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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
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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

National

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

Politics

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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Arts & culture

‘They were obsessed with ice cream,’ and other tidbits filmmakers of dual biography ‘Genius: MLK/X’ learned about Martin Luther King and Malcolm X

February 8, 2024
By Carla Hay
NABJ Black News & Views

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Students walk through a gate at Harvard University Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. Photo credit: Michael Casey, The Associated Press.

National

Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard

July 5, 2023
By Collin Binkley
The Associated Press

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