• about-white-supremacists
• about-lynching
• U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush

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Written by Stacy M. Brown

Published: 01 March 2022

Stacy Brown 

Named in honor of Emmett Till, the Black whose horrific murder at the hands of white men in Mississippi in 1955, the bill outlaws lynching.

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Written by By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press

Published: 01 March 2022

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The unit, known in short as the Six Triple Eight, was tasked with sorting and routing mail for millions of American service members and civilians. Only a half-dozen of the more than 850 members are still alive.

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Written by By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press

Published: 28 February 2022

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The Washington state House has dropped its requirement that lawmakers verify they are vaccinated in order to attend floor votes, and is allowing the public back in one of the galleries overseeing the chamber

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Written by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Published: 28 February 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson 

An evenly divided Senate will face the task of confirming Judge Jackson to the highest court in America and, in the process, make her the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court

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Written by CALVIN WOODWARD and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press

Published: 28 February 2022

 

The state of the union is disunity and division. It’s a state of exhaustion from the pandemic. Measures of happiness have hit a bottom, with fewer Americans saying they are very happy in the 2021 General Social Survey than in the last 50 years of asking them

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Written by YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press

Published: 27 February 2022

 

As Ukrainians mount a fierce resistance and Rusia attacks airfields and fuel facilities, the U.S. and EU respond with weapons and ammunition for the outnumbered Ukrainians and powerful sanctions intended to further isolate Moscow

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Written by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press

Published: 26 February 2022

 

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia's Security Council - chaired by President Vladimir Putin- threatens to freeze Western assets, end nuclear arms cooperation and cut diplomatic ties with Western nations

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Written by Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina

Published: 25 February 2022

 

With the majority of the world population being either immunized against COVID-19 or having recovered from infection, people have rightly begun to ask: How long will the immunity provide immune protection?

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Written by COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press

Published: 25 February 2022

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Brown would be the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries

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• Ahmaud Arbery
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Written by By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press

Published: 22 February 2022

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The jury also found father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan guilty of attempted kidnapping, and the McMichaels guilty of the use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.