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In this screen grab from video, prosecutor Steve Schleicher speaks as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over jury selection earlier this month in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis.

National

Televised Chauvin Trial Due To Pandemic Yields Wide Access — And Concern

11:55am March 29, 2021

by Matt Sepic

This is the first time a Minnesota trial has been broadcast. Unlike Iowa, Wisconsin and other states, courts here have long opposed electronic media coverage.

National

Chauvin Trial Shines A Light On George Floyd's Death, Racial Injustice

7:42am March 29, 2021

Opening statements begin Monday in the trial of an ex-policeman who was videoed with his knee on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. It sparked a reckoning over race and justice in America.

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West Chester, Ohio, Board of Trustees Chairman Lee Wong bares his chest at a meeting Tuesday. Those scars, suffered during his U.S. military service, are "proof" of his patriotism, he said.

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Asian American Local Leader Shows Army Scars: 'Is This Patriot Enough?'

9:10pm March 27, 2021

by Matthew S. Schwartz

After referencing a history of discrimination he's experienced, West Chester Board of Trustees Chairman Lee Wong removed his shirt to show scars he got while he was in the military.

Johnny Thornton says there was a growing conflict between Barry Fleming's work as a lawmaker and for Hancock County.

Politics & Government

In Georgia County, Elections Bills Have Consequences

7:59am March 27, 2021

by Stephen Fowler

Hancock County cut ties with a lawmaker over Georgia's new voting bill. Residents in the majority-Black area said Barry Fleming's work as county attorney was incompatible with the bills he supported.

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The cover of Paula Yoo's forthcoming book From A Whisper To A Rallying Cry

Books

How Vincent Chin's Death Gave Others A Voice

7:00am March 27, 2021

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Paula Yoo discusses her new book From A Whisper to A Rallying Cry and how the 1982 death of Chin, a Chinese American man in Detroit, led a new generation of Asian Americans into political action.

Music & Culture

Words Won't Fail Us: Rita Dove Talks With Lara Downes

5:00am March 27, 2021

by Lara Downes

The former poet laureate, Pulitzer winner and musician says she's obsessed with telling neglected stories and making poems sing.

National

Reparations Can — And Should — Take Many Forms, Says Human Rights Researcher

4:43pm March 26, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dreisen Heath, a researcher and advocate at the Human Rights Watch, about reparations in the United States.

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National

Grandmother Who Fended Off Attacker Is Donating GoFundMe Earnings To Charity

4:43pm March 26, 2021

The Asian grandmother who fended off an attacker last week in San Francisco amid a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S. is donating the nearly $1 million made in a GoFundMe campaign to charity.

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Health & Safety

Dialysis Centers An Efficient Option To Vaccinate Quickly And Reach Minority Groups

4:43pm March 26, 2021

by Yuki Noguchi

About half of dialysis patients nationally are Black or Latino and vulnerable to severe Covid-19 or death. Many get dialysis three times a week, so vaccinating at those centers would be efficient.

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Juan Gonzalez, shown here during a meeting last month at the White House, recently returned from a trip to Mexico and Guatemala. He's the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere.

'Predatory Elite' Also Bear The Blame For Migrant Crisis, NSC's Juan Gonzalez Says

1:12pm March 26, 2021

by Bill Chappell

"Migration is essentially a social release valve for migrants," says Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere.

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