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News Articles: Series: America Reckons With Racial Injustice

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  • Race

Latinx Is A Term Many Still Can't Embrace

People born or descended from Spanish-speaking nations are still debating if any of the ethnic labels used to identify them in the United States feel right.

October 01, 2020
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By:
  • Marisa Peñaloza
Doris "Dorie" Miller, U.S. Navy mess attendant 2nd class, became one of the first American heroes of World War II for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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  • National Security

A Military 1st: A Supercarrier Is Named After An African American Sailor

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the civil rights movement. Miller, a sharecropper's son from Waco, Texas, was 22 years old when he created history.

October 01, 2020
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By:
  • Jay Price
Bombing victim Sarah Collins Rudolph, pictured in 2013, argues that Ku Klux Klan members who attacked the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 were "inspired and motivated by then-Gov. [George] Wallace's racist rhetoric."

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  • Race

Alabama Gov. Apologizes To Surviving '5th Girl' Of 1963 KKK Bombing

"There should be no question that Ms. Collins Rudolph and the families of those who perished ... suffered an egregious injustice that has yielded untold pain and suffering over the ensuing decades."

September 30, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a motion requesting more time to release a grand jury recording in the Breonna Taylor case.

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  • Race

Release Of Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recording Is Delayed Until Friday

The recording is expected to provide a window into more than two days of grand jury proceedings. The attorney general's office said it needed more time to redact witnesses' personal information.

September 30, 2020
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
During the presidential debate on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed the "Portland sheriff" supports him.

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  • Politics

Portland, Ore., Sheriff Says He 'Will Never Support' President Trump

"Donald Trump has made my job a hell of a lot harder since he started talking about Portland," says Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese. The president claimed that the "Portland sheriff" supports him.

September 30, 2020
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
The statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar, a 16th century Spanish conquistador, lies on the ground after it was pulled down by Indigenous people in Popayán, Colombia, earlier this year.

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  • World

U.S. Statue Removals Inspire Indigenous People In Latin America To Topple Monuments

The latest target was a statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar, a Spanish conquistador who founded two Colombian cities and led a military campaign that killed and enslaved thousands of Indigenous people.

September 30, 2020
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By:
  • John Otis
President Trump participates in the first presidential debate, held on Tuesday evening in Cleveland at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic.

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  • National

From Debate Stage, Trump Declines To Denounce White Supremacy

Asked to disavow white supremacists, President Trump addressed the Proud Boys directly, telling them to "stand back and stand by." He did not expand on what he meant.

September 30, 2020
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  • Sarah McCammon
The grand jury recording in the Breonna Taylor case will be released, after a judge ordered the attorney general's office to produce the recording by Wednesday. Here, a mother and son attend a demonstration in what activists are now calling Injustice Square Park in downtown Louisville, as protesters demand justice for Taylor's killing by police.

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  • Race

Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recording Will Be Released, Kentucky Attorney General Says

"The Grand Jury is meant to be a secretive body," Attorney General Daniel Cameron says in a statement. "It's apparent that the public interest in this case isn't going to allow that to happen."

September 29, 2020
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted former Louisville Police Department detective Brett Hanksion for shooting into neighboring apartments. On Monday he pleaded not guilty.

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  • Race

Officer Indicted In Breonna Taylor Case Pleads Not Guilty

Brett Hankison, the former Louisville Police Department detective, has pleaded not guilty to all three counts of wanton endangerment against him, his attorney said on Monday.

September 29, 2020
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  • Vanessa Romo
Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody was booked on Monday on a $10,000 bond. A grand jury indicted the Texas sheriff on charges of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death of Javier Ambler, a Black man who died in police custody last year.

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  • Law

Texas Sheriff Charged With Destroying Evidence In Officer-Related Death

A grand jury has indicted Sheriff Robert Chody with intentionally destroying or concealing video and audio recordings of the encounter involving a Black man who died in police custody last year.

September 29, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at the 2020 March on Washington, officially known as the Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28 in Washington.

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  • Race

Al Sharpton: Policing In America Will Change Because Of George Floyd's Death

Rev. Al Sharpton spoke with NPR about his new book Rise Up. Of George Floyd's death, he said: "I had begun to see, by the time of the funeral, there had been a movement that was unlike others."

September 28, 2020
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Woman Charged With Attempted Murder After Driving Into Pro-Trump Protesters

It's the latest in a string of vehicular violence since nationwide protests over systemic racism began in May.

September 27, 2020
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By:
  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Armed members of the Black Panther Party leave the Capitol in Sacramento May 2, 1967. The Panthers entered the Capitol fully armed and said they were protesting a bill before the Legislature restricting the carrying of arms in public.

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  • Race

Some Black Americans Buying Guns: 'I'd Rather Go To Trial Than Go To The Cemetery'

As the U.S. faces a fight for racial justice in the aftermath of police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, some Black Americans are considering how they can best protect themselves.

September 27, 2020
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By:
  • Christianna Silva
Interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz addresses a news conference about changes being made at the department, earlier this month. The SPD announced Thursday that an officer seen on video rolling his bicycle over a downed protester was suspended pending an investigation.

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  • National

Video Of Seattle Officer Rolling Bicycle Over Protester's Head Leads To Suspension

The unnamed officer will be placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the incident that occurred during protests earlier this week.

September 25, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
"You didn't just rob me and my family, you robbed the world of a queen," Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, said in a statement read aloud Friday by Palmer's sister, Bianca Austin. In this photo, Ju'Niyah Palmer is seen wiping away tears from her mother's face.

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  • Race

'I Have No Faith In The Legal System,' Breonna Taylor's Mother Says

"I was reassured Wednesday of why I have no faith in the legal system, in the police, in the law," Tamika Palmer said in a statement. "They are not made to protect us Black and brown people."

September 25, 2020
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  • Bill Chappell
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