BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — A Black man died after being shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb during a traffic stop and crashing his car several blocks away, sparking violent protests that lasted into the early hours Monday as officers in riot gear clashed with demonstrators and the man’s mother...
LA Plans to Return Beachfront Property Stripped from Black Family in ’20s
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County plans to return prime beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who built a seaside resort for African Americans but suffered racist harassment and were stripped of it by local city leaders a century ago, a county official said Friday. Bruce's Beach “It...
Newsom Signs Law Mandating Study of Reparations for Black Americans
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law Wednesday requiring the state to develop a detailed plan for paying reparations to Black Americans. The move makes California the first to mandate a study of how it can make amends for its role in the oppression of Black people. Under the law,...
Interview: Kamala Harris on Race and Her Electability in 2020
NEW ORLEANS — Kamala Harris can't forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama before the state's 2008 caucus. "I remember her saying to me, 'They're not going to let him win,'" Harris recalled. "She did not want to go to...
Poll: Church Membership in US Plummets Over Past 20 Years
NEW YORK — The percentage of U.S. adults who belong to a church or other religious institution has plunged by 20 percentage points over the past two decades, hitting a low of 50% last year, according to a new Gallup poll. Among major demographic groups, the biggest drops were recorded...
Trump Wants Prison Reform. Can Sen. McConnell Deliver Votes?
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is supporting the first major rewrite of the nation's criminal justice sentencing laws in a generation, but it remains to be seen whether the proposal can pass Congress. Trump said earlier this month that the bill "will make our communities safer and give former inmates...