Final Confederate monument to come down in New Orleans
Workers tied ropes around a towering statue of Gen. Robert E Lee, preparing to take down the last of New Orleans’ four Confederate monuments Friday as hundreds looked and some danced in the streets....
View ArticleBlack gun owners worried by acquittal in Philando Castile shooting
Gerry Martin isn’t sure he will ever tell a police officer during a traffic stop that he has a concealed-weapon permit — and possibly a weapon — on him. The acquittal of a Minnesota officer in the...
View ArticleMinnesota police shooting isn’t only death of 911 caller
WASHINGTON — The fatal shooting of an unarmed Australian woman in Minnesota isn’t by any means the first-time police in the U.S. have mistakenly killed someone who called them for help or to report a...
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Violence adds momentum to removal of Confederate statues
Cities and states accelerated their plans to remove Confederate monuments from public property Tuesday as the violence over a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved leaders across the...
View ArticleAmerica still in turmoil a year after Colin Kaepernick’s protest
What started as a protest against police brutality has mushroomed a year later into a divisive debate over the future of a football player who refused to stand for the national anthem and now faces...
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Trump revives debate on hate groups, then condemns them
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a resolution condemning white supremacists and hate groups, hours after reviving his assertion that there were “bad dudes” among the people...
View ArticleNFL anthem protests evolve past Colin Kaepernick’s original intent
What began more than a year ago with an NFL quarterback protesting police brutality against minorities by kneeling silently during the national anthem before games has grown into a roar with hundreds...
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Barack Obama to campaign in N.J., Virginia governor races
WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is stepping back into the political spotlight for the first time since leaving the White House, publicly stumping for Democratic gubernatorial candidates in...
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Poll: 50 years after MLK, civil rights goals unmet
WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement he...
View ArticleStar Trek’s interracial kiss 50 years ago heralded change
WASHINGTON — It was the kiss heard around the galaxy. Fifty years ago — and only one year after the U.S. Supreme Court declared interracial marriage was legal — two of science fiction’s most enduring...
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