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The silhouette AR-15-style rifle is displayed on signage for the Firearms Unknown Guns & Ammo gun store in Yuma, Ariz., last week.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Gun deaths in the United States reached an all-time high in 2021 for the second year in a row, with firearms violence the single leading cause of death for children and young adults, according to a new study released by Johns Hopkins University.

Fulbeck recalled that Daniel, who could be a bit of a hermit, also lit up in front of a classroom."He had this amazing ability to captivate a room," Fulbeck said."He was just such a vibrant and charismatic lecturer, so passionate about what he was doing and always so poised."Daniel brought that enthusiasm and joy to his work until he died suddenly in November 2022.

Just hours after his City Council term ended, Gil Cedillo released a three-page letter Monday titled "Why I Did Not Resign," in which he shares his thoughts about the racist conversation and leak scandal that tarred his final months in office.Cedillo disappeared from the public stage in mid-October, shortly after The Times reported on the inflammatory backroom conversation, with his spokesperson repeatedly telling reporters that the veteran politician was "at a place of reflection."

President Joe Biden is set to announce on Thursday that he will nominate Air Force chief of staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to a defense official familiar with the plans.The decision follows Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's recommendation to pick Brown as the military's next top officer, the official said.

California is often cited as a bastion of left-leaning politics, with an electorate that voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump by a nearly 2-1 ratio in 2020.But a study of the state's high schools shows that California campuses are just as likely to experience political strife as those in other, more polarized states.

The federal government filed an employment discrimination lawsuit in Louisiana on Thursday against Exxon Mobil after investigating a Black employee's complaint that nooses had been found at a Baton Rouge, La., refinery complex.The lawsuit said that the company created a hostile work environment for the employee, Milferd McGhee, and other workers by failing to implement measures to remedy and prevent harassment after five nooses were found at the complex between April 2016 and December 2020.

Martin Luther King Jr. slowly appeared as Jessica Patterson, a Chicago area artist, daubed paint on a large mural at a Bronzeville school and directed community members to fill in the outlines of his depiction standing amid children.Alexander Perez, 31, took charge of some blue paint and followed Patterson's instructions as the mural - that will hang in the gym at the Donoghue Campus of the UChicago Charter School - began to pop with bright colors.

Do you believe in discussion in our schools?Or do you want the schools to discuss just what you believe?That's the big question that all Americans need to ask themselves right now.And everything really, everything hinges on the answer.Witness two recent news stories, both involving book censorship.

"Consider the Sky and the Sea," by Ayana V. Jackson, is on view at the National Museum of African Art exhibition "From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson."(Collection of the artist/Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Gallery) The premise of Ayana V. Jackson's exhibition at the National Museum of African Art is horrific yet hopeful.

Do you believe in discussion in our schools?Or do you want the schools to discuss just what you believe?That's the big question that all Americans need to ask themselves right now.And everything - really, everything - hinges on the answer.Witness two recent news stories, both involving book censorship.

It's become axiomatic in our political discourse that one of the reasons the anti-abortion crowd became so powerfully persuasive in the decades after Roe is that claiming to speak for a fetus is rhetorically unassailable.If every fertilized egg is a human life, nobody can claim to understand its preferences and hopes and dreams, so substituting the voice of the movement is a simple matter: All fertilized eggs want to live and thrive, goes the theory.

Some people suspect that Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" camp is barely a step away from "Make America White Again."They found a lot of food for that thought in the MAGA world's reaction to this year's Super Bowl pregame show.The show included Sheryl Lee Ralph of "Abbott Elementary" singing James Weldon Johnson's 123-year-old hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing," frequently called the "Black national anthem."

The Navy has renamed a warship in honor of a Black sailor and statesman who had been born into slavery, as part of the US military's ongoing effort to remove names that commemorate the Confederacy.The guided missile destroyer USS Chancellorsville, which was named after a Confederate victory in the Civil War, was renamed the USS Robert Smalls, the Navy announced Monday in a news release.

What does U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal think of Molly Metz's story?In a wide-ranging Clause 8 interview, that is one of the only questions Vidal chooses not to answer directly.While acknowledging that the patent system could use improvements in a variety of areas, Vidal makes it clear she prefers for the focus to be on positive stories about how the U.S. patent system is "the gold standard."

RALEIGH, N.C. - The North Carolina Supreme Court has struck down the legislature's most recent iteration of a photo voter ID law as an unconstitutional measure passed in part to discriminate against AfricanAmerican voters."While most people who have one of the acceptable forms of photo identification do not run the risk of being disenfranchised by this statute, the experiences of plaintiffs and other witnesses at trial showed that for themselves and others like them, the risk of disenfranchisement is very real," the opinion states.

Randall Robinson, a self-described pained victim of stolen identity raised in segregated Virginia who grew up to galvanize Americans against apartheid in South Africa and champion reparations for the descendants of slaves, died on Friday in Basseterre, on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, where he had lived in self-imposed exile from the United States for more than two decades.

By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large-
On February 2, 2023, a press conference was held where I, along with Mayor Sheng Thao, Councilmembers Fife, Reid, Ramachandran, Jenkins, and Gallo, Ray Bobbitt and others in the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG) leadership, business and community leaders, appeared to announce an historic event.

Cedara, the first end-to-end carbon intelligence platform empowering businesses of any size and their employees to seamlessly take climate action, is announcing its partnership with Black Enterprise, the No. 1 Black digital media brand with 12 million unique monthly visitors, to begin their path of decarbonisation and further support their sustainable media strategy.

Under Gov. Ron DeSantis' leadership, Florida has enacted a slew of education rules that limit teaching topics including race, and sexual orientation.Octavio Jones/Getty Images Florida's Department of Education has rejected an Advanced Placement course covering African American Studies saying the class indoctrinates students to "a political agenda."

A rare silk banner proclaiming the abolition of slavery in the British empire in 1834 is to be sold at auction.The blue and gold silk banner reads August 1, 1834 Slavery in the British Dominions Utterly and for every Abolished'.The Slavery Abolition Act freed more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada.

Amina, the celebrated 70-seat Old City restaurant which opened last May by first-time restaurateur Felicia Wilson, is launching a special "Fried Chicken & Prosecco" Wednesday night fundraiser at the restaurant located at 104 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood.The special, which is available now through the end of March 2023, features $5 glasses of prosecco available with the restaurant's Fried Chicken Basket entree, which comes with hand-cut fries, soul slaw and sweet n' sassy sauce and is priced at $26. 100% of the proceeds from prosecco sales will benefit the African American Museum of Philadelphia through the end of March.

I first heard the Christmas spiritual Sweet Little Jesus Boy when I was a small child.It was playing in the background while my grandmother put the finishing touches on the pies, cakes and fixings that would be served for Christmas dinner.While she mixed flour, butter, sugar and salt, Mahalia Jackson's combination of operatic range and Black church soulfulness whirled around in my heart.