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Sgt. Patrick Swanton of the Waco Police Department speaks to the media as Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper D.L. Wilson (left) stands near a Twin Peaks restaurant where nine members of a motorcycle gang were shot and killed in Waco, Texas, on Tuesday.

On 'Menace II Society' And 'Easy Rider': Why All The Talk On Bikers And Thugs Matters

Many have contrasted media treatment of bikers in the Waco shootout with its treatment of black protesters. Charles Blow says this speaks to an underlying fear "of the otherness of blackness."

WCLK Golf Event August 31 @ Chateau Elan--Support WCLK And Mingle With Athletes And Musicians

Join us for the WCLK Golf Event Monday, August 31 at the Chateau Elan Winery and Resort Golf Club northeast of Atlanta. Golfers can play the beautiful…

Activists Mourn Race Theorist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

Welsing is being mourned by many – including musician Chuck D, who credited her with providing the inspiration for the 1990 Public Enemy album Fear of a Black Planet.

Kurt Elling On Piano Jazz

Elling's commanding, richly grained baritone voice is the perfect vehicle for jazz songs, whether reworked classics or original compositions. Fusing jazz and poetry, Elling performs a series of Ornette Coleman poems with freeform accompaniment by host Marian McPartland.

Sakine Arat, right, and Mayrem Bulut are Kurdish mothers camping out between Turkish amry forces and the Kurdish PKK militants, in hopes of preventing clashes. "Mothers on both sides should be doing this," says Arat, 80.

Kurdish Activists Camp Out Between Turkey's Army And Kurdish Fighters

As an old conflict heats up again in southeastern Turkey, the activists have staked out ground on a sunburned hillside and say they're willing to risk their own lives in order to stop the fighting.

Work crews remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson on Wednesday in Richmond, Va. The city's mayor, Levar Stoney, has ordered the immediate removal of multiple Confederate statues in the city, saying he was using his emergency powers to speed up their removal for public safety.

Richmond, Va., Mayor Orders Emergency Removal Of Confederate Statues

A crane and a cherry picker soon arrived on the city's Monument Avenue to remove the statue of Stonewall Jackson before cheering crowds.

Free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick will appear in the latest update of the Madden NFL 21 franchise. Kaepernick is seen above ahead of a workout for NFL football scouts and media in Riverdale, Ga., in 2019.

The Return Of Colin Kaepernick — To The Madden Franchise

EA Sports says Kaepernick will return as a free agent in the latest update of Madden 21. His overall rating of 81 is higher than several notable NFL starters, including Baker Mayfield and Cam Newton.

Minnesota Lawmakers Ban Police Chokeholds, 'Warrior-Style Training'

The bill's most high-profile sections put new limits on police use of force in a bid to increase accountability nearly two months after George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis.

#UPFRONT featuring Erika Alexander, Gil Robertson and Patrick LaDonis (AUDIO)

This weekend's edition of UPFRONT Inside Atlanta's Entertainment Industry is a salute to Black television. It features AAFCA co-founder and current…

ICE has detained more than 100 people in the Los Angeles area in ongoing raids. Cities have pledged to not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

ICE Detains More Than 100 In Los Angeles-Area Immigration Raids

The federal immigration enforcement agency said "uncooperative jurisdictions," like Los Angeles, were "putting officers, the general public and the aliens at risk."

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