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In wake of tragic bridge collapse, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says: ‘All of our hearts are broken.’

March 26, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Opal Lee, left, applauds during a ceremony before raising the first wall to her new home on her family's former lot in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Lee, one of the driving forces behind Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, attended a ceremony to watch as the walls are raised on new home. In 1939, a racist mob drove her family out of their home. Photo credit: Amanda McCoy , Star-Telegram via The Associated Press

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85 years after a racist mob drove Opal Lee’s family away, the Juneteenth advocate is getting a new home on the same spot

March 26, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
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Michael Corey Jenkins, left, and Eddie Terrell Parker walk toward the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, for sentencing of the fifth of the six former Mississippi Rankin County law enforcement officers who committed numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture on them in 2023. The six former law officers pleaded guilty to a number of federal charges for torturing the two Black men and their sentencing began Tuesday in federal court. Photo credit: Rogelio V. Solis, The Associated Press

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White former officers get sentences of 10 to 40 years in torture of 2 Black men in Mississippi

March 22, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Former President Barack Obama leaves after a courtesy visit to 10 Downing Street in London on Monday, March 18, 2024. Photo credit: Alastair Grant, The Associated Press

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Italian-American leader in Chicago protests proposal to rename Columbus Drive after Barack Obama

March 21, 2024
By The Chicago Sun-Times
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This combination of photos shows, from top left, former Rankin County sheriff's deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield appearing at the Rankin County Circuit Court in Brandon, Mississippi, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men were sentenced by a state judge Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Photo credit: Rogelio V. Solis, The Associated Press

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3rd of 6 former officers in Mississippi gets 17.5 years for racist torture of 2 Black men

March 20, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Two girls look out the window of a Freedom School. Photo credit: Ken Thompson, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries

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As Florida blocks Black history education, parents, allies turn to Black churches, resurrection of Freedom Schools

February 29, 2024
By Fern Gillespie
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