Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Former President Jimmy Carter speaks during a forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Nov. 20, 2014. Carter, at age 98 the longest-lived American president, had a recent series of short hospital stays. The Carter Center said in a statement Saturday, Feb. 19, 2023, that the 39th president…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This undated photo provided by Baisha Carter shows Arielle Anderson, a Michigan State University student who was killed during a shooting at the university in East Lansing, Mich., on Feb. 13, 2023. (Courtesy of Baisha Carter via AP) By John Flesher And Joey Cappelletti ASSOCIATED PRESS  EAST LANSING, Mich. — One student was…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Attorney Ben Crump, second from left, stands with the three Leon County, Fla., high school students who are threatening to file a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his administration and the ban of a proposed Advanced Placement course on African America Studies in Florida high schools, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Tallahassee,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Simone Crowley, the granddaughter of Tops Friendly Market shooting victim Ruth Whitfield looks up as she makes a statement to the court during the sentencing of Payton Gendron before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023 in Buffalo, N.Y. Gendron, a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Erek L. Barron, U.S. Attorney for Maryland, speaks during a news conference in Baltimore, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Barron announced the arrests and a federal criminal complaint charging Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, and Brandon Clint Russell, of Orlando, with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility. At left is FBI Special Agent in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Top row from left, officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, bottom row, from left, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith. The five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who died three days after…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey receives treatment inside an incubator at a children’s hospital in the town of Afrin, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Residents in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother gave birth…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Protesters march Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) By Aaron Morrison, Claudia Lauer, and Adrian Sainz ASSOCIATED PRESS  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An unarmed Black man dies after a videotaped beating by police. The officers involved are…

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ABOVE PHOTO: In this Friday, May 1, 2020 photo, workers at ACCESS, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, help with meals for the Arab community in Dearborn, Mich. As state officials and nonprofit groups target hard-to-count groups in the 2020 Census, like immigrants, many Arab Americans say the undercount is even more…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks at a news conference with the family of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, as RowVaughn Wells, mother of Tyre, right, and Tyre’s stepfather Rodney Wells, along with attorney Tony Romanucci, left, also stand with Crump, in Memphis, Tenn., Monday, Jan. 23,…

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