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The top cop's decision came even though the NYPD's patrol guide prohibits both excessive force and bars officers from parking on the sidewalk.

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

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The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

As a teenager, Jackson's Hezekiah Watkins became the youngest of the Freedom Riders, an interracial group of activists who challenged racial segregation on interstate buses and bus facilities in the South.

He castigated Robert F. Kennedy for failing to protect civil rights activists, forcing the attorney general to reckon with the depth of Black anger.

Rural Mississippi has the third highest rate of using texting services for mental health support in the nation, according to a new report by the crisis intervention nonprofit, Crisis Text Line. The report is based on nearly 2 million text conversations across the nation from 2019 to 2024, at Crisis Text Line’s 741741 number. In Mississippi, 53% of people contacting the line resided in a rural county. Only Wyoming and Vermont had more rural texters. Crisis Text Line hopes this report will add to the conversation around what people from rural communities need to support their mental well-being, said Tracy Costigan, vice president of impact evaluation and storytelling.