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This story is part of a series originally produced by The Granite State News Collaborative and The Concord Monitor. You can read the first installment here.New Hampshire State Trooper Haden Wilber was stationed on Interstate 95 in Hampton one afternoon in February 2019 when he began following a car he found suspicious, a Toyota Camry with tinted windows and Connecticut plates.“The vehicle had drawn my attention to it due to how clean it was, given the age of the vehicle and current weather conditions in New England,” Wilber wrote in a police report.The driver was a Black man in his 20s. Wilber pulled…

(Photo courtesy of Sherrita Magalde) Sherrita Magalde, owner of Sheer Ambrosia BakeryOnce again, the country is reeling after another abhorrent death. Breonna Taylor. Darrien Hunt. Amaud Arbery, George Floyd. Countless others. Now, Jacob Blake.In response to these horrific and unjust deaths, we saw the Black Lives Matter movement gain traction and support this summer. As people all across the country continue to protest in the streets, tens of thousands of Utahns are expressing their own style of protesting – not only in the streets – but also with support for Black-owned businesses. By putting their money where it really counts,…

The smell of weed wafted beneath the cracks of my bedroom door. And I could hear the clink of their glasses. Some nights, they’d drink Crown Royal and Coca-Cola. But what I remember most is they never touched the bottle of Dom Perignon. Or maybe it was Perrier.It was a fancy bottle with a foil top and when I close my eyes I can still see there was a P on it. The bottle was bought to celebrate my birth, to be opened when I was old enough to taste it. But over the years we lost many homes and…

On a Saturday afternoon in January, Great Plains Hall in Arapahoe was packed with hundreds of people standing in line to bless themselves with cedar smoke, and visit with the very imposing 6-foot-long headdress. Hand-sewn and beaded, each of the dozens of eagle feathers adorning it commemorates one of Chief Black Coal’s greatest accomplishments.”It just makes you feel like he’s in the room and he’s watching us,” said Crystal C’Bearing, deputy director of the Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office. “He’s saying, ‘What kind of Arapaho person are you?’ So, it just makes you stand up straight when you see…

Joe Biden almost dropped out of the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee this year after several disappointing results in early voting states – until Black voters in South Carolina delivered him a resounding win.And while the race between the former vice president and Donald Trump remained too close to call on Thursday evening, it appears Black Americans once again stepped up to give the Democrat the backbone of his support, especially in key battleground states including Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.Record turnout among African American voters could be the difference between a Biden win and a Biden loss.“What…

‘Something needs to change – we owe it to the families’published at 20:34 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January20:34 GMT 31 JanuaryNada TawfikReporting from Washington DC I have just spoken to Todd Inman from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is currently investigating the aircraft collision.I asked Inman about Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social, external that the helicopter was “flying too high”. Inman says the NTSB will “analyse every fact”.He says the information “typically being discussed comes from, say ‘off-the-shelf’ software, what people may have seen on the internet,” adding that they are “not the facts that the NTSB…

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ANNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Wes Moore today delivered the keynote address at the Maryland Minority Business Counts “Engage and Elevate” event at Coppin State University. The governor was joined by Comptroller Brooke Lierman; Maryland Department of Commerce Secretary Kevin Anderson; and Maryland Department of General Services Secretary Atif Chaudhry. Also in attendance was Governor’s Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs Special Secretary Yolanda Maria Martinez; Greater Baltimore Urban League Chief Executive Officer Tiffany Majors; and Coppin State University President Dr. Anthony Jenkins, Ph.D.. Governor Moore spoke before hundreds of event attendees who gathered to promote state and municipal contracting…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – In a community conversation on Sunday, the Alaska Black Caucus asked the Anchorage Police Department’s chief designee about transparency and accountability in law enforcement.Capt. Bianca Cross, who recently became the first-ever woman appointed to APD’s top post, stated the police department strives to have competent, professional and unbiased officers.When asked about racial profiling, Cross said she recognizes its presence in law enforcement. She admitted there have been “stories that have kind of made my jaw drop” surrounding racism within the department.“I’m not going to say that there’s not racism within the department. I’m not going to…

Which makes the crowd at Frank Jones Corner a point of pride for its employees. Later that evening, Justin Sebren leans across the bar and shouts so that he can be heard over the blast of Michael Jackson: “I’ve bar tended at a shit-ton of bars in this town,” he says, “and this is the most diverse bar around.”A quick census: In the corner is Michelle, a black woman, not quite middle-aged, who has brought her visiting girlfriends — because, she says, F. Jones has good drinks, good food and good music, all of it cheap. She’ll be leaving soon,…