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Racial Justice King famously earned his doctorate in theology from Boston University.People in Boston honored Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy Monday by visiting the city's new art display honoring the civil rights leader, reflecting on the way he shaped our country for the better, and protesting for racial justice.

As France was commemorating the end of the second world war in Europe this month, Emmanuel Macron cut an isolated figure on a near-empty Champs-Elysees, surrounded by steel security barriers to prevent any member of the public from getting within shouting, let alone pot-banging, distance.For the first time, and by police order the French people were barrred from a large area ringing the official 8 May remembrance of the liberation.

Hundreds gathered Tuesday evening in the District 5 police station courtyard to honor and mourn Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston, who was fatally shot after returning home from a shift early Saturday.A hush fell over the crowd as a bagpipe played and Preston's family made their way to some chairs in front of a yellow and light blue balloon arch.

Several syringes containing fentanyl and a Molotov cocktail were among several potentially dangerous items found during an operation to clear a public park in Atlanta Monday, local officials said.DeKalb County police headed a multi-jurisdictional operation to clear unauthorized people, vehicles and purported hidden traps at Intrenchment Creek Park and secure its entrances with concrete barriers.

A Cop City protester's hands were raised when law enforcement officers who were attempting to clear the site of a planned police and fire training facility near Atlanta opened fire, an autopsy commissioned by the activist's family found, attorneys say.The hands of Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, 26, who was killed in January, showed exit wounds in both palms, according to a news release from attorneys on Friday.

The Atlanta city council early on Tuesday approved funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center, rejecting the pleas of hundreds of activists who spoke for hours in fierce opposition to the project they decry as Cop City.Some Cop City opponents have faced unprecedented arrests during which police have accused them under a state domestic terrorism statute, prompting a legal challenge which argues that the protesters are being unduly targeted over their constitutionally protected free speech.

A boy, his face out of focus, is walking toward you.He holds a bucket, and there is a slight spring in his steps.In the foreground, clothes hang above the frame, like obstacles preventing you from looking.And this boy, where is he coming from?Where is he going to?Why does he seem happy even though he is surrounded by heaps of trash and bush?

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Tyre Nichols explored Memphis, the city he had moved to in 2020 from Sacramento, through the lens of a camera.Before he died on Jan. 10, after being beaten by Memphis police officers, Mr. Nichols had been an aspiring photographer who shared his work on his personal website.

Photo by Douglas Y. Friday, June 9, 2023 by Jo Clifton
City Council voted 9-1 on Thursday to move forward with funding for an automated license plate reader contract, specifically authorizing the Austin Police Department to hold on to data for just seven days.The police department had argued in favor of 30 days.

Photo by Douglas Y. Thursday, May 18, 2023 by Emma Freer
The Public Safety Commission voted unanimously that City Council approve a pilot program reinstating the Austin Police Department's license-plate reader program - with caveats.Council is due to revisit a new contract for license-plate reader systems and related services with a third-party vendor at its Thursday meeting.

More than 100 loved ones and community members let go of different colored and shaped balloons in the backyard of an elementary school in Calumet Heights to celebrate the "heavenly" birthday of fallen Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston, who would have been 25 Wednesday.The celebration took place at Robert A. Black Magnet Elementary School, of which Preston was an alumni.

As another observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday passed and we once again celebrate Black History month, I'm still haunted by Jonathan Eig's recent op-ed, " We have lost sight of MLK's radical vision."He argues that we have romanticized King's message and "lost sight of his radical anti-poverty and anti-war visions."

An Oak Lawn police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of aggravated battery and official misconduct for his allegedly striking a then 17-year-old Bridgeview teen more than 10 times in the face and head as he was laying face down in the street during an arrest captured on video last July.

Audience shouts and chants criticizing Oak Lawn police at Wednesday night's meeting of the village's Fire & Police Commission led to an abrupt end of the meeting.The crowded Village Hall was filled with people who accuse three Oak Lawn officers of brutality and discrimination in the July 27 arrest of a 17-year-old who fled police during a traffic stop and with people who support the officers' actions.

The story still resonates: More than 60 years ago, Los Angeles police officers were routinely harassing the gay and transgender people who gathered at Cooper Do-nuts, a 24-hour spot in the city's seedy gay circuit known as the Run.Then one evening in May 1959, some fed-up drag queens, hustlers and other customers pushed back, barraging officers with hot coffee and half-eaten crullers.

I'm probably one of the few people who hasn't seen the video footage of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by five Memphis police officers.I haven't watched the video because, honestly, I am tired of seeing Black men die.It shouldn't be normal to participate in a person's last moments like this.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A Maine newspaper that was criticized for publishing an edited version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech has offered an apology.The Bangor Daily News said it had used an abridged version of the speech several times over the years, but it was criticized by a historian, cable news show host and others for "whitewashing" the address over the weekend.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential!If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because with you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Good afternoon, Portland!I know you're used to seeing me over at The Trash Report, but someone forgot to lock up the serious area of the website and I'm the captain now.

