CHALMETTE, La. — It was impeachment day in Mr. Dier’s world history class at Chalmette High School. Andrew Johnson, the first impeached president, was on the lesson plan. So was Richard M. Nixon, who avoided facing such a fate by resigning. Bill Clinton, who also was impeached but never convicted, was also part of the discussion.
ATLANTA — On the fifth floor of the Atlanta Police Department headquarters, more than a dozen investigative files of dead children are neatly spread across three tables. A handwritten list, scribbled in red ink, provides the names of some of the children who were killed. The years of each killing — 1979, 1980 and 1981 — are taped on three walls, along with grainy photos of the children, almost all of them smiling.
ATLANTA — On the fifth floor of the Atlanta Police Department headquarters, more than a dozen investigative files of dead children are neatly spread across three tables. A handwritten list, scribbled in red ink, provides the names of some of the children who were killed. The years of each killing — 1979, 1980 and 1981 — are taped on three walls, along with grainy photos of the children, almost all of them smiling.World6 Aug 2024
The Muslim college student was on the New York City subway when three men snatched her bag, reached for her hijab and called her a terrorist. A Houston sixth-grader was kidnapped and robbed by a band of young white supremacists, one with an “I hate black people” tattoo on his arm. And on one of the coldest nights of the year in Chicago, Jussie Smollett, a black and gay actor, was attacked by two men who shouted “MAGA Country” and slipped a noose around his neck.World6 Aug 2024
Hours after Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr., 26, a decorated African-American veteran, was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1946, he boarded a Greyhound bus headed home to Winnsboro, South Carolina. About an hour from where he lived with his wife, Woodard, still in uniform, was forcibly removed from the bus, brutally beaten and jailed by the white police chief in the town of Batesburg.World25 Jun 2024
EL PASO, Texas — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn, eaten a breakfast burrito and driven to two stores in El Paso to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his sport utility vehicle.
EL PASO, Texas — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his car and carried them to a makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso.
EL PASO, Texas — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn, eaten a breakfast burrito and driven to two stores in El Paso to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his sport utility vehicle.
The 396 young men began the day as students in caps and gowns, ready to graduate from Morehouse College — full of hope, but burdened in most cases with the debts that financed their education.
The murder of Emmett Till is remembered as one of the most hideous hate crimes of the 20th century, a brutal episode in American history that helped kindle the civil rights movement.
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