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News Articles: racial justice

Zo’e Johnson, 13, attends art class at First Presbyterian Day School. It was among the hundreds of private schools that opened during desegregation as white children fled the arrival of Black students.

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  • Education

What choosing private school means to a Macon family whose matriarch integrated her high school

What is it like for Black students attending one of the formerly whites only private schools created in the South during desegregation?

August 27, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Hawes
In this June 25, 2021, file image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis.

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  • National

Ex-officer convicted in George Floyd's killing is moved to new prison

Derek Chauvin was moved to a prison in Texas months after he was stabbed in a different facility. Meanwhile, another former Minneapolis officer, Thomas Lane, was released from prison in Colorado.

August 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Interim Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant speaks to the Associated Press, June 18, 2020, in Atlanta. Bryant retired as Atlanta's police chief in June 2022. On Friday, April 14, 2023, and Saturday, April 15, Black police chiefs, commissioners, sheriffs and commanders from across the country are set to meet in Detroit for the annual CEO symposium of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

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  • News

Black chiefs to meet amid debate on benefit of cop diversity

Black police chiefs, commissioners, sheriffs and commanders from across the country are set to meet this weekend in Detroit for the annual CEO symposium of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

April 13, 2023
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  • Associated Press
This combination photo shows Travis McMichael (from left), William Bryan and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The three men have filed appeals of their federal hate crime convictions.

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  • National

3 men found guilty in Ahmaud Arbery's murder file appeals of hate crime convictions

The 25-year-old Arbery was shot and killed after he was pursued by two of the men, who saw him running in their neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga., on Feb. 23, 2020. The third man filmed the encounter.

March 10, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are set to stand trial on federal hate crime charges in February after being convicted the day before Thanksgiving in the Glynn County courthouse for the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.

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  • Law

Ahmaud Arbery's murderers to be sentenced Monday for federal hate crimes

Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are already serving life sentences for their state murder convictions as they await federal sentencing.

August 05, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Monteria Robinson, standing before microphones assembled by local media outside of the Clayton County Police Department, is accompanied Aug. 4, 2022, by supporters of her son, Jamarion Robinson, who was killed by police in 2016.

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  • News

Victim's mother, family want answers from Clayton County PD on hiring of indicted officer

The mother of a man shot more than 100 times is calling for the firing of one of the law enforcement officers that was involved in her son’s death. 

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Donnell Suggs
16 students from Savannah State University stand outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick on Nov. 18, 2021.

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  • Education

New photo exhibition chronicles rally of Black pastors amid trial of Ahmaud Arbery's murderers

Savannah State journalism professor Jason Miccolo Johnson and his students documented the demonstration outside the Glynn County Courthouse last November.

April 04, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Clarence Henderson (center), apprehended in 1948 for a murder he likely did not commit.

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  • News

Georgia Today: The three death sentences of Clarence Henderson

In 1948, a Black sharecropper in Georgia was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. What happened next tells us a lot about the legal system in the United States then — and now.

February 25, 2022
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Arbery Mother

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  • Law

After emotional testimony from Arbery's mother, federal judge rejects plea agreement

A federal judge on Monday rejected the terms of a proposed plea agreement in the federal hate crime case against Travis McMichael, one of the three men convicted in a separate state case of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, the Black jogger who McMichael fatally shot outside Brunswick two years ago.

January 31, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Ahmaud Arbery's father Marcus Arbery, center, is hugged by his attorney Benjamin Crump after the jury convicted Travis McMichael in the Glynn County Courthouse, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga. Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

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  • Race

Georgia Today: Reporter reflects on the Ahmaud Arbery trial and where Brunswick goes from here

On this week's Georgia Today podcast, we explore the emotional toll surrounding the Brunswick trial of the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery. During the trial, says Larry Hobbs from the Brunswick News, "Marcus Arbery and Wanda Cooper-Jones were the faces of courage — to see these images of their son over and over again, to hear what the defense said about their son — this was a grueling episode for them." After the guilty verdicts in the long-awaited trial, where do Brunswick and Glynn County go from here?  

 

December 03, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Arbery's mother

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  • Law

'He will now rest in peace.' Ahmaud Arbery's mother, activists and leaders react to guilty verdicts

Ahmaud Arbery's mother was one voice in a chorus celebrating the jury’s verdict. Civil rights activists and politicians praised the decision: all three defendants found guilty of felony murder.

November 24, 2021
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
Defendant Travis McMichael stands as the jury enters the room at the Glynn County Courthouse on November 8, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia.

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  • Law

Trio found guilty of Ahmaud Arbery's murder

The jury deliberating the fate of the three white men charged in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery has reached a verdict — all three guilty of murder.

November 24, 2021
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  • GPB News Staff
Theawanza Brooks prays

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  • News

Friends and family retrace Ahmaud Arbery’s final steps ahead of his killers' high-profile trial

While the coastal town of Brunswick is still waiting for ultimate closure in Ahmaud Arbery's death — which family and friends say would come with three guilty verdicts — the tragic incident sparked undeniable change not only for the small town but the entire state of Georgia.

October 18, 2021
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
Mrs. King stands with her husband, Slater King and their three children who witnessed the police assault.

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  • Race

Children Of Civil Rights Activist Seek Justice Decades Later

The children of civil rights activist Marion King are seeking justice for their mother, who suffered police violence against her in 1962 that they say resulted in a miscarriage. 

September 15, 2021
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
three men address reporters in front of Savannah city hall

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  • Law

Five Savannah Officers Fired After Death In Custody

Two officers were fired for their role in the death of a 60-year-old Black man in police custody, and another three were fired for later sharing a meme about it.

June 14, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Jones
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