Keith Haring at his Pop Shop in SoHo, 1986 Tseng Kwong Chi / Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc./The Keith Haring Foundation In the 1980s, Keith Haring's cartoon-like images were everywhere from t-shirts and New York City streets to art galleries around the world.His figures of dancers, hearts, babies and dogs remain pop culture motifs.

The parents of a South Carolina ninth grader said in a federal lawsuit that a teacher pushed their daughter into a wall after she ignored demands to acknowledge the Pledge of Allegiance as it was broadcast over her high school's intercom.The 15-year-old student, Marissa Barnwell, and her parents said that the school district did not respond to their inquiries about the episode, prompting them to file a federal lawsuit last month.

When it came time for Emmitt Glynn to teach the lesson on the Black Panthers in his AP African American Studies class, he says he was overcome with fear walking into his classroom at Baton Rouge Magnet High School on Feb. 17fear that what happened in that class would be misconstrued by the outside world.

We look at the largely forgotten 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back.It was a time like today, when unions were growing stronger.The workers were on strike against Republic Steel, and the police attacked them with weapons supplied by the company.

Of the 66 books approved, nearly 50 were forced to undergo edits to sections on racial justice in order to be allowed.A close-up image of an opened book in front of a blurred bookshelf filled with books in the background.Getty Images Officials in the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) have rejected dozens of social studies and history textbooks that were submitted for consideration for use by school districts, claiming that the books violate recently-implemented state standards.

It was the commission of a lifetime for this artist, who grew up poor in El Salvador with no formal training: Paint a portrait of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.His personal mission?Make it larger than life, to show a great man, doing great things, with God on his side.Now, Democrats want it back, but where the eight-foot portrait of the former president is anybody's guess.

Glasshouse Images / The Image Bank / Getty Images A 15-year-old in South Carolina is suing her school district for violating her civil rights after a teacher assaulted her in the hallway for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.Marissa Barnwell, a Black honor roll student at River Bluff High School, was walking to her classroom on November 29, 2022 - her birthday - when a teacher, Nicole Livingston, grabbed her and held her against a wall while the pledge was being recited.

Edward D. Mullins, one of the most powerful and combative leaders in the history of the New York City sergeants' union, pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud on Thursday in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization and its members.Mr. Mullins was fraudulently reimbursed for about $1 million that he spent on luxury items and meals at high-end restaurants over nearly two decades as president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors.

Monday was Martin Luther King Day in the United States, a time when Americans honor his legacy, and the civil rights movement that he helped lead.But after reading an insightful book, I have come to think that the story of the civil rights movements that most of us know is incomplete.Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 19321965, by Eric Schickler, a political scientist at Berkeley University, radically shifted my understanding of movements for social change around the world.

Welcome and this is the Conference Finals discussion thread.As there are only one series left in each conference respectively and the Lakers are one of the four teams involved I'm going to do something a little bit different.Of course I'm going to have the different seedings and everything but I wanted to have a bit of a discussion thread for this as well.

The police watchdog has launched an independent investigation into the actions of a Welsh police officer after he was filmed appearing to punch a man repeatedly in the head.Footage of the incident emerged on social media and has caused considerable public concern, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said.

Russian punk band Pussy Riot have released a new song protesting the war in Ukraine and have called for Russian president Vladimir Putin to be tried for his actions.In a statement released alongside the track, titled Mama, Don't Watch TV, they describe Putin's government as a terrorist regime and the president, his officials, generals and propagandists as war criminals.

Here is a look at the life of Amy Klobuchar, US senator from Minnesota and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.Birth date: May 25, 1960 Birth place: Plymouth, Minnesota Birth name: Amy Jean Klobuchar Father: Jim Klobuchar, Star Tribune columnist Mother: Rose (Heuberger) Klobuchar, teacher Marriage: John Bessler (1993-present) Children: Abigail Education: Yale University, B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, 1982; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1985 Religion: Congregationalist (United Church of Christ) Her last name is pronounced KLOW-buh-shar.

Image Jai Paul onstage in New York this week.Credit...Nina Westervelt for The New York Times On Wednesday night, I witnessed something that I never expected to see: a live performance by the mysterious British vocalist and producer Jai Paul.Paul's music full of glitches, strangely compressed sounds and spliced-together samples is unmistakably a product of the digital age, yet his artistic persona could not be further from the era of social-media oversharing and streaming-service savvy.

BusinessUnited States of America 5 minutes ago5 minutes ago The German sporting goods company walked back its claim that BLM's three-stripe logo violated its trademark two days after making the complaint.Sportswear giant Adidas announced on Wednesday that it planned to retract a trademark complaint against Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM) following an outcry.

Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas escalated their attacks on one another as Chicago's mayoral race enters the final week of campaigning before the April 4 election.Monday morning, Vallas held a rally with trade unions supporting his campaign where he denounced an effort to place lawn signs around the city linking him to former President Donald Trump.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the U.S. government over the use of low-flying, military-grade helicopters used to disturb and disperse protesters during the 2020 uprisings following the police murder of George Floyd.The lawsuit was filed on behalf of plaintiff Dzhuliya Dashtamirova, a participant in the protests who said that she suffered personal injuries as a result of the National Guard's use of the helicopters in D.C.

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Pride is returning to southern Brooklyn for yet another year.RUSA LGBTQ+, a network of Russian-speaking individuals and immigrants from parts of the former Soviet Union, will march along the Riegelmann Boardwalk on May 21 to mark the seventh annual edition of Brighton Beach Pride.

High school classmates march in Athens, Greece, during a general strike in March, following a train collision that left 57 people dead, many of them young people.The students chanted, "The young generation will not forgive you."Lydia Emmanouilidou for NPR ATHENS, Greece High school junior Stella Dourou would typically be in class on a weekday.

Last April, Masha Moskaleva, a 12-year-old girl from the Tula region south of Moscow, drew a picture in her school art class that upset the teacher.The teacher ran to the head; the head called the police; the police told the FSB, Russia's state security service, which interrogated Masha.Her father, a single parent, was arrested, beaten, fined and placed under house arrest.

Trugoy the Dove, co-founding member of the iconic hip-hop group De La Soul, has died at the age of 54.A cause of death has not yet been revealed.However, Trugoy was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in recent years.Notably, he did not join fellow De La Soul members Posdnuos and Maseo at last weekend's Grammys tribute to hip-hop.

San Mateo County, Calif., has agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of a Black man who died in 2018 after a sheriff's deputy repeatedly used a Taser on him during a struggle that began when law enforcement officers saw the man jaywalking on a busy street, the county confirmed on Tuesday.The man, Chinedu Valentine Okobi, 36, died on Oct. 3, 2018, after the struggle that day with deputies from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department, who said he had been walking in and out of traffic on a busy street in Millbrae, about 15 miles south of downtown San Francisco.

(CNN)Prosecutors in Memphis, Tennessee, will review all cases that involved the five officers charged in the brutal beating death of Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop, the district attorney's office said, as newly released documents show a sixth officer involved in the encounter lied in his statements to investigators.

Though I have been a reader of crime fiction all of my adult life, I avoided the work of Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) until my early 30s.Bleak worldviews weren't the issue; perhaps it was the unconscious feeling that spending too much time in Highsmith's brain might alter mine irrevocably.What finally opened the trapdoor was Joan Schenkar's nonlinear, idiosyncratic biography, The Talented Miss Highsmith (2009).

When Christina Foster's 12-year-old daughter was in fourth grade, she got her hair braided, a style she wore often.One afternoon, while Foster was picking up her daughter from school, the teacher pulled her aside."She said, 'I recommend that you not braid your daughter's hair because she flips and plays with it in class.

At the beginning of this school year, a Philadelphia student asked a question that briefly took her teacher's breath away: Are you more Malcolm or are you more Martin?Keziah Ridgeway, 37, who teaches African American historya required class in the citysaid the student added that Martin Luther King, Jr. was more peaceful and that Malcom X was more violent.

In a span of 25 hours, three men of color died after encounters with Los Angeles police officers.Could a change in tactics long asked for by activists have prevented the deaths?Today, we talk about the incidents, the aftermath - and what's next.Read the full transcript here.Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times investigative crime reporter Richard Winton and L.A. Times metro columnist Erika D. Smith
More reading: Column: MLK had a dream about ending police brutality.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 I Have A Dream speech is too often reduced to just that one emblematic line: a hazy wish for a distant, racism-free future.In reality, King's speech, like many of his orations, was blistering and urgent, dealing not in dreams but cold, hard realities about America.A new project from TIME Studios, released on Thursday Jan. 12, allows users to explore the relevance and power of King's Dream speech sixty years later through virtual reality.

Author Jerry Craft wrote New Kid, which has faced challenges in some school districts.Kaz Fantone/NPR This essay by Jerry Craft is part of a series of interviews with  and essays by  authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S. If you are a parent or a caregiver and your kid reads a book and identifies with the antagonist (you know, the bad guy), then you have not done your job as a parent.

We did it, Portland!We made it to the end of yet another year in this particular multiverse, and have a lot to show for it.From a monumental vote to overhaul our city's form of government, to Patriot Prayer rioters getting their day in court, to a controversial energy company pledging to stop transporting crude oil through Portland, 2022 really had it all.