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Indigenous tribes push to preserve Native American food culture

5:16am November 25, 2021

by Melissa Sevigny

Thanksgiving myth tells us that the Pilgrims survived because friendly Native Americans helped them adapt their farming practices. Since then, it's been Native people who've been forced to adapt.

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Ahmaud's father Marcus Arbery and family attorney Ben Crump talk about trial outcome

7:21pm November 24, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Marcus Arbery, the father of Ahmaud Arbery, and attorney Ben Crump about the guilty verdicts reached in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud.

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From left to right: Marcus Arbery, father of Ahmaud Arbery; attorney Ben Crump; Rev. Al Sharpton; Wanda Cooper-Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery; and attorney Lee Merritt address the media following guilty verdicts for the defendants in the trial of the kill

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For many, guilty verdicts in Arbery case mark progress for racial justice in court

7:19pm November 24, 2021

by Emma Bowman

Attorneys and activists lauded the jury verdict that found three white men guilty in the murder of a 25-year-old Black man.

A community member posts flyers for Amaria Hall.

HBO's 'Black and Missing' offers an antidote to Missing White Woman Syndrome

5:22pm November 24, 2021

by Eric Deggans

The docuseries follows the work of the Black and Missing Foundation, which steps in to search for missing people of color when media and law enforcement fall short.

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3 white men have been found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery

4:26pm November 24, 2021

by Debbie Elliott

A Georgia jury determined three white men are guilty of murder Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger. The nearly all-white panel was not swayed by arguments that y was killed in self-defense.

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Travis McMichael (from left); his father, Gregory McMichael; and William "Roddie" Bryan have been on trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was fatally shot while out for a run last year in Georgia.

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3 white men are found guilty of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery

4:23pm November 24, 2021

Travis McMichael; his father, Greg; and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan all faced nine criminal counts in Georgia state court, including felony murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment.

Republican state Sen. Rob McColley presents a new congressional district map, drawn by the Senate Republican Caucus.

Despite voter-approved anti-gerrymandering reforms, Ohio GOP still draws lopsided map

3:41pm November 24, 2021

by Andy Chow (Statehouse News Bureau)

Ohio's new congressional map favors Republicans 13 to 2. Voting rights advocates say it's a violation of redistricting rules voters put in place in 2018. One group has already filed a legal challenge.

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Encore: Looking back on the legacy of 'Shaft,' 50 years later

4:45pm November 23, 2021

by Marc Rivers

The film Shaft was released 50 years ago this week and heralded what came to be known as Blaxploitation cinema. The genre has a checkered legacy — and inspired Oscar-winning music.

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Jury has begun to deliberate in the trial of 3 men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery

4:18pm November 23, 2021

by Debbie Elliott

The nearly all-white jury has begun deliberating the fate of Travis and Greg Michael and William 'Roddie' Bryan. They are accused of murdering Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 near Brunswick, Ga.

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Flowers, candles and chalk-written messages surround a photograph of Heather Heyer on the spot where she was killed and 19 others injured when a car slamed into a crowd of people protesting against a white supremacist rally, August 16, 2017 in Charlottesv

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Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville

4:00pm November 23, 2021

Plaintiffs alleged that the organizers and participants of the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally conspired to commit violence and interfered with their right to be free from racially-motivated violence.