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National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice
The Washington National Cathedral unveiled new stained-glass windows Saturday with a theme of racial justice, replacing windows that honored Confederate generals. The new windows depict a march for justice by African Americans.
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Patients need doctors who look like them. Can medicine diversify without affirmative action?
After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a pathway into medicine may become much harder for students of color. Heightening the alarm: the medical field’s reckoning with longstanding health inequities.
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Six ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men
Six former Mississippi law officers, including some who call themselves the “Goon Squad,” plead guilty to state charges Monday for their racist assault on two Black men that ended with an officer shooting one man in the mouth.
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Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice
Bystanders who trained their smartphone cameras on an Alabama riverfront dock, as several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity.
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As conservatives target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and students of color feel less safe
As politicians and activists push for limits on discussions of race, gender and sexuality, some students say the measures targeting aspects of their identity have made them less welcome in American schools.
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FBI Broke Rules in Scouring Foreign Intelligence on Jan. 6 Riot, Racial Justice Protests, Court Says
FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and racial justice protests in 2020. That’s according to a heavily blacked-out court order released Friday. FBI officials said the violations predated a series of corrective measures that started in...
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Black Veterans Were More Often Denied VA Benefits for PTSD Than White Counterparts, Newly Surfaced Study Shows
“Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was,” said one Black veteran.
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In ‘Bloody Sunday' Anniversary Speech, President Biden Says Right to Vote Remains Under Assault
Two years ago, his 2021 legislation, named after civil right leader John Lewis, the late Georgia congressman, included provisions to restrict partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.
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Lawmakers Reintroduce a Bill to Compensate Families of Black World War II Veterans
Two lawmakers re-introduced legislation Tuesday that would award GI Bill benefits to the descendants of Black veterans who failed to receive assistance to attend college or buy homes or businesses in the post-World War II years.