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Rachael Rollins is undoubtedly an exciting prosecutor. When she announced during her 2018 campaign to become Boston’s next district attorney…
The brutal killing of Ahmaud Arbery, by a retired member of law enforcement and his son in Brunswick, Georgia on…
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Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden released his “Plan for Black America” on May 4, which discussed some of the…
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New York City drug arrests hit historic lows in the weeks after Governor Andrew Cuomo initiated the state's "shelter-in-place" policy…
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Fort Wayne, a gateway to the American West that started out as a significant trade port along the Erie Canal,…