(Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
(Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

Behind a father-and-son protest, a history of laughter and struggle

On a Northern Virginia street corner, a White professor and his Black son offer a lesson about America.
There shouldn’t be a rush to judgment, but the investigation of the shooting should proceed expeditiously.
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Anyone who insists that they are is misinformed at best and a willful liar at worst.
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Gender parity for the response to police brutality, please.
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The family of Daniel T. Prude released body-camera footage of the incident for the first time Wednesday and demanded that the officers be held accountable.
Jessica A. Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, said she’s claimed a Black identity throughout her career.
The league and NFLPA jointly announced social justice measures two days after Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “The NFL stands with the Black community.”
After Trump moved to slash federal funding from several “anarchist jurisdictions" late Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo shot back at the president, a fellow native of Queens.
That's true even when Blacks and Latinos are in the majority.
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In the days after Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year old Black man, was shot and killed after being chased by three White men, his former coach led a crusade for justice. He hasn’t stopped.
Protesters in cities across the United States have increasingly targeted public officials in their homes, including mayors in Chicago, Seattle, Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
Health experts share tips for relocation travel during these uncertain times.
After a full video of the incident was leaked, local civil rights activists have renewed their calls for the embattled police chief, Edwin Bergeron, to resign.
The complaint alleges the fast-food giant intentionally placed Black franchise owners in economically depressed markets and set them up for failure.
Trump offered his first public comments about, Kyle Rittenhouse, a supporter who was charged with murder in Kenosha, Wis., and other Trump supporters who converged on Portland.
The tournament's 2018 champion started with a mask bearing the name of Breonna Taylor and said, “It’s quite sad that seven masks isn’t enough."
Daniel McMahon, 32, was sentenced to more than three years in prison for terrorizing and harassing people online who disagreed with his white supremacist ideology.
In one striking exchange with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump claimed, without evidence, that unnamed, shadowy figures were “controlling the streets” and manipulating his Democratic opponent Joe Biden in a coordinated effort to sow chaos and destruction.
As his shoes bear witness to victims of police brutality, the Nuggets star has a second 50-point performance in three games in Game 6 against the Utah Jazz.
“We know that bad actors will take our hospitality and use it against us," one local official wrote, following the police shooting of Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old Black man.
While large majorities of Americans oppose reducing police budgets, they do support supplementing police efforts with additional social services.
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