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A group of several hundred people protest the death of Jordan Neely, Friday, May 5, 2023, at Washington Square Park in New York. Neely, a locally-known Michael Jackson impersonator who friends say suffered from worsening mental health, died Monday, May 1, when Daniel Penny, a fellow subway rider, pulled him to the floor and pinned him with a hold taught in Marine combat training. Photo credit: Brooke Lansdale, The Associated Press

National

Man who choked NYC subway passenger to death will face manslaughter charge, prosecutors say

May 11, 2023
By Jake Offenhartz & Michael R. Sisak
The Associated Press

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Missy Elliot, the late Don Cornelius and Chaka Khan (left to right) were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Photo credit: Donald Trail, Invision/The Associated Press; Damian Dovarganes, The Associated Press; Evan Agostini, Invision/The Associated Press.

Arts & culture

Missy Elliot, Don Cornelius, Chaka Khan among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees

May 4, 2023
By Mark Kennedy
The Associated Press

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New York police officers respond to the scene where a fight was reported on a subway train on Monday, May 1, 2023, in New York. A man suffering an apparent mental health episode aboard a subway died on Monday after being placed in a headlock by a fellow rider, according to police officials and video of the encounter. Jordan Neely, 30, was shouting and pacing aboard a train in Manhattan, witnesses and police said, when he was taken to the floor by another passenger. Photo credit: Paul Martinka, The Associated Press

National

Man dies after being placed in a chokehold by a subway rider

May 4, 2023
By Jake Offenhartz & Bobby Caina Calvan
The Associated Press

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In this screen grab from video, former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao appears at the scene where George Floyd died at the hands of former police officer Derek Chauvin, on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn. Thao, who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd, was found guilty on Monday, May 1, 2023 of aiding and abetting manslaughter. Photo credit: Court TV via AP, pool

National

Ex-officer Thao convicted of aiding George Floyd’s killing

May 2, 2023
By Steve Karnowski
The Associated Press

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Flowers are placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of actor/singer/activist Harry Belafonte on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Los Angeles. The civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96. Photo credit: Damian Dovarganes, The Associated Press

Arts & culture

Harry Belafonte mourned by entertainment world, Biden, Obama

April 27, 2023
By The Associated Press
NABJ Black News & Views

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This 1955 file photo shows then former Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 died April 25 in hospice care in Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana. She was 88. Photo credit: Gene Herrick, The Associated Press

National

Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

April 27, 2023
By Emily Wagster Pettus
The Associated Press

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