Week In Review

FILE – Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Bernard LaFayette speaks to reporters after attending a SCLC meeting, March 6, 2010, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File) By Travis Loller ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in…

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FILE – Policemen stand on top of their car with pictures of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right and left, and his son Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the successor to him, center, during a rally to support him in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) By Jon Gambrell ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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People visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Middle Passage exhibit, including a wooden timber, the artifact at left, from the slave ship, the São José-Paquete de Africa, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) By Gary Fields, River Zhang, and Jacquelyn Martin ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian museum…

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People gather outside the Alabama Governor’s Mansion in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 16, 2026, to urge Gov. Kay Ivey to grant clemency to Sonny Burton, who is scheduled to be executed on March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler) By Kim Chandler ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death…

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TORONTO, CANADA -: Jesse Jackson in a black oxford shirt in Toronto, Canada at the Fairmount Royal Hotel on August 1, 2017. Photo: Shutterstock There was ‘a bridge called Jesse Jackson’ across decades of civil rights advocacy By Aaron Morrison and Sophia Tareen ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — From the moment the Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped…

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Angelique Roche holds a printout of her upcoming Book “First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth,” at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) By Terry Tang ASSOCIATED PRESS For academics, historians and activists, the past year has been tumultuous in advocating the teaching of…

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People attend a ceremony marking the 81th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in the Auschwitz Nazi death camp museum in Oswiecim, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel) By Vanessa Gera ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Poland — Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at somber events across…

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Jane Smith-Wolcott, center, widow of Challenger pilot Michael Smith and daughter Alison Smith Balch put flowers on a memorial during NASA’s Day of Remembrance for the 40th Anniversary of the Challenger tragedy at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/John Raoux) By Marcia Dunn ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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People protest as part of the “No Kings Day” protest on Presidents Day in Washington, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) By Meg Kinnard ASSOCIATED PRESS A third round of “No Kings” protests is coming this spring, with organizers saying they are planning their largest demonstrations yet across…

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La’Quetta Small, the superintendent of schools for Atlantic City, waits for her court appearance to start in Mays Landing, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, on charges that she and her husband, Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. beat and abused their teenage daughter. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS MAYS LANDING, N.J. — Prosecutors have…

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