Race

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Key buildings the first Black Marines used will be restored thanks to a new project

4:41pm July 18, 2022

by Jay Price

Key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base in North Carolina are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, which were used by the first Black Marines, trained roughly 20,000 men.

People stand in the parking lot of the Tops Friendly Market last week in Buffalo, N.Y., last week.

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The Buffalo supermarket shooter pleads not guilty to federal charges

12:16pm July 18, 2022

by The Associated Press

The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting was arraigned Monday on federal hate crime charges that could be punishable by the death penalty.

The view from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The mountain is the tallest peak in the park and sits on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. It's sacred to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who hope to see the name of the mou

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Cherokee tribe supports renaming Clingmans Dome in Smoky Mountains National Park

4:50pm July 17, 2022

by Dustin Jones

The Cherokee Indians referred to the mountain as Kuwahi for hundreds of years, long before it was dubbed Clingmans Dome in 1859.

Education

The pandemic widened the education gap for students of color

8:52am July 17, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Test scores of Latino students fell sharply during the pandemic. Ayesha Rascoe talks with Amalia Chamorro, education policy director for UNIDOS U.S., about the findings.

The white gunman who killed 10 Black people and injured three other individuals at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in May was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on hate crimes and firearm charges. Here, a memorial for the supermarket shooti

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Suspect in the Buffalo mass shooting has been indicted on federal hate crime charges

5:58pm July 14, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The white gunman has been held without bail since his arrest after the May 14 shooting that killed 10 Black people and injured three others.

National

Black veterans came together at an empowerment conference to make their stories heard

4:46pm July 14, 2022

by Quil Lawrence

Groups made up of Black veterans recently came together in Washington, D.C., like they never have before. They're hoping by joining forces and telling their stories they can make their voices heard.

The U.S. student population is more diverse, but schools are still highly segregated

9:21am July 14, 2022

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.

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Why the family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 67-year-old arrest warrant

5:01pm July 13, 2022

The family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 1955 arrest warrant to the white woman they say is responsible for his murder and kidnapping.

Marchelle Tigner, a firearms instructor, teaches a student how to shoot a gun during a 2017 class in Lawrenceville, Ga. Tigner's goal is to train 1 million women how to shoot a gun in her lifetime. She is among the nation's Black women gun owners who say

Black gun owners have mixed feelings about the Supreme Court's concealed-carry ruling

3:34pm July 13, 2022

by Alana Wise

The United States has often been hostile toward Black gun ownership, but African Americans are the fastest growing demographic of armed weapons buyers in the country.

The death of Jayland Walker has spurred days of protest in Akron, Ohio, after the release of police bodycam footage showing officers shooting the 25-year-old Black man dozens of times.

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An Ohio city struggles to make sense of another fatal police shooting of a Black man

2:57pm July 13, 2022

by Jason Breslow

As Akron, Ohio, prepares for the funeral of Jayland Walker on Wednesday, the community is asking why a 25-year-old with no criminal record was shot dozens of times by officers.