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Chantemekki Fortson, mother of Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force airman, holds a photo of her son during a news conference regarding his death, along with family and attorney Ben Crump, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Fortson was shot and killed by police in his apartment on on May 3, 2024. Photo credit: Gerald Herbert, The Associated Press

National

Video released in fatal law enforcement shooting of Black U.S. Air Force airman

May 9, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Left to right: The Rev. Al Sharpton, Vice President Kamala Harris, civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, and Douglas Emhoff, second gentleman of the United States, walk with hundreds of people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Selma, Alabama. Photo credit: Mike Stewart, The Associated Press

Politics

Kamala Harris leads Bloody Sunday memorial in Selma as marchers call for voting rights

March 4, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, speaking, stands with relatives of the victims of the May 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, along with their lawyers. All took part in a press conference in Buffalo on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Relatives of the victims of last year's mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market announced Wednesday they are suing the social media sites, weapons retailers and others who they say “loaded the gun” that convicted assailant Payton Gendron in the attack fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online. Photo credit: Libby March, The Buffalo News via The Associated Press

National

Lawyer Crump targets social media companies, gun maker in complaint tied to Buffalo mass shooting

July 13, 2023
By Nanette D. Massey
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Pamela Dias, the mother of Ajike Owens, center, makes a statement with Rev. Al Sharpton, left, and civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, right, during the funeral for Owens on Monday, June 12, 2023, at Meadowbrook Church in Ocala, Florida. Owens was fatally shot by her neighbor, Susan Lorincz, when she went to Lorincz's door. Lorincz was arrested and charged in the shooting. Photo credit: Alan Youngblood, The Associated Press

National

Ajike Owens, Florida mother of 4 shot by neighbor, laid to rest

June 15, 2023
By Melanie Eversley
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Dinwiddie County Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Virginia. Photo credit: OZinOH

Social Justice

7 sheriff’s deputies charged with murder of Black Virginia man

March 17, 2023
By Sarah Rankin
The Associated Press

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Family members and supporters hold a photograph of Tyre Nichols at a news conference in Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 23, 2023. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, that the federal investigation into the death of a Black man who died after a violent arrest by Memphis police “may take some time.” Speaking during a news conference, U.S. Attorney Kevin G. Ritz said his office is working with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in Washington as it investigates the case of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after his January 7 arrest. Photo credit: Gerald Herbert

National

Memphis anticipates release of video in Tyre Nichols’ arrest

January 27, 2023
By Adrian Sainz
The Associated Press

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