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Akron, Ohio, sets downtown curfew, cancels fireworks in wake of Jayland Walker protests
"Significant property damage done to downtown" following protests over the police killing of the Black motorist prompted the decision, Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan said.
Ohio police release graphic bodycam video in fatal shooting of Jayland Walker
Eight officers were placed on administrative leave as the Ohio attorney general’s office leads the investigation.
Thousands of federal inmates still await early release under Trump-era law, advocates say
The Justice Department implemented a key feature of the law in which inmates can earn so-called time credits. But there have been failures, prisoner advocates and inmates say.
8 Akron, Ohio, police officers placed on leave following killing of Black motorist
Large trucks and snow plows, meant to be street barriers, were moved downtown overnight as the city braces for protests in the wake of Jayland Walker's death.
Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court
Jackson, a former public defender and federal appeals court judge, replaces Justice Stephen Breyer, who has officially retired from the high court.
Black men feel 'helpless and hopeless' as Black women brace for post-Roe America
Black men worry the end of Roe could force Black women to resort to desperate measures to terminate unwanted pregnancies, putting their health — and families — in peril.
Georgia police chief urged to resign after Black man’s fatal shooting
Religious leaders and advocates in Savannah are calling for Police Chief Roy Minter’s resignation after officer-involved shootings, including one that killed a Black man last week.
Emmett Till's family wants woman arrested after warrant unearthed 67 years later
The unserved warrant from 1955 charges a white woman who accused the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances.
Man gets 2 years in prison after racially motivated threats, calling area a 'white town'
Colton Donner saw a Black man walking in a residential area of Paola, Kansas, in 2019. He threatened him with a knife to interfere with the man’s right to fair housing, officials said.
University of Cincinnati removes name of founder who owned enslaved people
Four campus spaces will be scrubbed of the name of Charles McMicken, a Cincinnati businessman who owned enslaved people in the 19th century.
Anti-Black, gay, Asian bias fuel California hate crime surge
The state's attorney general said "the epidemic of hate we saw spurred on during the pandemic remains a clear and present threat."
