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The Biden administration’s move to ban menthol cigarettes has the Black community split, with the ban’s supporters arguing it promotes a healthier lifestyle and its critics arguing it unfairly targets Black Americans and could lead to injustices and policing issues. 

Seventy-three Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021, leaving 723 such monuments standing in the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Whose Heritage?” data project counted more than 2,000 Confederate memorials throughout the country today, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure […]

There remain more than 2,000 Confederate monuments in the U.S., according to the “Whose Heritage?” data project by the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many Confederate monuments still stand in Arkansas?

If you believe film directors who have reached international recognition can make any movie they want, think again. Auteurs like Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock have all had passion projects shelved due to overly ambitious plans, studios afraid to take risks, and laughably enormous budgets. Despite not being made, however, some of these […]

Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial of a former Lonoke County deputy who was charged with manslaughter after shooting and killing a teen during a traffic stop.

A Kentucky jury has cleared a former police officer who fired shots during the 2020 drug raid that ended in Breonna Taylor’s death.

The jury’s verdict after two days of deliberations in the case against Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jury deliberations are set to begin Wednesday in the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers. The officers were there when Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd, but did not intervene, even as Floyd was dying. The defense argues the officers received poor training and […]

A defense attorney at the federal trial of three Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights said during closing arguments Tuesday that Floyd’s death was a tragedy, but that doesn’t make it a crime.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas grand jury indicted 19 Austin police officers on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for their actions during 2020 protests over racial injustice that spread nationwide following the killing of George Floyd, according to people familiar with the matter. Multiple people spoke to The Associated Press Thursday on […]

The response of two police officers breaking up a fight between teens at a New Jersey mall is raising concerns of racial bias.