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Judge finds bathroom graffiti violated civil rights act, orders teen to write essay

May. 18, 2023 12:29 PM EDT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teenager has been ordered to write a 3,000-word essay discussing “the impact of racism and racist speech on society” after a judge found that he violated the state's civil rights act by carving graffiti inside a high school bathroom directed at a Black...

New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

Apr. 26, 2023 14:27 PM EDT

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of robed Ku Klux Klansmen gathered around a burning cross in a remote field in North Florida. It was December 2014, and after the cross lighting ceremony ended, three klansmen asked for a quiet aside with the group’s Grand Knighthawk, a klan hitman. The...

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Apr. 25, 2023 15:19 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home,...

Race issues dog 'wild card' prosecutor in Ronald Greene case

Mar. 22, 2023 09:07 AM EDT

FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — In this conservative corner of northern Louisiana, where reverence for law enforcement runs deep and Blue Lives Matter flags often fly alongside the Stars and Stripes, the case of five white officers charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene is seen...