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Twin MDs fight entrenched racism in medical world

Identical twin doctors who have fought bigotry all their lives have a new mission: dismantling racism in medicine.

Colleges pushed anew for reparations for slavery, racism

For Brown University students, the Ivy League college's next step in its yearslong quest to atone for its legacy of slavery ...

Justices consider hearing a case on 'most offensive word'

Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, ...

Reparations urged at colleges for slavery, racism

Students and community activists from New England to the Deep South are demanding their colleges take more ambitious steps ...

Judge asked to OK evidence of Ahmaud Arbery's past troubles

Attorneys for a white father and son charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery asked a judge Wednesday to allow evidence ...

Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’

When Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins was considering adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the ...

Indiana hospital: 'Lack of empathy' in Black doctor's care

An outside investigation into the death of a Black doctor while she battled COVID-19 has found that the treatment she ...

Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history: report

Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent ...

Kerry: US weighs sanctions on China solar over forced labor

The Biden administration is considering sanctions over China’s alleged use of forced labor in production of solar panels and ...

UK government plan to toughen voter ID rules draws criticism

The British government has announced contentious plans to toughen election voting rules by requiring photo identification at ...

Lawyers: Black man didn't drive into deputies who shot him

Lawyers for relatives of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man fatally shot by deputies, said Tuesday that body camera videos show ...

Republican-backed Arizona voting bill explained

Arizona is the latest Republican-controlled state in the crosshairs of voting rights advocates after Gov. Doug Ducey signed ...

Arizona makes it easier to purge some from early voting list

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday signed legislation purging infrequent voters from a list of those who automatically get ...

US doctors group issues anti-racism plan for itself, field

The nation’s largest doctors group Tuesday released a comprehensive plan aimed at dismantling structural racism inside its ...

Men plead not guilty to hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery death

Three Georgia men pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old ...

Paris court tries anti-racism activist for statue attack

A French activist for Black rights went on trial in Paris on Monday for defacing a statue of a historical figure from ...

Micronesians feel hatred in Hawaii, decry police shooting

Comments on social media about a 16-year-old boy shot and killed by Honolulu police have been so hateful that a Catholic ...

Massachusetts mom wants outside review of Black teen's death

Family members and activists are demanding answers in the death of a Black teen whose body was found near her home in a ...

Election officials face fines, charges in GOP voting laws

In 2020, election officials tried to make voting easier and safer amid a global pandemic. Next time, they might get fined or ...

Man charged in stabbings of 2 Asian women a no-show in court

The arraignment of a man who allegedly stabbed two older women without warning at a San Francisco bus stop was postponed ...