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Three years after George Floyd was murdered by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the Justice Department issued a blistering report Friday of the city's police department, detailing racial discrimination, excessive and unlawful use of force, First Amendment violations and a lack of accountability for officers.

The Justice Department accused the Minneapolis Police Department of rampant discrimination, unlawful conduct and systemic mismanagement in a scathing 89-page report released on Friday.The federal investigation, launched in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer, found that the systemic problems in M.P.D. made what happened to George Floyd possible.

Scientists are studying police camera footage to understand why some car stops of Black men escalate and others don't.Hill Street Studios/Getty Images When a police officer stops a Black driver, the first 45 words said by that officer hold important clues about how their encounter is likely to go.Car stops that result in a search, handcuffing, or arrest are nearly three times more likely to begin with the police officer issuing a command, such as "Keep your hands on the wheel" or "Turn the car off."

Law enforcement officers amass along Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 29, 2020.David Jolesi / Star Tribune via Getty Images The Department of Justice has released a scathing, 89-page report of the Minneapolis Police Department conducted after the police murder of George Floyd, shedding light on the culture of unlawful police violence and rampant racism that laid the groundwork for Floyd's murder three years ago.

Firearms were the leading cause of death for children in 2021, surpassing COVID deaths.An AR-15 style weapon, a magazine with bullets and different style of bullets are displayed on a table on September 23, 2022, in Aurora, Colorado.Joshua Lott / The Washington Post via Getty Images New research based on the latest publicly available data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention finds that 2021 was a record year for gun deaths in the U.S., with deaths hitting a record high for the second year in a row.

We dedicate the show to remembering Malcolm X on what would have been his 98th birthday Friday.We begin with an address by world-renowned abolitionist, author and activist Angela Davis on Malcolm's legacy, attacks on the teaching of Black history by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and more."This is a time to reflect deeply on the long struggle for liberation," Davis said.

Atlanta KFF Health News When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician.As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations.But that day in spring 2021, as Destiny intervened, for several minutes the patient punched, kicked, and bit her.

ATLANTA When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician.As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations.But that day in spring 2021, as Destiny intervened, for several minutes the patient punched, kicked, and bit her.

One person died and four were injured in a shooting at a medical office building in downtown Atlanta on May 3. The violence came one day after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hospital safety act into law.Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images ATLANTA When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician.

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As they workshop their proposal to open a new casino in Coney Island, Thor Equities, the team of developers behind the bid, have announced they believe the new gaming facility would bring roughly 4,000 union jobs to the neighborhood.

In a heady swirl of bright white silk and lace, the young ladies of the Cotillion Society of Detroit Educational Foundation are presented as debutantes.The Society's annual ball is the culmination of eight months of etiquette lessons, leadership workshops, community service projects and cultural events.

State courts in every state highlighted on this map have cited cases involving enslaved people in the 1980s or later.Citing Slavery Project, Michigan State University This story starts but certainly doesn't end in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will.Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not free the enslaved people he owned and give them all of his property.

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"With the trust that you placed in me, I'm going to continue to do everything in my power to bring our city together.This is an honor I don't take lightly."Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price, standing in his usual spot behind the horseshoe at City Hall, delivered those words with supreme confidence last October.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature will soon receive a sweeping set of recommended reparations for African Americans whose ancestors suffered economically from slavery and racial discrimination.Then what?Then the governor and lawmakers will need to emerge from cover, face the public and devise a better response than we've been hearing: "I'm waiting for the final report of recommendations."

Austin has a reputation for a lot of things, from being a college town to the epicenter of the state's always bizarre and sometimes evil politics to the hotbed of barbecue and tacos.However, there's another aspect of the city that is glaringly amiss: its tiny Black population.This is why a new coffee shop and bar, and community space, Origin Studio House, is intent on centering the city's Black denizens on its grounds at 2925 East 12th Street in Rosewood in September.

San Francisco's efforts to eradicate downtown open-air drug markets and reduce historic overdose rates ramped up in the last month with announcements that police and 130 sheriff's deputies will be deployed to increase arrests.The new push is part of an ongoing strategy that will, as of today, include the opening of an in-person Drug Market Agency Coordination Center near Civic Center to coordinate "engagement, enforcement, and treatment" of drug use and sales, according to the mayor's office.

WANNABE: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me, by Aisha Harris Being a Black critic in a time of exceptional art made by Black people has immense rewards and myriad risks.Wannabe, the debut essay collection from Aisha Harris, a co-host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, is at its best when engaging with those risks and the thorny questions of her profession.

With her withering glares and colossal wigs, Queen Charlotte has become a treasured character in the first two seasons of Bridgerton, the steamy hit Netflix series set in an alternate, racially diverse version of Regency Era Britain.As played by Golda Rosheuvel, she is a hard-line matriarch with an ear for gossip and an eye for beauty.

