Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: A Xavier University police officer redirects a motorist around campus after a bomb threat put the campus on lockdown in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (David Grunfeld/The Advocate via AP) By Collin Binkley ASSOCIATED PRESS  As the nation’s historically Black colleges remain on edge after receiving dozens of bomb threats in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. In its annual report, released Wednesday, March 9, 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center said it identified 733 active hate groups in 2021, down from the 838 counted in 2020 and the 940 counted in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A form for the U.S. Census 2020 is photographed on March 18, 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, March 10, 2022, released two reports which measure how well the once-a-decade head count tallied every U.S. resident and whether certain populations were undercounted or overrepresented in the count. Any undercounts in various populations…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference about the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” which would designate lynching as a hate crime under federal law, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Emmett Till, pictured at right, was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan arrives to speak during an event with President Joe Biden at the Shipyards, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Lorain, Ohio. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) By Drew Costley ASSOCIATED PRESS The Biden administration recently released a screening tool to help identify disadvantaged communities long plagued by environmental hazards, but…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Former Louisville Police officer Brett Hankison describes what he saw in the apartment of Brionna Taylor during testimony Wednesday, March 2, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. Hankison is currently on trial, charged with wanton endangerment for shooting through Breonna Taylor’s apartment into the home of her neighbors during botched police raid that killed Taylor….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks after President Joe Biden announced Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Cross Hall of the White House, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris listens as right. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) By Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — The…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb., 18, 2022, in her office at the court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) By Mary Clare Jalonick ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge…

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ABOVE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm speaks to reporters after hearing engineering students’ presentations on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, during a visit to South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C. Granholm visited the school to announce $3 million in Energy Department funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions to work on decarbonizing programs….

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ABOVE PHOTO: A family crosses from pro-Russian separatists controlled territory to Ukrainian government controlled areas in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point open daily, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Russia says its recognition of independence for areas in eastern Ukraine extends to territory currently held by Ukrainian forces. The statement…

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