RIVERSIDE, Calif. — At 72 years old and ailing, Bunny Jo Harris regularly drives from her home in Riverside to medical appointments in Long Beach, a trip that usually takes about an hour and a half each way.
The national debate over race and policing has felt particularly close to activists in Minneapolis, who viewed several cases in their region as examples of police officers not being held accountable for killing black civilians.
The national debate over race and policing has felt particularly close to activists in Minneapolis, who viewed several cases in their region as examples of police officers not being held accountable for killing black civilians.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Makkah Ali learned that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., had been elected, she could not get enough of the good news — someone like her, a black Muslim woman, was going to Washington to represent Americans.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nature was showing its fickle side Wednesday, with blizzard conditions, heavy snow and frigid air pounding parts of the Rockies and the Plains, just a day after the weather was sunny and idyllic. Schools and highways were shut down, hundreds of flights were canceled, and some communities braced for floods.
Nature was showing its fickle side Wednesday, with blizzard conditions, heavy snow and frigid air expected to pound parts of the Rockies and the Plains, just a day after the weather was sunny and idyllic in some of those same places.
Nearly five years ago, Lesley McSpadden appeared distraught before the eyes of the world after finding out that a grand jury had declined to indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in the fatal shooting of her teenage son, Michael Brown, who was black.
Nearly five years ago, Lesley McSpadden appeared distraught before the world after finding out that a grand jury had declined to indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in the fatal shooting of her teenage son, Michael Brown, who was black.
When Meredith Watson decided to publicly accuse Virginia’s lieutenant governor of raping her, she knew she would face a backlash — most women who accuse powerful men of sexual assault do.
When Meredith Watson decided to publicly accuse Virginia’s lieutenant governor of raping her, she knew she would face a backlash — most women who accuse powerful men of sexual assault do.
The people in the town where Ralph Northam, Virginia’s governor, grew up want you to know that black and white people got along just fine when he was a kid there in the 1960s and ‘70s.
When reports emerged that Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia had a racist photograph on his page in the 1984 yearbook, it not only sent his political career into a tailspin, it also cast a negative light on a tradition at the elite school that turned ugly.
He also remembered the time he was in a restaurant with several white friends, and they all had to leave when the restaurant would not serve him because he was black.
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