Alan Cumming has voiced hope his involvement in A Strange Loop will broaden the demographic who attend the play's premiere in London.The Scottish actor, known for GoldenEye and X-Men 2, is a producer of the musical which is opening at the Barbican Theatre on Saturday after a successful Broadway run.

Claudia Rankine says that learning she had been conceived as a product of rape had given her more compassion for her mother.The award-winning US poet said the pair had become women who shared something and she had felt released by knowing she was not biologically attached to the violent man she thought to be her father.

A South London-based charity is using poetry as an outlet to give young people a voice and says writing poems is helping young people, especially men, feel safe discussing their feelings.Poetic Unity, a grassroots charity founded in Brixton, focuses on supporting young people, especially those from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, through employment, the cost-of-living crisis, mental health and black British history initiatives and programs.

"Don't let a fascist tell you what being woke means," she said.Rep. Cori Bush speaks to reporters as she arrives for a House Democrat caucus meeting with White House debt negotiators at the U.S. Capitol on May 31, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images On Tuesday, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) lifted the veil on Republicans' war on "woke," saying aloud what the GOP won't admit: that their use of the word as a pejorative is just a thin disguise for their contempt toward Black people.

Eighty-two million yearsthat's how much lifetime the U.S.'s Black population lost because of premature deaths between 1999 and 2020, a new study shows.The numbers are an alarming reminder of concerning gaps in health careand they are not entirely surprising, according to experts on racial health disparity.

Lawyers for three Black men wrongly convicted of murder have applied for their sentences to be reviewed on account of institutional racism within the courts.The families of Durrell Goodall, Reano Walters and Nathanial Williams submitted an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) on Friday to clear their children's names for the 2016 murder of Abdul Hafidah, 18, in Moss Side, Manchester.

King Charles has been urged to go further towards offering reparatory justice for the UK's role in transatlantic slavery, even as he was praised for reportedly ignoring Boris Johnson's advice to avoid the issue at all costs.Academics and campaigners called on Charles to adopt specific measures to help build an understanding of the legacy of the enslavement of black people, as well as putting forward suggestions for how the UK could work towards making amends.

"A lot of 'dones,' a lot of 'ols,'" she said.Some of them helped her sleep, but left her feeling numb.She recalled thinking, "I still feel sad, so what are we doing here, antidepressants?"Diamond was curious whether a clinically guided mushroom trip would help, and she enrolled in this clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in "magic mushrooms," for her type of bipolar depression.

On the day of Brandon Johnson's inauguration as mayor, an op-ed by Paul Vallas was published in the Tribune ( "Assault on standardized tests allows schools to shun accountability," May 15).The op-ed decries grade inflation and the low academic achievement scores of minority students in Chicago Public Schools.

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 15.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Constitutional lawyer Michael Waldman says that there's an increasing distance between the American people and the Supreme Court.He points out that Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections, but Republican presidents have appointed six of the nine justices now on the Supreme Court.

Simran Jeet Singh, pictured here in the days after the attack on the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012, says he turned to his faith to help him through.Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images Some of the most contented people I know are really good at forgiveness.They do not hold grudges.They have the ability to look at the person who has harmed them and see beyond that particular action, insult or slight even the most grievous.

In a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), federal researchers acknowledge in detail that police-perpetrated killings are a major cause of violent death in the United States, and Black and Indigenous men are disproportionally killed by police compared to all other groups tracked in the data.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who directed the prosecution of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, is releasing a book about his experience.Scott Olson/Getty Images Minneapolis police officers murdered George Floyd three years ago this week.Video captured how Derek Chauvin, who is white, used his knee to pin Floyd, a Black man, to the ground for more than nine minutes while Floyd pleaded for his life.

Having scoured the internet's seedy underbelly, DarkBERT suggests that, in the future, AI may play an even bigger role in online policing

The other day, I received a text from my boss-or, at least, someone claiming to be my boss."Good morning Camille, are you available at the moment?I am at a meeting and limited to calls, but I am good to go with texts if that works," the message read.

This article is also a weekly newsletter.Sign up for Race/Related here.Ten years ago, I lived in Washington, D.C., and would watch cranes dotting the landscape all across the northern banks of the Anacostia River.I was recently back in the city, and now the cranes have been replaced with high-rises.

Stanley Engerman, one of the authors of a deeply researched book that, wading into the fraught history of American slavery, argued that it was a rational, viable economic system and that enslaved Black people were more efficient workers than free white people in the North, died on May 11 in Watertown, Mass.

PHILADELPHIA The afternoon before Election Day, Jennifer Robinson, 41, was trying to manage her two small children in the quiet corner of a public library in a pocket of her city that had endured generations of abandonment.She was despondent about the state of Philadelphia, most of all about the crime, but she talked about the mayoral primary as if it had little bearing on any of it.

