Tag: Race and ethnicity
Formula 1 season starts 4 months later in a different world
SPIELBERG, Austria (AP) - Four months after the opening race was called off at the last minute, the Formula One season finally gets underway...
LAPD funding slashed by $150M, reducing number of officers
LOS ANGELES (AP) - City leaders voted Wednesday to slash the Los Angeles Police Department budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers...
Movement for Black Lives plans virtual national convention
NEW YORK (AP) - Spurred by broad public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, thousands of Black activists from across the U.S. will...
Citing racial bias, San Francisco will end mug shots release
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco police will stop releasing the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat...
AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter groups plan convention
NEW YORK (AP) - Spurred by broad public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, thousands of Black activists from across the U.S. will...
In Denmark, police say slaying was not racially motivated
COPENHAGEN (AP) - The slaying of a biracial man on a Danish Baltic Sea island and the detention of two local men in their...
Rudolfo Anaya, ‘godfather’ of Chicano literature, dies at 82
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) - Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,†a...
5 officers investigated over use of force at Austin protests
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Five Austin police officers are on paid administrative duty amid an investigation into the use of what authorities call “less...
John Hickenlooper wins Colorado’s Democratic Senate primary
DENVER (AP) - Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to face Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in November, overcoming a series...
Protester hit by Iowa governor’s SUV sure it was intentional
ACKLEY, Iowa (AP) - An SUV carrying Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds hit a Black Lives Matter protester who was trying to block the vehicle...
