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A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks' 'All About Love'

Mar. 12, 2024 08:45 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — In the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and how to better herself. She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions." “I loved it. It takes seriously a subject...

Today in History: March 12, jazz legend Charlie 'Bird' Parker dies at 34

Mar. 12, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2024. There are 294 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 12, 1955, legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker died in New York at age 34. On...

Minnesota is poised to give school resource officers clearer authority to use force

Mar. 04, 2024 17:33 PM EST

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers are on the verge of a compromise that will give police officers who work in schools clearer authority to use force. Minnesota reacted to the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer with a series of police accountability...

Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders

Mar. 01, 2024 22:04 PM EST

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison in a rare prosecution of medical responders following the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020. ...

Walz signs his first bill of the 2-week-old legislative session, fixes error to save taxpayers $350M

Feb. 26, 2024 16:52 PM EST

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz signed his first bill of the two-week-old 2024 legislative session on Monday, a correction to last year's main tax bill that could have cost Minnesota taxpayers around $350 million next year. The governor signed the bill with little fanfare,...

Labor board: Home Depot violated labor law by firing an employee who drew 'BLM' on work apron

Feb. 21, 2024 18:16 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's labor board ruled on Wednesday that Home Depot violated federal labor law when it fired an employee for refusing to remove the hand-drawn “BLM” acronym for “Black Lives Matter” from a work apron. The National Labor Relations Act said it protects...

Law enforcement in schools dominates 1st day of the Minnesota Legislature's 2024 session

Feb. 12, 2024 16:50 PM EST

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Legislature convened Monday with lawmakers fast-tracking legislation to fix a law enacted last year that limits the powers of police who work in schools to restrain disruptive students. The change was one of several restrictions on the use of...

Finding meaning in George Floyd’s death through protest art left at his murder site

Feb. 09, 2024 04:00 AM EST

PHOENIX (AP) — For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism. Now...

Minnesota trooper accused of fatally shooting motorist Ricky Cobb II makes first court appearance

Jan. 29, 2024 19:04 PM EST

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper accused in the fatal shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II can remain free without bail while awaiting trial, a judge ruled Monday during a brief court hearing. Trooper Ryan Londregan must surrender his passport and avoid contact with...

Seattle will pay $10 million to protesters who said police used excessive force during 2020 protests

Jan. 25, 2024 18:38 PM EST

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020, in a settlement announced by attorneys from both sides Wednesday. The protesters were among tens of thousands...