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  • Minneapolis police Lieutenant Richard Zimmerman answers questions on the fifth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 2, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERSNewsletters

    The Derek Chauvin trial continues to day five

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  • A man holds a sign that reads “Racism is a Virus” during the “We Are Not Silent” rally against anti-Asian hate in response to recent anti-Asian crime in the Chinatown-International District of Seattle, Washington on March 13, 2021. – Reports of attacks, primarily against Asian-American elders, have spiked in recent months — fuelled, activists believe, by talk of the “Chinese virus” by former president Donald Trump and others. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Happy Day of Trans Visibility

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-) long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt’s Suez Canal. – A giant container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal after a gust of wind blew it off course, the vessel’s operator said on March 24, 2021, bringing marine traffic to a halt along one of the world’s busiest trade routes. (Photo by Suez Canal Authority/HO/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    One scoop at a time

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • A man holds a sign that reads “Racism is a Virus” during the “We Are Not Silent” rally against anti-Asian hate in response to recent anti-Asian crime in the Chinatown-International District of Seattle, Washington on March 13, 2021. – Reports of attacks, primarily against Asian-American elders, have spiked in recent months — fuelled, activists believe, by talk of the “Chinese virus” by former president Donald Trump and others. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    1955 Capital’s Andrew Chung on the Atlanta shootings, anti-Asian racism, and a very hard phone call to his father

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • Julie Tran holds her phone during a candlelight vigil in Garden Grove, California, on March 17, 2021 to unite against the recent spate of violence targeting Asians and to express grief and outrage after yesterday’s shooting that left eight people dead in Atlanta, Georgia, including at least six Asian women. – Police have said suspect Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, has so far denied a racist motive for the three shootings in the southern US state of Georgia. (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Centering the stories of the Atlanta spa shooting victims

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • People pray and hold lights during a vigil organized by Nailing It For America for those who have died from Covid-19 and to “Stop Asian Hate” on March 4, 2021 in Fountain Valley, California. –Newsletters

    It’s time to support AAPI women

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • Martin Lawrence and Will Smith yelling at each other while holding machine guns in ‘Bad Boys’, 1995. The film spawned two sequels. Altogether, the franchise has earned $840 million.Newsletters

    A primarily white entertainment industry leaves $10 billion on the table every year

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 07: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates talks with young people after a question-and-answer session with leaders from historically black colleges and universities during a Thurgood Marshall College Fund event at the JW Marriott February 07, 2019 in Washington, DC. Harris officially announced her candidacy for president of the United States on January 21. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Newsletters

    Historically Black leadership

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • Portrait of American Civil Rights activist Vernon Jordan work on voter registration at the Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15, 1967. (Photo by Warren K Leffler/PhotoQuest/Getty Images)Newsletters

    Remembering Vernon Jordan

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 30: Thasunda Brown Duckett attends Ebony Magazine’s Ebony’s Power 100 Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 30, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/WireImage)Newsletters

    The Fortune 500 has a new Black CEO

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • President of the Ford Foundation and recipient of Sundance Institute’s Vanguard Award for Philanthropy Darren Walker speaks during 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2020 in Park City, Utah.Newsletters

    It’s time to put employees first

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  • CANCUN, MEXICO – FEBRUARY 18: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) checks in for a flight at Cancun International Airport after a backlash over his Mexican family vacation as his home state of Texas endured a Winter storm on February 18, 2021 in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The Republican politician came under fire after leaving for the warm holiday destination as hundreds of thousands of people in the lone star state suffered a loss of power. Reports stated that Cruz was due to catch a flight back to Houston, Texas. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)Newsletters

    The crisis in Texas continues

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • FULLERTON, CA – FEBRUARY 11: Peter Small, portraying George Washington before residents at Morningside of Fullerton, holds set of teeth and a portrait of Washington to demonstrate that Washington’s teeth were removed for the portrait. Small portrays 9 historical figures including Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman, FDR, Thomas Edison, John Adams, Moses and Golda Meir. ///ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Zarnow.0218 √ê 2/11/13 √ê LEONARD ORTIZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER √ê Peter Small, a former history teacher in Los Angeles and Washington, portrays 9 historical figures 9 including Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman, FDR, Thomas Edison, John Adams, Moses and Golda Meir. Small will be presenting as George Washington to the residents at Morningside of Fullerton. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)Newsletters

    What George Washington’s teeth can teach us about bias

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • Black woman at the officeNewsletters

    Happy Lunar New Year

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris
  • PARK CITY, UT – JANUARY 26: Actor Daniel Dae Kim attends the “Blast Beat” dinner at Latinx House on January 26, 2020 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images for The Latinx House)Newsletters

    Hate crimes against Asian Americans are nothing new

    By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris