Tag: Social issues
100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, still toting the damage
TULSA, Okla. — On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Arkansas school apologizes for inaccuracies in yearbook
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — School leaders in northwest Arkansas are apologizing for inaccuracies printed in a junior high yearbook, including a current events section that...
Charleston shooter lawyer: Racist delusion showed incapacity
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation was wrongly...
Judge rejects bid to toss DNA in incapacitated woman’s rape
PHOENIX — A former nurse charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility has lost...
Dictator or ‘Dad’? Belarus leader suppresses all dissent
MOSCOW — When Alexander Lukashenko became its president in 1994, Belarus was an obscure country that had not even existed for three years. Over...
Biden calls Belarus plane diversion an ‘outrageous incident’
President Joe Biden on Monday said the forced diversion by Belarus of a commercial passenger jet so it could arrest an opposition journalist was...
Venezuela asks Spain to extradite leading opposition figure
MADRID — Venezuela has filed a request to get a prominent opposition activist extradited from Spain to complete the remaining 8 years of a...
Jolie says judge in Pitt divorce won’t let children testify
LOS ANGELES — Angelina Jolie criticized a judge deciding on custody arrangements for her and Brad Pitt's children during their divorce, saying in a...
Kansas woman alleging dorm rape convenes own grand jury
MISSION, Kan. — A Kansas woman who alleges consensual sex with a friend in his college dorm room turned into a terrifying assault took...
Roadblocks and protests disrupt Colombian city of Cali
CALI, Colombia — The sugar mills that employ tens of thousands of people have ground to a halt. Broken stoplights dangle uselessly over downtown...