Five months after a blizzard devastated western New York, killing 31 residents of Buffalo, a report released on Friday cited multiple failures in the city's response to the blinding snowfall that whipped through the region for three days, trapping many people in their cars, homes and workplaces.Emergency warnings from city officials did not adequately convey how life-threatening the storm would be, the report said.

Little is known about the political views of Daniel Penny, the ex-Marine charged with fatally choking Jordan Neely on a New York City subway.But since Mr. Penny's arrest on Friday on second-degree manslaughter charges, he has been quickly embraced by right-wing political figures and groups.A campaign to raise money for his legal defense set up on GiveSendGo, a self-described Christian crowdfunding site that was also used to raise funds for some of those arrested in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol had raised more than $1.8 million as of Sunday night.

Five months before he murdered 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, Peyton Gendron wrote in his online diary that he had found a gun, one fixed with a locking device sold by a Georgia company.The device, called an MA lock, ostensibly should have hindered Mr. Gendron, a white supremacist intent on killing as many Black people as possible.

In February, 2014, in the war-torn Central African Republic, Christian fighters were rampaging through a predominantly Muslim district in the capital, Bangui.The renowned Cameroonian-born portrait photographer Samuel Fosso had already fled.While looters stripped the corrugated iron roof off Fosso's vacated studio, three men tried to save his abandoned archive.

The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts , better known as BECMA, represents Black-owned businesses across the state.The group has an unusual origin story.Not too many organizations trace their origins to a Federal Reserve study, but, then again, the study in question was no ordinary report.Published in 2015 and titled , the findings of the report commissioned by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston were striking.

Aderrien Murry, 11, called the police as his mother asked but when officers arrived, one of them shot him in the chest.A new lawsuit says officials failed to train and supervise its officers.Courtesy of Nakala Murry The family of Aderrien Murry has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Indianola, Miss., and at least two police officials, after an officer shot 11-year-old Murry in the chest after the boy placed a 911 call on May 20.

Dozens of supporters of the Walgreens shooting victim Banko Brown rallied and marched to San Francisco City Hall Monday evening, expressing rage at video of the shooting and the decision by the district attorney today not to press charges against the security guard who shot Brown."Do you think it was murder?" chanted Nancy Robles, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which organized the rally.

Two Metropolitan Police officers are being criminally investigated for manslaughter after a man was shot with a Taser and then fell from a balcony to his death.The man, who was Black, died after he fell in Peckham, south London.He later succumbed to his injuries.Despite extensive efforts by the police, the man is yet to be formally identified, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is leading this investigation.

Black people in the United States experienced 1.63 million excess deaths when compared to white people over a 22-year period, according to a new study published Tuesday.A Yale-led group of physicians and health equity scholars set out to analyze excess deaths for the U.S. Black population compared to their white counterparts, from 1999 through 2020.

Former Cubs and White Sox pitcher Jeff Samardzija once insisted "you can always get a good nap in during the Sox game."It was meant as a compliment to Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, though Samardzija later had to explain himself to the Sox broadcaster.As baseball turns the first corner in its speeded-up season this Memorial Day weekend, White Sox and Cubs fans turn to their porches and patios to soak in warm summerlike breezes and perhaps sneak in a quick nap with the ballgame as mere backdrop.

My son is a comedian.When his comedian friends come to my town for gigs, I put them up.Recently, I hosted a Black friend of his I am white and we talked about a famous Black comic.I paraphrased one of the comic's jokes that impressed me: A TV censor allowed the comic to use the N-word but objected to his use of a gay slur.

Despite the continuing rise in opioid overdose deaths, one of the most effective treatments for opioid addiction is still drastically underprescribed in the United States, especially for Black patients, according to a large new study.From 2016 through 2019, scarcely more than 20 percent of patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder filled prescriptions for buprenorphine, the medication considered the gold standard in opioid addiction treatment, despite repeated visits to health care providers, according to the study, which was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"I think sometimes when people hear about the show," comedian Dulcé Sloan tells the Mercury, "they're like 'no no no!'" She's describing a solo comedic theater piece, called Don't Reach in the Bag, which was written and performed by her fellow stand-up Shalewa Sharpe about working in an adult video store in the late '90s and early '00s.

Credit...Desiree Rios/The New York Times Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software and despite big advances in computer vision the tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.By Nico Grant and Kashmir HillMay 22, 2023 When Google released its stand-alone Photos app in May 2015, people were wowed by what it could do: analyze images to label the people, places and things in them, an astounding consumer offering at the time.

Uber has placed its longtime head of diversity, equity and inclusion on leave after workers complained that an employee event she moderated, titled Don't Call Me Karen, was insensitive to people of color.Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's chief executive, and Nikki Krishnamurthy, the chief people officer, last week asked Bo Young Lee, the head of diversity, to step back and take a leave of absence while we determine next steps, according to an email on Thursday from Ms. Krishnamurthy to some employees that was viewed by The New York Times.

