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Encore: Civil rights tourism may protect Mississippi history

5:18pm April 22, 2023

Civil rights trails across the South have proven to be an economic driver. In Mississippi, there's a new push to better tell that history. And now, the federal government is getting involved.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey delivers her State of the State address on March 7. On Friday, the governor announced she had replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book.

Alabama governor ousts a top education official over a book's 'woke concepts' on race

2:46pm April 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

Gov. Ivey replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that Ivey said teaches "woke concepts" because of language about inclusion and structural racism.

An 18-year-old Indiana University student was less than a mile away from the Bloomington campus when an attacker struck her multiple times in the head with a folding knife.

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An Indiana woman is charged with a federal hate crime in alleged anti-Asian bus attack

1:47pm April 22, 2023

by Juliana Kim

A federal grand jury indicted Billie R. Davis, who is accused of stabbing an 18-year-old university student on a bus in Bloomington "because of the victim's race and national origin," officials said.

This image provided by the Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Kim Potter. The former Brooklyn Center police officer is scheduled to be released from prison on Monday.

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The former Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright will be freed Monday

9:50am April 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

Kim Potter, who was convicted of manslaughter after mistaking her handgun for a Taser in the 2021 incident, is set to be released from prison after serving 16 months. Daunte Wright was 20 years old.

Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta in September 2022. His family's attorney, Michael Harper, said Thompson's body was covered with insect bite marks.

Crump says Kaepernick to pay for autopsy for inmate who died in 'appalling conditions'

12:45pm April 21, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.

Students at the University of Minnesota celebrate their induction into medical school. The U.S. has disproportionately few Black and Hispanic doctors. Some of the barriers to entering the profession start before even getting into medical school, recent research finds, including financial pressures and racism.

Health & Safety

Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color

1:57pm April 20, 2023

by Maria Godoy

The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.

A photo of Tyre Nichols is positioned prior to a press conference on Jan. 27 in Memphis, Tenn. Attorneys representing Nichols' family announced plans to file a civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis, Memphis Police Department, and individual officers for the 29-year-old's January death.

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Tyre Nichols' family sues the Memphis police force, the officers and the city

1:08pm April 19, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The lawsuit compared Nichols' fatal police beating to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, saying the 29-year-old suffered a beating "endured at hands of a modern-day lynch mob."

Lemiley Lane, who grew up in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, walks along the Bountiful High School campus during her junior year in 2020 in Bountiful, Utah. The school changed its nickname in 2021 to "The Redhawks."

As schools face calls to drop Native American mascots, some could lose state money

10:41am April 19, 2023

by Scott Neuman

New York on Tuesday became the latest state in the nation to move to force schools to do away with the use of Native American team names or mascots. Those that don't comply risk losing their funding.

Julia Lee's book cover for Biting the Hand: Growing up Asian in Black and White America.

Books

'Biting the Hand': Korean American author calls for weaponizing invisibility

7:57am April 19, 2023

by Reena Advani

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

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Kansas City mayor on the shooting of a Black teenager

4:41pm April 18, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas about the investigation into the shooting of a Black teenager by a white homeowner after the teen mistakenly arrived at the wrong address.

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