The Government Accountability Office found that Black girls received nearly half of the most severe punishments, like expulsion, even though they represent only 15% of girls in public schools.
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If Harris wins, she would make history. But she isn’t talking about that
Hillary Clinton leaned into her identity when she ran for president. Vice President Kamala Harris is decidedly not.
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10 years later, Michael Brown’s mom asks a global panel to look into her son’s death
Brown’s mother Lezley McSpadden filed a claim against the U.S. with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2023, alleging that the government deprived her son’s right to life. A hearing on the matter was held last month
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Scholars on the ‘divide and conquer’ strategy behind Trump’s false claim that Harris ‘turned Black’
Scholars say Trump’s false claim that Harris “turned Black” isn’t a new racial conspiracy theory.
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Overdose deaths in R.I. fell for the first time in five years
Fatal drug overdoses in Rhode Island declined for the first time in five years, with similar dips in other New England states, according to data released Wednesday by the state Department of Health. Rhode Island overdose deaths last year fell about 7 percent. In Massachusetts, overdose deaths last year dropped 10 percent; Connecticut reported an […]
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O.J. Simpson’s trial divided the nation. What legacy does he leave behind?
O.J. Simpson was more than a football star. More than a pop culture icon or a defendant acquitted of murder.
He became a symbol of America’s complicated relationship to race, celebrity, and justice. His family announced that he died of cancer Wednesday at age 76.
The murder trial of O.J. Simpson became not only about one man and two victims, but the entire country. Coming up, we assess the legacy of a case, and a verdict, that put race in America on the stand.
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