• Juneteenth's evolution into a national holiday and meaningful ways to celebrate

    Juneteenth's evolution into a national holiday and meaningful ways to celebrate

    Jun 19, 2022 09:40 PM EDT

    ... Yang:  Geoff, Juneteenth dates back more than a century. It`s gaining traction in recent years with the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and it`s come to mean different things to different people. Two perspectives now from Athenia Rodney, founder of Juneteenth NYC, and Melissa Rohlfs ...

  • Craig Greenberg wins Democratic nod for Louisville mayor soon after surviving shooting attempt

    Craig Greenberg wins Democratic nod for Louisville mayor soon after surviving shooting attempt

    May 18, 2022 01:54 AM EDT

    ... only officer criminally charged in the Taylor raid, leaving many activists in the city with the feeling that the city’s justice system had failed Taylor and her family. “We demand the truth, we demand transparency,” Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt, said at a memorial in March for her niece ...

  • 2022 Kentucky Primary Election Results

    2022 Kentucky Primary Election Results

    May 16, 2022 10:55 PM EDT

    ... police officer criminally charged in the Taylor raid, leaving many activists in the city with a sense that the city’s justice system had failed Taylor and her family. “We demand the truth, we demand transparency,” Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt, said at a memorial in March for her niece ...

  • WATCH: GOP lawmakers hold news briefing on infant formula shortage

    WATCH: GOP lawmakers hold news briefing on infant formula shortage

    May 12, 2022 02:20 PM EDT

    ... security crisis for the most vulnerable of Americans, the ones that we cherish the most and that's our babies," said Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. "This is a crisis that should never be happening, and this is completely squarely on the shoulders of the Biden administration and the ...

  • Claudia Rankine’s 'Help' brings the topic of white privilege to the stage

    Claudia Rankine’s 'Help' brings the topic of white privilege to the stage

    Mar 20, 2022 08:28 PM EDT

    ... how the events of the last two years have changed it. Zachary Green: We saw a number of high-profile deaths of Black people: Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Daunte Wright, among others. What has it been like for you to bear witness to all of these deaths and ...

  • NTSB: 13-year-old drove pickup in Texas crash that killed 9

    NTSB: 13-year-old drove pickup in Texas crash that killed 9

    Mar 18, 2022 03:25 PM EDT

    ... be 14 in Texas to start taking classroom courses for a learner’s license and 15 to receive that provisional license to drive with an instructor or licensed adult in the vehicle. Department of Public Safety Sgt. Victor Taylor said a 13-year-old driving would be breaking the law.

  • Child was driving pickup in crash that killed 9

    Child was driving pickup in crash that killed 9

    Mar 17, 2022 11:12 PM EDT

    ... was unclear how fast the two vehicles were traveling, “this was clearly a high-speed collision,” Landsberg said. One must be 14 in Texas to start taking classroom courses for a learner’s license and 15 to receive that provisional license to drive with an instructor or licensed adult in ...

  • States diverge on police reforms after George Floyd killing

    States diverge on police reforms after George Floyd killing

    Dec 30, 2021 05:41 PM EDT

    ... warrants approved by the Legislature, where Republicans hold veto-proof supermajorities. The bill was passed after months of demonstrations over the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville home during a botched police raid last year. It permits no-knock warrants if there is "clear and convincing evidence" that ...

  • How Americans are reacting to George Floyd’s death one year later

    How Americans are reacting to George Floyd’s death one year later

    May 25, 2021 08:56 PM EDT

    ... for all of this, then the change will come.” Shameka Parrish-Wright Two months before Floyd’s death, police in Louisville shot and killed Breonna Taylor while executing a no-knock search warrant in her apartment. Taylor’s death brought protesters to the streets, including Shameka Parrish-Wright. She’s ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Liz Cheney, Trump and the GOP

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Liz Cheney, Trump and the GOP

    May 10, 2021 10:30 PM EDT

    ... talking about it. He's not going to stop putting out statements. And it looks like he's going to at some point relatively soon start doing rallies. His supporters in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, who have all kinds of other issues, held a rally at The ...