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People participate in a vigil to honor the 10 people killed in Saturday's shooting at Tops market in Buffalo, New York.

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The Buffalo community honors victims of the Tops shooting and calls for big change

10:36am May 18, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Members of the Buffalo community grieving loved ones organized an evening vigil that honored the shooting victims while combining stirring gospel music and calls to action.

A mural of George Floyd at the intersection where he was murdered in Minneapolis, Minn.

Many know how George Floyd died. A new biography reveals how he lived

5:00am May 18, 2022

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.

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Jillian Hanesworth, the poet laureate of Buffalo.

Buffalo's poet laureate calls for change

6:12pm May 17, 2022

by Raquel Maria Dillon

Jillian Hanesworth says what her city needs right now is honest conversations about systemic racism, the history of segregation, redlining and highway construction that hurt Black neighborhoods.

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Biden denounces white supremacy while in Buffalo to visit shooting victims' families

4:26pm May 17, 2022

by Adrian Florido

President Biden visited Buffalo Tuesday to console victims and families of Saturday's mass shooting at a supermarket. He called on Congress to pass stricter gun laws.

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Pennsylvania Republican candidate for governor Doug Mastriano speaks during a rally at Archery Addictions on Friday in Lehighton, Pa.

Mastriano, a Trump-backed election denier, leads Pennsylvania GOP field for governor

2:13pm May 17, 2022

by Sam Dunklau

Far-right Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano is leading polls in the GOP primary for governor, panicking the state's Republican Party establishment. Former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta follows.

Authorities have said a man dressed all in black opened fire at the Hair World Salon on Wednesday, wounding three women, then drove off in a maroon minivan. A suspect has been arrested in the shooting, police said Tuesday.

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A suspect has been arrested in a Dallas salon shooting investigated as a hate crime

12:22pm May 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

The arrest was connected to a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown last week, police said. Federal officials have launched a hate crime investigation.

Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Emancipation Park during the "Unite the Right" rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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The 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory isn't fringe anymore, it's mainstream

9:43am May 17, 2022

by Odette Yousef

A racist conspiracy theory is believed to have motivated the suspected gunman in the Buffalo attack. It was once a fringe belief, but it's found its way into the mainstream.

Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, says the stop and search of a bus transporting members of its women's lacrosse team in Georgia was "constitutionally dubious." Here, the entrance of Delaware State University in Dover, Del., in

Delaware State University to file a complaint with DOJ after bus search incident

6:00am May 17, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

Tony Allen, Delaware State University's president, says once the complaint is officially filed, it will be made available to the campus community to read.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) speaks during a Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol business meeting on Capitol Hill March 28, 2022 in Washington, DC.

GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, Liz Cheney says

1:52pm May 16, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

In the wake of the Buffalo supermarket shooting, Cheney is calling on Republican leaders to "renounce and reject" white supremacist views and those who hold them.

On Sunday, a woman lights a candle at a makeshift memorial to the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at Tops market in Buffalo, N.Y.

Some are calling the Buffalo suspect a 'teenager.' Is that a privilege of his race?

1:26pm May 16, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The white supremacist suspect in Buffalo is 18 years old. Some news organizations and commentators have called him a "teenager" and "child" rather than a "man."