Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Rev. Rodney Reinhart blesses Emmitt Till’s mother Mamie Till Mobley’s grave after more than 100 ministers toured Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. On July 9, 2009 Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said four workers at Burr Oak cemetery allegedly dug up more than 200 graves, dumped the bodies…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Keechant Sewell, the first black female NYPD commissioner, listens to Mayor-elect Eric Adams speak at the Queensbridge houses on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman) By Michelle L. Price ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named Keechant Sewell, a Long Island police official, as…

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ABOVE PHOTO: In this aerial photo, destruction from a recent tornado is seen in downtown Mayfield, Ky., Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) By Bruce Schreiner and Dylan Lovan ASSOCIATED PRESS MAYFIELD, Ky. — Workers on the night shift at Mayfield Consumer Products were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Katie Wright, the mother of Daunte Wright, left, and his father, Arbuey Wright, right, arrive Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis. Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter, who is white, is charged with manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, following a traffic…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole waves to supporters during a Dole Kemp `96 rally Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1996, at the Community Concourse in downtown San Diego. (AP Photo/ Michael S. Green) By Connie Cass and Calvin Woodward ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — Bob Dole willed himself to walk again after paralyzing war wounds, ran…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Florida candidate for U.S. Senate Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., right, and his mother, former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek, chat as they attend services at Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) By Freida Frisaro ASSOCIATED PRESS  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave…

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ABOVE PHOTO: James Kolenich, attorney for Jason Kessler, speaks with the media after the jury gave a partial verdict in Sines v Kessler case Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021 at the Federal Courthouse in Charlottesville, Va. A jury ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $25 million in damages over the violence…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Betty Shabazz’s six daughters, including the mother of 12-year-old Malcolm Shabazz, pose for a photograph at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, Friday, June 6, 1997. The women, speaking at a news conference, thanked the world for its prayers offered for their mother who was burned Sunday in a fire allegedly started by…

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ABOVE PHOTO: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams speaks during a ceremony on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon) By Larry Neumeister ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — With Attorney General Merrick Garland looking on, Manhattan’s new U.S. attorney said Friday he’s establishing a civil rights…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy V. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, is being considered for a…

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