A judge is denying requests to declare a mistrial in the case of three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery.
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Attorney for man charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery asks to keep`Black pastors’ out of court
An attorney for one of three white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia says he doesn’t want “any more Black pastors” in the courtroom
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Veterans Day legislation targets GI Bill’s racial inequities
Many Black WWII veterans received substantially less money toward purchasing a home or continuing their education.
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Defendant told police he trapped Ahmaud Arbery `like a rat’ before fatal shooting
Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael armed themselves and chased Arbery in a pickup truck after they spotted him running in their Georgia neighborhood on Feb. 23, 2020.
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Taking the stand, Rittenhouse says, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself’
The teenager is on trial on charges of killing two men and wounding a third during a night of protests last year in Kenosha, Wis.
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Defendant charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery changed his story, police say
The man who initiated the chase that ended in Ahmaud Arbery’s death rapidly changed his story to police on why he suspected Arbery was a criminal.
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Jury selection begins in trial for Charlottesville white nationalist rally’s planners
A civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia will determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called “Unite the Right” rally will be held responsible for the violence.
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Two teenage girls charged with violating Maine Civil Rights Act in racist spray-painting incident
The girls, both from Bangor, are suspected of painting racial slurs on the car of a Pakistani-American and person of color.
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Judge sentences Biddeford man to 3 years in prison for hate crime
Dusty Leo, 30, was one of two men involved in attacks on Black men in Portland and Biddeford in 2018.
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Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee comes down in former Confederate capital
The 21-foot-tall bronze sculpture, installed in 1890, had stood among four other massive Confederate statues in Richmond, Va., that were removed by the city last summer.