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A decade of racial justice activism transformed politics, but landmark reforms remain elusive
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One is of Michael Brown. Brown’s...
Michael Brown's death a decade ago set off a new chapter of social change
NEW YORK (AP) — There have been moments before, times of heartbreak and grief that led to anger and calls for justice. Sometimes, they never make it past a few sparks. Sometimes they smolder for a little bit before dying out. And sometimes, in certain conditions, they light a fire. ...
Jury awards $6M to family members of Black Lives Matter protester killed by a car on Seattle freeway
SEATTLE (AP) — A jury in Seattle ruled Thursday that the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a Black Lives Matter protester on a closed interstate must pay the protester’s family $6 million. The same King County jury found the state of Washington was not negligent in the...
Why Black students are still disciplined at higher rates: Takeaways from AP's report
Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial injustice. A decade later, change has been slow to materialize. In many schools around the country, Black students have been more likely...
Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump advertises his firm on patches worn by US Open tennis players
NEW YORK (AP) — Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump is advertising on players' outfits at the U.S. Open Grand Slam tennis tournament this week, placing his firm's name on sponsor patches worn during matches. “Ben Crump Law” appeared on the left sleeve of the blue shirt worn...
Prominent civil rights lawyer represents slain US airman's family. A look at Ben Crump's past cases
NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a Black U.S. Air Force airman gunned down by a sheriff's deputy in Florida is represented by a prominent civil rights lawyer dubbed “ Black America’s attorney general ” for his role in some of the most consequential cases of police brutality over the past...
From Ferguson to Minneapolis, AP reporters recall flashpoints of the Black Lives Matter movement
WASHINGTON (AP) — On May 28, 2020, Associated Press photographer Julio Cortez got a call asking him to head to Minneapolis from the East Coast. What he saw on the ground was unlike any protest he’d ever covered. It was then that he knew something had shifted in the Black Lives Matter movement....
Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race
Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County town located...
Ferguson officer critically injured at protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown's death
A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city's police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement, police said Saturday. Ferguson police chief...
Timeline of events in Ferguson, Missouri, after a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer drove by and told them to use the sidewalk. After words were exchanged, the white...
