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A bronze statue of legendary baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson was stolen from a park in Wichita, Kansas, during the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The statue, valued at $75,000, was the centerpiece of the League 42 ballpark facility, a baseball league started in 2015 to help kids with little access to organized sports. The league currently has 600 kids signed up to play this spring. Wichita police said during a Friday news conference that they are working desperately to catch the thieves. Photo credit: Travis Heying, The Wichita Eagle via The Associated Press

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Burned remnants of prized Jackie Robinson statue found after theft from public park in Kansas

January 31, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Elmore Nickleberry in 2008 holding a replica of a sign from the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Photo credit: Carl Juste

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Elmore Nickleberry, sanitation worker in ’68 Memphis strike, dies at 92

January 25, 2024
By Steven Greenhouse
The Tennessee Tribune

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This photo provided by Monica Graham shows Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey, right, as she poses for a selfie with her friend, Graham, in October 2023 during homecoming at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Candia-Bailey's suicide on Jan. 8, 2024, led to the president of the historically Black college to agree to be placed on paid leave amid reports that he bullied her. Graduates of the school are demanding that he be terminated. Photo credit: Monica Graham via The Associated Press

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Historically Black Missouri college in turmoil after administrator who alleged bullying took her own life

January 24, 2024
By Heather Hollingsworth & Summer Ballentine
The Associated Press

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Dexter King, son of the the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at a news conference in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 28, 1994. The King Center in Atlanta said the 62-year-old son of the civil rights leader died Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, at his California home after battling prostate cancer. Photo credit: Leita Cowart, The Associated Press

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Dexter Scott King, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies of prostate cancer at age 62

January 22, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
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Spelman College, Atlanta. Photo credit: Spelman College

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HBCU Spelman College receives $100 million donation, highest in college’s history

January 19, 2024
By Ahjané Forbes
USA Today

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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, left, and Baltimore Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Worley walk to a news conference in the Shipley Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, May 11, 2023. The Baltimore Police Department has reached compliance with two sections of its court-ordered reform agreement — including a piece that governs transportation of people in custody, which landed the agency under federal oversight in the first place following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray. Photo credit: Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via The Associated Press

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Baltimore police make progress in court-ordered reform

January 18, 2024
By The Associated Press
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