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Nation Dec 16

Negro Leagues are elevated to major league status. What does it mean for baseball?

Arts Oct 19

Watch 2:49
An essay on the importance of interracial friendships

In a year when racism has been front and center in Americans’ minds, how can we break out of our own orbits to understand the life experiences of other people -- especially those of other races? Author and journalist Christine…

Nation Sep 30

California to study reparations for Black Americans

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the law on Wednesday. It sets up a nine-member task force to come up with a plan for how the state could give reparations to Black Americans.

By Adam Beam, Associated Press

Nation Aug 20

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Police chief says Tennessee officers broke down door of innocent family

Three white Tennessee police officers have had their police powers suspended after they broke down the door of an innocent Black family this week. Nashville police say officers used a public housing agency database to find the home of a…

By Associated Press

Nation Jun 19

Watch 9:30
News Wrap: Officer in Breonna Taylor killing to be fired

In our news wrap Friday, the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, says one of the police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor will be fired. Two others remain on administrative reassignment pending results of an investigation into the March…

Jun 19

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Americans observe Juneteenth with calls for racial justice

By Amna Nawaz

Americans marked this Juneteenth holiday with marches and rallies nationwide. The date commemorates when the last slaves were freed in the United States, which was more than two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and over a century…

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Jun 19

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Tulsa’s Black residents mark Juneteenth holiday amid anxiety about Trump rally

By Yamiche Alcindor, Frank Carlson, Lena I. Jackson

The historic Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was known a century ago as “the Black Wall Street” for being among the most prosperous parts of the U.S. for Black Americans. But in 1921, a white mob murdered some 300 Black…

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Jun 19

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How pandemic, police protests created an ‘alignment’ for racial change

The past several weeks have been tumultuous ones for American race relations. Between a pandemic disproportionately affecting Black people and new incidents of police violence, Juneteenth has taken on increased public prominence. Yamiche Alcindor talks to Mark Anthony Neal, professor…

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Jun 01

Black businesses bear economic brunt of the pandemic

By Kat Stafford, Associated Press

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only disproportionately impacted African Americans, infecting and killing them at higher rates across the nation, but black Americans are also experiencing the economic brunt of the pandemic.

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Apr 08

Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans

By Kat Stafford, Meghan Hoyer, Aaron Morrison, Associated Press

As the coronavirus tightens its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population — black Americans.

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