• about-California
• Reparations
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Written by SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America

Published: 07 May 2023

 

California’s historic reparations task force has voted to approve recommendations for possible payments to Black residents and a formal apology for the state’s role in perpetuating discriminatory policies. The nine-member committee took a series of votes Saturday on its final report to lawmakers, which is officially due July 1

• about-Native-Americans
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Written by By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press

Published: 05 May 2023

(Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File) 

Native Americans whose relatives have gone missing or been killed wore red on Friday, a color synonymous with raising awareness about the disproportionate number of Indigenous people who have been victims of violence

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Written by By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

Published: 05 May 2023

Fort Gregg-Adams (Photo/ NNPA) 

A redesignation ceremony is planned for Thursday, April 27, honoring the two Black officers whom officials said excelled in the field of sustainment and made significant marks in U.S. Army history.

• about-McDonalds
• about-Black-entrepreurship

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Written by by BOTWC Staff

Published: 04 May 2023

(Photo/ Lauren Copeland Mitchell/LinkedIn/McDonald’s) 

Currently, Mitchell  has one of the top-performing locations in the city and is making history as one of the youngest Black women McDonald’s franchise owners at just 35 years old.

• about-films
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Written by ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer

Published: 04 May 2023

(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) 

The union representing 11,500 writers of film, television and other entertainment forms are now on strike. It's the first writers’ strike — and the first Hollywood strike of any kind — in 15 years

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Written by STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press

Published: 04 May 2023

 

A judge has found a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter.

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• Jan 6 Hearings

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Written by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

Published: 04 May 2023

(AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) 

It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Biden out of the White House at all costs.

• about-Texas
• about-gun-violence

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Written by By JUAN A. LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press

Published: 03 May 2023

(Montgomery County Jail via AP) 

A woman identified as the wife of a Texas man suspected of killing five of his neighbors was arrested Wednesday for allegedly helping the man elude capture for four days

• about-student-loans
• about-credit
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Written by CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press Writers

Published: 03 May 2023

(Photo/ Maximillian Conacher) 

Rates on credit cards, mortgages and auto loans, which have been surging since the Fed began raising rates last year, all stand to rise even more. The result will be more burdensome loan costs for both consumers and businesses.

• about-social-media
• about-sexual-abuse

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Written by Eden Kamar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Christian Jordan Howell, University of South Florida

Published: 03 May 2023

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Social media sites and chatrooms are the most common methods used to facilitate contact with kids, and abuse occurs both online and offline. Increasingly, predators are using advances in technology to engage in technology-facilitated sexual abuse.