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Appearing on CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper, Reeves doubled down on his anti-abortion position despite the state's poor showing in several indicators related to health, education, and economic well-being.  

At the time, Ole Hougen was on probation from another racially motivated attack that he committed in 2018 involving a different Black male victim. The DOJ noted that this was Hougen's fourth attack against a Black person in the last seven years.

A local Republican "community leader" based in Idaho was blasted recently for a racist since-deleted Tweet complaining about a commercial showing a Black family enjoying the holidays. The Daily Beast reported Lisa Leisy lost it on social media after seeing an old Hershey commercial depicting a Black family reveling in the holiday spirit. 

Despite claiming to disavow racism, Doles was identified as the leader of the America Patriots USA, a white nationalist group based in Dahlonega, Ga. The Southern Poverty Law Center has recognized the group as one of approximately two dozen hate groups operating within the state.  

On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton—21-year-old chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party—was assassinated by Chicago police officers working with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Pattern and practice investigations are civil matters and can result in specific measures being implemented as a part of an agreement with the department and the DOJ. Investigators are also supposed to consider community experiences and insights as a part of the process. 

Many active state guards were established at the start of World War II or well before. The Maryland Defense Force was reactivated in 1983. The New York Guard was started in 1917. Like South Carolina's, some state guards have their roots in militias that predate the United States. 

in 1899, Georgia native Francis Marion Boyer walked 2,000 miles to New Mexico to start a black town he called Blackdrom.

Nine out of the 12 jurors selected to preside over Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter's trial for the killing of Daunte Wright are white while only one identifies as Black and the other two are Asian. 

Ex-NFL Legend Deion Sanders brought in Instagram model Brittany Renner to teach his student-athletes at Jackson State University about the women they may meet on social media who will be out for their money and status.