Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: In this 1955 file photo, Carolyn Bryant poses for a photo. Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office.  (AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File)  By Emily Wagster Pettus associated presS JACKSON, Miss. — The white woman who accused Black…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Derrick Johnson speaks at a community meeting, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Johnson, who lives in Jackson, said at another community meeting in the city on April 6, 2023, that the NAACP intends to sue the state of Mississippi over a law that will expand the role of a state-run police…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Protesters stand on a street corner in Carrollton, Ky. on Monday, April 24, 2023, to protest the hiring of a former Louisville police officer who shot Breonna Taylor. Myles Cosgrove was recently hired by the Carroll County sheriffs department. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan) ASSOCIATED PRESS  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The former Louisville police officer who…

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By Ted Anthony ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — The American front door is a place where the welcome mat offers friendly greetings, where affable neighbors knock or ring, where boxes brimming with possibility are delivered. It is where home meets a world full of potentially good things. The American front door is a place where…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Candles with the names of the four young people killed in a shooting and teddy bears dressed in graduation caps sit outside the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Dadeville, Ala. Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the shooting at a Sweet Sixteen…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This undated photo provided by Ben Crump Law shows Ralph Yarl, the teenager shot by a homeowner in Kansas City, Mo. (Ben Crump Law via AP) By Margaret Stafford and Jim Salter ASSOCIATED PRESS  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Monday with first-degree assault for…

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ABOVE PHOTO: In this photo provided by the Southwest Ledger, people from Idabel, Okla., call for the resignation of several McCurtain County officials at a county commissioners meeting early Monday, April 17, 2023, after tapes with the officials’ racist comments surfaced over the weekend. (Christopher Bryan/Southwest Ledger via AP) By Sean Murphy ASSOCIATED PRESS  OKLAHOMA…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A crowd of over 300 people protest the killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Mich., April 16, 2022. The 26-year-old Congolese refugee was fatally shot by a Grand Rapids police officer after resisting arrest during a traffic stop on April 4. (Eric Seals /Detroit Free Press via AP) By Corey Williams ASSOCIATED…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott arrives for the state’s General Assembly’s annual 90-day session, on Jan. 11, 2023, in Annapolis, Md. Scott has called for a summer curfew after two teenagers were shot at the city’s Inner Harbor area while police were attempting to break up a large crowd of minors Sunday night, April…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. The Supreme Court won’t have far to look for a personal take on the “crushing weight” of student debt that underlies the Biden administration’s…

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