Some of the country's highways were built through existing Black and brown communities. President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to address racial inequities.
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Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.
Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong is among those in Minneapolis and around the world who have been closely watching Derek Chauvin's trial on charges of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd's death.
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Some of the country's highways were built through existing Black and brown communities. President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to address racial inequities.
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The Texas Supreme Court has allowed an emergency order to expire. Housing groups warn that this could result in thousands of people losing their homes to eviction. Tenants' rights advocates, like those pictured here in Boston, have pushed for stronger protections for renters during the pandemic.
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The European Union's drug regulator on Wednesday announced its findings into the possible connection between AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clots.
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