Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers calls for calm Tuesday, while declaring a state of emergency in Kenosha, where crowds destroyed dozens of buildings and set more than 30 fires on Monday night.
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National Guard called out after police shoot Black man in Wisconsin
Kenosha becomes the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest.
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Portland police stand by as Proud Boys, far-right militias flash guns, brawl with ‘antifa’ counterprotesters
As the brawls unfolded, Portland police officers remained at a distance.
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Democrats see racism in Republicans’ mispronunciations of ‘Kamala’
Republicans keep getting Kamala Harris’ name wrong, and Democrats say it’s not a slip-up.
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Ketamine that’s injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
A lack of police training, conflicting medical standards and nonexistent protocols have resulted in hospitalizations and even deaths.
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Police shoot, kill Black man outside store in Louisiana
Both the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center on Saturday called for an investigation.
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Edward Little High School grad to donate laptops to immigrants
The Chromebooks will be distributed at 4 p.m. Friday.
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Over 300 Portland-area businesses make racial, social solidarity pledge
The Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Standing in Solidarity initiative is challenging businesses to focus on implicit biases and other issues of racial injustice.
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Maine Supreme Court questions Melville Fuller statue outside Kennebec courthouse
The monument honors the Augusta-born former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was part of the majority in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation with the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine.
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Watch: John Lewis mourned as ‘founding father’ of a better America
The late civil rights icon is eulogized by three former presidents and others at his funeral in Atlanta.