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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

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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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What happens when Dave Chapelle buys up your town

May 3, 2023
By Tyler J. Kelley
Bloomberg

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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

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

May 2, 2023
By Steve Karnowski
The Associated Press

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OPINION: The College Board’s secret apology

April 27, 2023
By The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal

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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

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

April 27, 2023
By Emily Wagster Pettus
The Associated Press

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Kia Breaux and her sons John, 17, right, and Jaden, 14, walk the family dog, Lucky, in their Kansas City, Mo., neighborhood, Friday, April 21, 2023. The recent shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl by an 84-year-old white man when Yarl mistakenly went to the wrong address in a nearby neighborhood has shaken many Black residents in the predominantly white region of the city. Photo credit: Charlie Riedel, The Associated Press

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FIRST PERSON: For this Black mom, Ralph Yarl could have been her son

April 25, 2023
By Kia Breaux
The Associated Press

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