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An image of Andrew Brown Jr. at a memorial on Saturday.

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Andrew Brown's Family Views Longer Video Footage Of Fatal Shooting

7:15pm May 11, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

"What we saw on that video was an unjustified killing," family attorney Bakari Sellers told reporters on Tuesday in Elizabeth City, N.C., after seeing additional police body camera video.

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Black Police Officers Reflect On George Floyd Murder, Derek Chauvin Trial

5:21pm May 11, 2021

Last June, NPR's Ari Shapiro spoke with three police officers about being Black in law enforcement. We revisit those officers to talk about the Chauvin verdict and what's next for police reform.

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Ahmaud Arbery's relatives, including sister Jasmine Arbery (left) and his mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones (second from left), sit at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Monday to witness Gov. Brian Kemp sign a law repealing the state's citizen's arrest statute.

In Ahmaud Arbery's Name, Georgia Repeals Citizen's Arrest Law

4:33pm May 11, 2021

by Emma Hurt

Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, signed a law repealing the citizen's arrest law. The men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery are using it as part of their defense in the murder case.

NBC Rebukes Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Won't Air 2022 Golden Globes

7:24am May 11, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

NBC says it will not broadcast the 2022 Golden Globe awards show — following an explosive investigative report from the LA Times alleging unethical actions from the group that bestows the awards.

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Researchers Say Md. Man's Cicada Work Was Ignored Because He Was Black

6:47am May 11, 2021

Maryland intellectual and free Black man Benjamin Banneker was one of the first to document cicadas' 17-year life cycle in the late 1700s. His work was rarely credited.

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, far right, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski and Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones stand next to a new historic marker on Saturday in Towson, Md., that memorializes Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a

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Maryland Governor Grants Posthumous Pardons To 34 Black Lynching Victims

6:50pm May 09, 2021

by Eric McDaniel

Maryland is the first state to issue a comprehensive set of pardons to the victims of lynching. Across the U.S., more than 4,000 Black people were lynched in acts of racial terror.