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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on voting rights at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Justice Department suing Georgia over state's new voting law

By Michael Balsamo And Christina A. Cassidy Jun. 25, 2021 02:22 PM EDT

Alisha Hoffman-Mirilovich, right, and Claudia Glennan embrace at the Edwardsville Pierogi Festival in Edwardsville, Pa., Friday, June 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
'We need more': Democrats frustrated as agenda faces hurdles

By Steve Peoples Jun. 15, 2021 12:21 AM EDT

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about jobs at The Queen theater, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Pressure mounts on Biden to make diverse picks for top posts

By Will Weissert, Lisa Mascaro And Steve Peoples Dec. 05, 2020 12:10 AM EST

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about jobs at The Queen theater, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Pressure mounts on Biden to make diverse picks for top posts

By Will Weissert, Lisa Mascaro And Steve Peoples Dec. 04, 2020 06:14 PM EST

Victor Gibson poses for a photo July 9, 2020, in Detroit. Despite fears that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen, Gibson said he's not planning to take advantage of Michigan's expanded vote-by-mail system when he casts his ballot in November. The retired teacher from Detroit just isn't sure he can trust it. Many Black voters across the U.S. share similar concerns and are planning to vote in person on Election Day, even as voting by mail expands to more states as a safety precaution during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)
Despite virus threat, Black voters wary of voting by mail

By Corey Williams Jul. 31, 2020 09:38 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable on economic reopening with community members, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
2020 Watch: Will Trump's return to campaign trail backfire?

By Steve Peoples Jun. 15, 2020 05:23 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 18, 2019, file photo, Conan O'Brien introduces Tom Cruise to present a clip from "Top Gun: Maverick" on day one of Comic-Con International in San Diego. Six of America's late-night television comedy hosts - five of them white men - turned serious after the nation's weekend of unrest following the death of George Floyd to suggest they and others need to do more than talk about racism. It has become a ritual - a somewhat inexplicable one, as TBS' O'Brien noted - for these comics to come on the air after acts of terrorism, school shootings or other national traumas to try and make sense of them for their audiences. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Late-night hosts say fighting racism means more than talk

By David Bauder Jun. 02, 2020 04:49 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 1, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump, left, listens as former prisoner Alice Marie Johnson, right, speaks at the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The 64-year-old African American great-grandmother spent 21 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense before Trump commuted her sentence in 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Trump team targets Democratic advantage with people of color

By Steve Peoples Apr. 18, 2020 08:58 AM EDT

Volunteers wave at passing cars, encouraging families to meet the Easter Bunny from their vehicles on Saturday, April 11, 2020 on the curb of New Life Church in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D. Churches around the city are finding social distancing-safe methods of celebrating Easter during the coronavirus pandemic. (Erin Bormett/The Argus Leader via AP)
The week that was: Stories from the coronavirus saga

By The Associated Press Apr. 11, 2020 04:49 PM EDT

AM-Prep: Cooler Copy

Apr. 09, 2020 03:05 AM EDT
CORONAVIRUS - AIRLINES UNDATED (AP) — The number of Americans getting on airplanes has sunk to a level not seen in more than 60 years as...

Dr. Alan Jones, chair of the University of Mississippi Medical Center's Department of Emergency Medicine, speaks of the need to establish a mobile field clinic in the basement of a parking lot at the facility, as staff prepare for more coronavirus cases, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi shows wide racial gap in impact of coronavirus

By Emily Wagster Pettus Apr. 08, 2020 06:40 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 7, 2020, file photo, an MTA worker wears personal protective equipment at the Grand Army Plaza station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As the coronavirus tightened its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population, black Americans. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Outcry over racial data grows as virus slams black Americans

By Kat Stafford, Meghan Hoyer And Aaron Morrison Apr. 08, 2020 03:54 PM EDT

FILE - In this 1950's file photo released by the National Archives, a black man included in a syphilis study has blood drawn by a doctor in Tuskegee, Ala. Historic failures in government response to disasters and emergencies, medical abuse, neglect and exploitation have jaded generations of black people into a distrust of public institutions. Some might call it the Tuskegee effect, referring to the U.S. government’s once-secret syphilis study of black men in Alabama that one study shows later reduced their life expectancy due to distrust of medical science. (National Archives via AP, File)
Amid coronavirus pandemic, black mistrust of medicine looms

By Aaron Morrison And Jay Reeves Apr. 05, 2020 08:00 AM EDT