Tag: Race and ethnicity
Twitter faces backlash over handling of anti-Semitic posts
LONDON (AP) - Some Twitter users are staging a 48-hour boycott of the platform over its handling of a stream of anti-Semitic comments that...
Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning
BOSTON (AP) - The white Union Army commander sits rigid atop an imposing horse. His Black men, rifles to their shoulders, march resolutely alongside...
On Portland’s streets: Anger, fear, and a fence that divides
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The party at the Salmon Street Springs fountain, a riverfront landmark in the heart of Portland, was just getting started....
Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as...
Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.SELMA, Ala. (AP) - The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis...
From police chief to VP? Inside Val Demings’ unlikely path
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Val Demings has already been vice president.In 1972, the future Florida congresswoman was a young Black girl struggling to make...
From police chief to VP? Inside Val Demings’ unlikely path
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Val Demings has already been vice president.In 1972, the future Florida congresswoman was a young Black girl struggling to make...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...