Some black leaders are condemning President Trump’s chosen date and place to resume his giant campaign rallies.
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Protests intensify campaigns to remove Confederate monuments around U.S.
Scholars are divided over whether the campaign amounts to erasing history or updating it.
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Senate Republicans ready policing bill after Floyd death, protests
The party that has long favored a ‘law and order’ approach finds itself trying to adapt to a fast-changing national dialogue on police and race.
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Maine Democrats pass resolution calling for police reform
The Maine Democratic Party says it’s incorporating opposition to police brutality into its platform this year
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Country trio Lady Antebellum changes its name: ‘We are regretful and embarrassed’
Grammy-winning country group Lady Antebellum is changing its name to Lady A, saying they regret not taking into consideration the word’s associations with slavery.
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Republican-led Senate panel OKs removing Confederate names from bases
The plan by Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes on the president, who has vowed not to change the names.
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Army Gen. Mark Milley says he was wrong to accompany Trump on church walk
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the nation’s top military officer, now says it was a mistake for him to have been in Lafayette Square with President Donald Trump last week.
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More advertisers leave Tucker Carlson’s show after his Black Lives comment
Walt Disney Co., Papa John’s International Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. said this week they would no longer advertise on his show.
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The Latest: Protests intensify campaigns to remove Confederate monuments around U.S.
The latest on protests against racism and police brutality. The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and, in […]
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Commentary: No one is above the law – end ‘qualified immunity’ for police
In Augusta and Washington, lawmakers should take steps to address violations of the Constitution by the officers sworn to uphold it.