
Melissa Hellmann
Race and Equity Senior Reporter, Guardian US at The Guardian
Race and equity senior reporter @guardian. Past: @publicintegrity @Seattletimes, @seattleweekly @yesmagazine, @AP, etc. 📧 [email protected]
Articles
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Melissa Hellmann
Illustration: Guardian Design Last May, Roger Floyd and Thomas McLaurin walked the lengths of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, passing a roundabout with a garden, and a vacant gas station with a large sign that read: “Where there’s people there’s power.” Though it had been four years since the murder of George Floyd, their nephew and cousin, respectively, concrete barriers erected by the city to protect the area still cordoned off the corner of the street where he was killed by...
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Melissa Hellmann
Protesters march in downtown Brooklyn over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer on June 05, 2020 in New York City. The white police officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder and the three other officers who participated in the arrest have been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Melissa Hellmann
Over the first two days of May, a total of six Swarthmore College students were interim suspended for the creation of a campus encampment earlier in the week. The students in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, were suspended without due process and were told to evacuate from campus, said Swarthmore’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in a 2 May statement.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Melissa Hellmann
EK was completing a take-home exam on 6 March when the dean of student conduct at Swarthmore College emailed her about an urgent Zoom meeting. On the video call, she said, the dean told her that she would be suspended for one semester for staging a protest at the college’s trustees’ dinner in December 2023. Using a bullhorn, EK had interrupted the event to demand that the school divest from products that fuel Israel’s war on Gaza.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Melissa Hellmann
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