Jun 17 5 years after church massacre, South Carolina protects confederate monuments By Associated Press South Carolina law protects all historical monuments and names of buildings, requiring a two-thirds vote from the General Assembly to make any changes. Continue reading
Jun 17 Netflix CEO, wife to donate $120M to HBCUs By Associated Press Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, are donating $120 million toward student scholarships at historically black colleges and universities. Continue reading
Jun 17 After 130 years, Aunt Jemima will vanish from packaging By Associated Press Quaker Oats company is changing the name and marketing image of the 131-year-old Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup. Continue reading
Jun 17 WATCH: Senate GOP holds news conference about 'Justice Act' on police changes By Lisa Mascaro, Jim Mustian, Associated Press The “Justice Act” is the most ambitious GOP policing proposal in years, a direct response to the massive public protests over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans. Continue reading
Jun 16 Calls for de-escalation training grow after Atlanta shooting By Kate Brumback, R.J. Rico, Associated Press The deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta in the span of less than three weeks have led to a push in the U.S. for more training of police officers in how to de-escalate tense situations… Continue reading
Jun 16 U.S. Supreme Court halts Texas execution over clergy question By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a reprieve to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation's busiest death penalty… Continue reading
Jun 16 Watch 10:27 Did police officers in the killing of Rayshard Brooks have to use deadly force? Rayshard Brooks’ shooting death at the hands of Atlanta police has added new fuel to the national conversation and protests over use of force. The encounter began calmly but escalated when officers tried to arrest Brooks for driving under the… Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch 8:20 What Breonna Taylor's killing says about police treatment of black women Before the killings of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and George Floyd in Minneapolis, another major city was angered by the death of a black American at the hands of police. Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her own apartment in… Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch 7:01 Peter Piot spent his career chasing viruses. Then COVID-19 'got' him No part of the globe has been spared the effects of the novel coronavirus, with people in nearly every country becoming infected. Although the severity of cases varies widely, even those who know viruses the best can fall victim to… Continue watching
Jun 16 For immigrants, marching with Black Lives Matter has risks By Astrid Galvan, Associated Press Many immigrants feel solidarity with the Black Lives Movement and want to participate in ongoing national marches. But they face an added risk of ending up in immigration custody if they get arrested, even for protesting peacefully. Continue reading