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News Articles: Series: America Reckons With Racial Injustice

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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  • Jonathan Franklin
Demonstrators carry placards during a rally and march on June 27, 2020, over the death of Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colo.

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  • National

Colorado police officers and paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain death case

The charges stem from the role they are accused of playing in the 2019 death of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative called ketamine.

January 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This undated portrait shows Emmett Till, who was killed in Mississippi in 1955.

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  • Race

Emmett Till and his mother honored with the Congressional Gold Medal

The 14-year-old was killed by two white men in 1955 after a white woman accused him of flirting with her. The medal will be on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

December 24, 2022
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  • Giulia Heyward
Three bronze panels at one of the entrances to Bartlett Hall, at West Point depict the history of the United States. In coming days, the U.S. military academy will begin taking down memorials commemorating figures of the Confederacy.

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  • National

West Point will remove Confederate symbols from its campus

The storied military academy will take down likenesses of Robert E. Lee as part of a Department of Defense directive to do away with installations that "commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy."

December 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol on March 9, 2020.

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  • Politics

Congress votes to remove a bust of the Dred Scott decision's author from the Capitol

The bill calls for replacing the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the decision upholding slavery, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.

December 15, 2022
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  • Ashley Ahn
Attorney General Merrick Garland with Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Civil Rights Division, announced civil rights charges Thursday related to the botched Louisville Police drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor.

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  • Law

4 current and former officers federally charged in raid that killed Breonna Taylor

The charges announced by Attorney General Merrit Garland on Thursday include civil rights violations, conspiracy, use of excessive force offenses and obstruction.

August 05, 2022
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  • Emma Bowman
Former Minneapolis Police Officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday to three years for violating George Floyd's civil rights.

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  • National

Two former police officers are sentenced for violating George Floyd's civil rights

J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years and Tou Thao got 3 1/2 years — penalties that a judge said reflected their level of culpability in a case that sparked worldwide protests.

July 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Composer Carlos Simon's <em>Requiem for the Enslaved</em>, commissioned by Georgetown University, is a reckoning with the school's troubled history.

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  • Music Reviews

'Requiem for the Enslaved' holds a major university's truths up to the light

Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.

June 17, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Composer Carlos Simon's <em>Requiem for the Enslaved</em>, commissioned by Georgetown University, is a reckoning with the school's troubled history.

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  • Music Reviews

'Requiem for the Enslaved' holds a major university's truths up to the light

Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.

June 17, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Terrence Floyd speaks during a news conference during the unveiling of three sculptures as part of the "SEEINJUSTICE" art exhibition that feature the likenesses of his brother George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and John Lewis, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, at Union Square in the Manhattan borough of New York.

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  • Race

9,000 digital art NFTs are being released to raise funds in George Floyd's memory

In the fight to get justice for his brother's murder, Terrence Floyd has turned to the unlikeliest corners to do just that: NFTs — or non-fungible tokens.

April 15, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
People in Los Angeles walk in a silent protest march on April 9, 2012, to demand justice for the killing of Trayvon Martin.

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  • Race

Trayvon Martin's killing 10 years ago changed the tenor of democracy

The Black teen's killing on Feb. 26, 2012, helped spark Black Lives Matter. Though the movement has seemingly yielded some cultural change, it comes at a time when hope for legal change is tenuous.

February 28, 2022
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  • Robert Baldwin III
Francis Oliver founded a small Black history museum in Sanford, Fla., the city where Trayvon Martin was killed. She has preserved the items from the roadside memorial that popped up after his death.

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  • Race

Mementos preserve Trayvon Martin's legacy, 10 years after his killing

A small Black history museum in the city where Trayvon Martin was killed saved the tributes people brought to the roadside memorial that sprung up after his death.

February 26, 2022
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  • Adrian Florido
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Three ex-Minneapolis police officers guilty of violating George Floyd's civil rights

A jury found that Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao all deprived Floyd of his right to medical care, and that two of them failed to intervene as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck.

February 24, 2022
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  • Becky Sullivan
Colin Kaepernick, co-creator of the Netflix dramatic limited series, <em>Colin in Black and White</em>, attends the series premiere on Oct. 28, 2021. The former NFL quarterback has launched an initiative to offer free second autopsies in police-related deaths.

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  • Race

Colin Kaepernick launches new initiative to offer autopsies for police-related deaths

The new initiative will eliminate concerns from the first autopsy, ensure that it was conducted without any biases or errors.

February 24, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Brett Hankison (left) exits the courtroom after the first day of jury selection in his trial on Feb. 8, in Louisville, Ky. Hankison is on trial for allegedly firing shots into the apartment next door to Breonna Taylor's the night she was killed.

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  • National

Trial begins for a former officer charged in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor

Brett Hankison fired 10 shots near a side door during the 2020 raid in Louisville, Ky., but none hit Breonna Taylor. Prosecutors say the bullets endangered her neighbors — a couple and their child.

February 23, 2022
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