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Rand Paul talks 2016, Black Business, School Choice, Criminal Justice Reform, #BlackLivesMatter, & More

Rand Paul talks 2016, Black Business, School Choice, Criminal Justice Reform, #BlackLivesMatter, & More

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Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now for an exclusive interview in which he discussed the 2016 campaign for the White House, his plan to bolster Black-owned businesses, Social Security, poverty, education, criminal justice reform, and Black Lives Matter.

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Are We Any Closer to Police Accountability after Ferguson?

On Wednesday, the police chief in Ferguson, Mo., where tensions came to a head in August after the shooting of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, announced he would step down—a move officials called “long overdue,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

It was the latest in a string of city officials to cripple under the weight of the Department of Justice’s scathing report detailing a department and municipal court system rife with systemic racism and corrupt practices. So far, the municipal judge, city manager, top court clerk, and two police supervisors have stepped down since the report came out last week.

But as much as the report has resulted in the encouraging gutting of a corrupt department, recent headlines suggest—and indeed prove—that Ferguson is no bubble.

Despite months of acute anger, massive protests, and a searing national spotlight, March hasn’t been a great month for police-related tensions in America so far. Within the first two weeks, the shootings of multiple unarmed men have blurred together in a nauseating swirl of notifications marking a death or a protest in this city or that.

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