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A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from the nation’s largest movie theater chain. The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of “The Color Purple.” The Rev. William Barber II said he needs the chair because he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis,

The Seattle parks and recreation division demolished a Black Lives Matter (BLM) memorial under police supervision Wednesday morning. The city justified the destruction of the Black Lives Matter Memorial Garden, which was planted spontaneously in the city’s Cal Anderson Park during the 2020 protests, by noting that it had become a haven for drug use and other kinds of criminal activity,

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked key parts of an Iowa law that bans some books from school libraries and forbids teachers from raising LGBTQ+ issues. Judge Stephen Locher’s preliminary injunction halts enforcement of the law, which was set to take effect Jan. 1 but already had resulted in the removal of hundreds of books from Iowa schools. The law, which the Republican-led

Police have issued arrest warrants for three white pontoon boaters who allegedly attacked the Black captain of a riverboat cruise over a docking dispute along the Alabama River in Montgomery on Saturday. Richard Roberts, 48, was charged with two counts of third-degree assault, while 23-year-old Allen Todd and 25-year-old Zachary Shipman were each charged with one count of third-degree assault