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Nearly 30 people sued the city over the Austin Police Department's use of so-called less-lethal ammunition five years ago.
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Rioters burnt down a previously prosperous district of Black-owned businesses in the North Texas town.
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Leaders of a Baptist church in North Carolina ousted the pastor after congregants started leaving. A secret tape provides a rare look at the debate when a message threatens a business model.
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Austin has now paid out more than $22 million in settlements related to 2020 racial justice protestsSo far, the city has settled 19 lawsuits after police injured scores of demonstrators in 2020.
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An international group of researchers has voted to modify the scientific names of more than 200 plant species whose names carry a derogatory word.
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The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
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Joan Means Khabele was one of the first Black women to jump into the pool in protest of segregation.
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Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Confederacy.
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A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.
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Harvard Law School professor and noted defense attorney Charles Ogletree has died at age 70.