $5 million, the largest share of Google's grants), told USA Today. "In policing, data are so sparse and they are not shared broadly. The National Justice Database is an attempt to measure justice so that people who want to do the right thing can use that metric to lay out a GPS for getting where we are trying to go. That's really what we see Google as being a key partner in helping us do."

Naturally, USA Today had to report that Google "is trying to address the racial imbalance in the demographics of its workforce. Hispanics make up 3% of Google employees and African Americans 2%." USA Today likely omitted the number of whites (61 percent), because the number of Asians (30 percent) is so high, according to a 2014 PBS report.

But rather than confirming a racial bias against minorities, the fact that Google, a majority-white company, is nevertheless heavily subsidizing efforts to quantifyracial disparities in criminal justice should be heartening, especially to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Indeed, one of the groups Google is supporting, the Equal Justice Initiative, explicitly endorsed Black Lives Matter in one of its videos, calling the group "civil rights demonstrators." That video linked slavery to mass incarceration, lamenting that "many states celebrate the era of slavery with Confederate holidays and by honoring the defenders and architects of slavery, while ignoring the history of enslavement."

This is a horrifying insult to all those who commemorate the Civil War and view the battle as a fight over states' rights. While I consider their viewpoints incorrect, I do not dismiss as racist those who commemoratethe Confederacy, and neither should the Equal Justice Initiative.

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CEDAR FALLS Some say they are colorblind when it comes to issues of race.

But in the era of Black Lives Matter, Rasheed Ali Cromwell questions if anyone can truly claim they dont notice or arent influenced by the color of another persons skin. The fact that we have to say black lives matter in and of itself means that its an issue, he told the audience at the African-American Children & Families Conference Friday.

Cromwell was the keynote speaker during the day-long conference at the University of Northern Iowa. The founder and president of the The Harbor Institute, an educational consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, earned a law degree from Texas Southern University. In the past, he was an attorney with the Washington law firm Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner and a law clerk with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas in Houston.

Black Lives Matter is a movement that emerged during recent years in response to the deaths of a number of African-American men across the U.S., often at the hand of police officers. The increased racial tensions seen since that time strain the idea of a colorblind society, in Cromwells view.

They dont see color. Thats an interesting concept, he said. By saying I dont see color, youre saying I dont see a part of you and where youre coming from.

He believes the colorblind concept is a misunderstanding of the Martin Luther King Jr. quote expressing hope that black people like the civil rights leaders then-young children would someday not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Its about what you relate to what you see, said Cromwell, rather than not noticing skin color. Everyone has their own prejudices. Whats most important is how people deal with them, he added.

After slavery ended in the U.S., racism was institutionalized through segregationist policies that were reinforced by the courts, in some cases until the 1950s and 60s. Cromwell showed some examples of how that bias has been reflected in media and advertising during the past century. Those included a montage of clips from D.W. Griffiths racist 1915 silent movie The Birth of a Nation and various offensive depictions of black people in product advertising through the decades.

For Cromwell, that all points back to the need for the movement around Black Lives Matter. Its an issue because for so long American society said they dont, he contended.

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Nothing is off-limits forLeslie Jonesstand-up routine.

If I see another 45-year-old white woman from Williamsburg saying black lives matter, Im going to punch you in the mouth, the Saturday Night Live starsaid during her recent four-night stint at New York comedy club, Carolines on Broadway. Stop doing that.

Not one black woman out there, she said of the marches. Black woman at home watching Housewives of Atlanta.

In August,nude photos of Jones were leaked on her personal website. She laughed off the hacking scandal during her routine, explaining that although it was hard to explain to her relatives, shed been trying to send out pics of herself in her birthday suit.

You really just helped a sister out. Thank you for the distribution, she said.

Currently single, the Ghostbusters actressalso blames the president on the lack of love in her life.

I want to be in love, she said. I want to do that, but its 2017, and we got a pig in office. The world is about to end.

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Delaware County Community College this week hosted, Law, Order and the Black Lives Matter Movement,a symposium that explored issues surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, such as police brutality, white privilege, stereotypes, the militarization of some municipal police forces, justifiable use of force, police officer safety and more.

The symposium, which took place at the schools Marple campus in Media, was moderated by KYW Newsradio reporter Cherri Gregg and featured panelists John Whelan, Delaware County district attorney; Reggie Shuford, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania; Ramona Palmerio-Roberts, associate professor, psychology, Neumann University; and Jennifer Wyse, assistant professor of sociology, Widener University.

About 100 students, faculty, administrators, staff and guests attended the event, sponsored by the colleges Black and Latino Male Empowerment Initiative, a group led by faculty, administrators and staff that seeks to enhance and improve diversity at the College through insightful programs, mentoring and other activities, according to a news release.

Gregg, who also is an attorney, utilized several short video clips of fatal and near-fatal incidents involving confrontations between police and citizens, both white and Black, to help explore the issues.

The panel examined issues of justice, equality, equity, and the impact of police body cameras, cell phone video, social media and the internet on community-police relations.

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Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2017, 7:43 AM

A Black Lives Matter leader in Charleston was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct Wednesday after trying to snatch a Confederate battle flag at a protest and getting caught on live TV.

Protesters gathered outside the College of Charleston during a speech by Bree Newsome, the filmmaker and activist who famously climbed a flagpole outside the South Carolina State House and took down its Confederate flag. The South Carolina Secessionist Party planned to demonstrate against the event.

Videos from the scene show one white protester, behind yellow police tape, hoisting a large Confederate flag as people off camera taunt him for having no friends.

Muhiyidin Elamin Moye a Black Lives Matter leader who goes by Muhiyidin dBaha is then seen jumping the police tape and grabbing the flag in mid-air, right in front of a live news camera.

Dozens gather to mark two-year anniversary of weekly BLM protests

He appears to try running away with the flag as an immediate uproar breaks out.

Police later told the Post and Courier that Moye, 31, was charged.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), one of several activist groups that had counter-protesters at the event, created a crowdfunding page on Donox Box to raise $6,000 for Moyes bail.

HELP BAIL MUHIYYIDIN OUT!...It is dangerous for a PoC (Person of Color) to spend the night in jail, the page says.

After a white supremacist gunned down nine parishioners at a Charleston black church in 2015, the city became the center of a national movement to remove public displays of the Confederate flag.

Newsome herself was arrested for her State House stunt, which happened just days after the church shooting.

The State House put the flag back up, but South Carolina pols voted just weeks later to take down the flag for good.

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