The ubiquitous lunch bowl is typically not the most exciting meal of anyone's day, but Nubian Markets - a combination cafe, butchery, and grocer that celebrated its grand opening this week in Roxbury's Nubian Square, at 2565 Washington Street - is not playing to expectations.Founded by chef Ismail Samad and Yusuf Yassin, the market is using the humble lunch bowl (and a few sandwiches) to tell a lesser-seen story about the intersection of the African and Muslim diaspora, in a zero-waste kitchen, in concert with a halal butchery and grocery store that puts local Black and brown purveyors front and center on its shelves.

Following the controversy over a Milan design week exhibition that displayed offensive figurines, Stephen Burks considers what the incident says about the design industry and its approach to race.Three weeks ago in Milan, I found myself face-to-face with direct racial aggression.As part of the Campo Base group show curated by Federica Sala, the architect Massimo Adario presented a collection of decorative glass objects made in the 1920s embodying racist stereotypes.

The Southeast Community Center on Evans Avenue is a sprawling building on San Francisco's east side.It's right on the border of Mission Bay, Dogpatch, Hunter's Point, and the Bayview and opened in October 2022 with the intent to bring dynamism and accessibility to the area; there are swinging chairs, grilling stations, and slides where kids can play.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.At last, a deputy whom Rishi Sunak can trust.Trust to be thoroughly mediocre.The last thing an interim prime minister there's an unquestionable lightness of being to Rish!: even he doesn't seem to know what he stands for who is grooming his party for opposition really wants is a number two biting at his heels.

A Home Office minister was heckled by people caught up the Windrush scandal during a heated meeting in Westminster called to draw attention to the slow progress in assisting those affected by the department's mistakes.Simon Murray said it was painful to hear accounts from people describing their difficulties receiving documentation and compensation, five years after the government first apologised.

Among the many efforts to decenter whiteness in academia and other left-leaning institutions is one to take on the presumed racist tendencies embodied in musicology.It's an issue that has nagged at me for years and one exemplified by a new book, the Hunter College music professor Philip Ewell's On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone.

M et Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley was crazy and disrespectful to black Londoners by failing to accept that his force is institutionally racist, the author of a damning report into his force said on Monday.Baroness Louise Casey said Sir Mark had gone down a rabbit hole by refusing to accept her verdict that institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia is at the root of the problems which have engulfed the Met in a succession of scandals.

In a panel discussion this week at the Canary Wharf HQ of Barclays, which backed our two-year initiative with a 1 million donation, once unemployed youths told a 100-strong audience how their lives had been transformed.I know now that I am enough, said one.I feel there is no ceiling on what I can do, said another.

Here are the AP's latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content.All times EDT.For up-to-the minute information on AP's coverage, visit Coverage Plan.- TOP STORIES - GERMANY-UKRAINE German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Berlin on his first visit to the country since Russia invaded Ukraine.

President Joe Biden previewed his 2024 election pitch to young Black voters Saturday in commencement remarks at a Howard University graduation ceremony in Washington, DC, articulating his vision of a future for all Americans, Biden's speech to graduates of the historically Black university had deep political undertones, and he reiterated to graduates that the work to redeem the soul of the nation continues, a phrase he uses often to contrast himself with his predecessor, Donald Trump, who is seeking a return to the White House next year.

A mental health hotline for new and expectant parents received more than 12,000 calls and texts in its first year, with a surge in January after Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy allegedly killed her children, according to data first shared with NBC News.The federally funded National Maternal Mental Health Hotline launched last Mother's Day and has averaged about 1,000 interactions per month, said a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration.

Democratic South Carolina Sen. Ronnie Sabb speaks against a bill restricting how teachers discuss race in K-12 classrooms on Wednesday, May 11, 2023 in Columbia, S.C.James Pollard (AP) South Carolina Republicans are one step closer to restricting how teachers discuss race in K-12 classrooms.As conservatives nationwide push bans on so-called critical race theory, the state Senate passed a likeminded effort Wednesday in a late night 27-10 vote after nearly six hours of debate.

Visitors explore the exhibition "Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)"Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures," a showcase of artifacts at the National Museum of African American History and Culture gathered from the worlds of art, music, film, literature and history, takes visitors on an immersive trip - one that navigates and reimagines the past, present and future of the Black experience and the history of Black liberation.

It's no longer us against them.Last week, the ANA released its latest report on in-housing, authored by ANA Group EVP Bill Duggan, which found that 82% of marketers now have in-house agencies, up from 78% in 2018.(The ANA conducts the study every five years.)Duggan noted that while marketers have been increasing in-housing in recent years, most still work with external agencies.