AARON MORRISON

For the past decade, “Stand Your Ground” laws have been invoked time and time again by gun owners who claim self-defense after carrying out shootings.

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Who gets to claim self-defense in shootings? Airman鈥檚 death sparks debate over race and gun rights

May 15, 2024 at 1:59 p.m.

For the past decade, “Stand Your Ground” laws have been invoked time and time again by gun owners who claim self-defense after carrying out shootings.

For many people old enough to remember O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, his 1994 exoneration was a defining moment in their understanding of race, policing and justice.

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In death, 3 decades after his trial verdict, O.J. Simpson still reflects America鈥檚 racial divides

April 12, 2024 at 12:50 p.m.

For many people old enough to remember O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, his 1994 exoneration was a defining moment in their understanding of race, policing and justice.

Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. The historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom remains a marker by which progress is measured. But that progress — namely civil and voting rights legislation passed in the mid-1960s — teeters precariously on the edge of partisanship. On Saturday, civil rights leaders and their allies mark 60 years since the original March on Washington, and they hope to recapture the spark that forever changed America.

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At March on Washington鈥檚 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights

August 23, 2023 at 6:48 p.m.

Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. The historic March on...

As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn鈥檛 have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity.

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Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice

August 13, 2023 at 12:45 p.m.

As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn鈥檛 have known the footage would elicit a national conversation...

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be located across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi and will be federally protected places. Till’s family and a national organization seeking to preserve Black cultural heritage sites say their work protecting the Till legacy continues after the Democratic president’s signing. They're raising money to restore each of the sites for inclusion in the National Park System. Before the signing, Biden said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”

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For Emmett Till鈥檚 family, national monument proclamation cements inclusion in the American story

July 25, 2023 at 10:06 p.m.

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel...

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