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National Guard troops in LA mark latest in long history of deployments during civil rights protests

June 11, 2025
By Saffiyah Riddle, Charlotte Kramon, & Matt Brown
The Associated Press/Report for America

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore chats with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the 2025 National Action Network conference in New York on April 3, 2025. Photo credit: Maryland Governor's Office

Culture Politics

Black Democrats, progressives pledge defiance against Trump policies during NYC meeting

April 11, 2025
By Jason Ponterotto
NABJ Black News & Views

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Amara Harris fist bumps her attorney, Juan Thomas, in August after being found not liable for theft of AirPods at Naperville North High School. Photo credit: Taylor Glascock, special to ProPublica

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Ticketed at school as a teen, a young Black woman is suing an Illinois city for violating her civil rights

May 28, 2024
By Jodi S. Cohen & Jennifer Smith Richards
ProPublica

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Black Lives Matter protesters march through Portland, Oregon, after rallying at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. Protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches and disruptions are hallmarks of American history. Photo credit: Noah Berger, The Associated Press

National

The American paradox of protest: Celebrated and condemned, welcomed and muzzled

May 8, 2024
By The Associated Press
NABJ Black News & Views

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The Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III, left, greets the Rev. Jesse Jackson before speaking in Dallas, late Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Haynes is stepping down less than three months after assuming the leadership role of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the civil rights group founded by Jackson in the 1970s. Photo credit: LM Otero, The Associated Press

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Rainbow PUSH leader’s quick exit underscores challenge of following Jesse Jackson: ‘It’s the most difficult job in Black America’

April 19, 2024
By The Chicago Sun-Times
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Then-Vice President Joe Biden and late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, March 3, 2013. Photo credit: Dave Martin, The Associated Press

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PERSPECTIVE: On anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday,’ those continuing John Lewis’ legacy ask Biden to keep faith in ‘State of the Union’

March 7, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
NABJ Black News & Views

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