Spearheaded by a group of pastors, a scholarship for descendants of a racial cleansing in Forsyth County in 1912 aims to right a multigenerational wrong.
The judge said Taylor’s death was triggered by the actions of her boyfriend, who opened fire when police arrived outside her Louisville apartment on March 13, 2020.
Emmitt Martin appeared before a federal judge on Friday afternoon. Another former Memphis officer, Desmond Mills Jr., changed his plea to guilty in November.
Closing arguments concluded a hearing brought under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act. Defendant Hasson Bacote, 38, was sentenced to death by a nearly all-white jury in 2009.
Kamala Harris is set to address the convention exactly six decades after the civil rights icon delivered her powerful convention speech about voting rights and representation.
The university’s white and Asian American student populations have increased, while all others have declined — some even down to zero, according to MIT.