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Protesters ended up torching many black-owned businesses when they went on a rampage over the weekend in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after police shot Jacob Blake, who is black. “Arsonists set buildings ablaze and torched much of the Black business district in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a second night of unrest sparked by the wounding of a Black man shot in the back by police as his three young sons looked on,” Reuters reported on Tuesday. It continued: Local police, who had support from National Guard troops, fired tear gas, rubber bullets and smoke bombs to disperse the crowd, which grew to several...

The crowd outside Nini’s Deli was starting to thin Sunday afternoon as Justin Starns watched his friend add more spray paint to the plywood boarding up the restaurant: “BLM,” in all caps, in baby blue. He was taken by surprise, he said, when a black woman walked up and demanded to know: “Oh, is that for me? Does my life matter?” (snip) an unusual confrontation took place in West Town: Two black women, who only identified themselves as Bevelyn and Edmee, denounced the Black Lives Matter movement as demonic and fraudulent before a group of mostly white and Latino demonstrators....

I sat in disbelief as the news continued to report on the tragic occasion where 21 of my fellow Chicagoans lost their lives early Monday morning. What should have been a joyous Presidents' Day holiday was spent by many in Chicago's African-American neighborhoods as a day of mourning, a day of grief, and a day of asking why. The facts are these. For some time the owners of the club where the tragedy occurred have been under a court order to not operate the second floor of the their two-story restaurant/club facility. In spite of this, promoters, event organizers and...