Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Roofer Anthony Brookins poses for a photo on the porch of a friend’s home on Detroit’s westside, Friday, July 28, 2023. That home and his own home have no central air conditioning. (AP Photo/Corey Williams) By Jesse BedaynASSOCIATED PRESSDENVER — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Attorney Warren Brown speaks to the media after his client, a 15-year-old squeegee worker, was found guilty of manslaughter for killing Timothy Reynolds at Conway and Light Streets last year, in Baltimore, Thursday, July 27, 2023. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP) By Lea SkeneASSOCIATED PRESSBALTIMORE — Following a weeklong criminal trial rife…

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By Mike SchneiderASSOCIATED PRESSABOVE PHOTO: In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017 photo, older and newer generations of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity pose for a photograph during the Hall-Archer-Pickard Naming Celebration at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. (Kaytie Boomer/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP) ORLANDO, Fla. — The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to the press in Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2023, after former President Donald Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts relating to efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Francis Chung/POLITICO…

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ABOVE PHOTO: J. Vasquez, a representative with the Communities United For Restorative Justice, speaks in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., June 14, 2023. Vasquez is part of a coalition that is criticizing the California governor’s administration over a proposed change to a 2021 landmark law — a change that could make it…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Attorney Ben Crump, second from left, walks with Ron Lacks, left, Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, both grandsons of Henrietta Lacks, and other descendants of Lacks, whose cells have been used in medical research without her permission, outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. They announced during a news…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver attends a bill signing ceremony at the state capital in Trenton, N.J., Aug. 5, 2019. Oliver, who rose to become one of New Jersey’s most prominent Black leaders and passionately advocated for revitalizing cities and against gun violence, died on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. She was 71. (AP Photo/Matt…

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By Aaron MorrisonASSOCIATED PRESSABOVE PHOTO: Mamie Till Mobley stands before a portrait of her slain son, Emmett Till, in her Chicago home on July 28, 1995. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser) As President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment…

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By Emily Wagster PettusASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division speaks, June 1, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) JACKSON, Miss. — A new Mississippi law discriminates against residents of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson by requiring the appointment of some…

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By Sudhin ThanawalaASSOCIATED PRESSABOVE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock delivers remarks as Christine King Farris lies in state during a ceremony at the Georgia State Capitol, in Atlanta, Friday, July 14, 2023. (Natrice Miller/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock were among scores of mourners who paid…

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