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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland discussed on May 11 the findings of an investigation into the conditions that Native American children endured in boarding schools between 1819 and 1969.

Interior Department says Native American children were forced into assimilation at 408 federal boarding schools

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Native American children were renamed, told not to use Indigenous languages and had their hair cut at 408 boarding schools in the United States that forced assimilation in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Department of Interior says. The department released on Wednesday a long-awaited review of past efforts by the

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Delaware State University expresses outrage over lacrosse team traffic stop in Georgia. Sheriff says it was not racial profiling

By Joe Sutton, Claudia Dominguez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, said its women’s lacrosse team was racially profiled by sheriff’s deputies last month during a traffic stop in Georgia. The team’s bus was headed north on Interstate 95 in Liberty County on April 20 following a game in Florida

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At a gala hockey match in Sochi

‘It’s shameful’: Russian-linked billionaires have given enormous sums of money to the West’s leading educational and cultural institutions

By Majlie de Puy Kamp and Isabelle Chapman, CNN Their names are etched in stone alongside some of the most powerful people and companies in American history — the Rockefellers, the Walgreens, and the Coca-Cola company. They’ve sponsored fellowships at Ivy League schools, have educational centers named after them, and sit on the boards of

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Delaware State University expresses outrage over lacrosse team traffic stop in Georgia. Sheriff says it was not racial profiling

By Joe Sutton, Claudia Dominguez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, said its women’s lacrosse team was racially profiled by sheriff’s deputies last month during a traffic stop in Georgia. The team’s bus was headed north on Interstate 95 in Liberty County on April 20 following a game in Florida

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2 former Oklahoma police officers have been charged with manslaughter in the fatal 2021 shooting of a Black man

By Raja Razek, Rebekah Riess and Amy Simonson, CNN Two former Oklahoma police officers have been charged with first-degree manslaughter in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of a Black man in Comanche County, according to a statement from District Attorney Kyle Cabelka. Quadry Sanders was killed at a home on December 5, 2021, when

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Jailer Vicky White and inmate Casey White had a head start when they fled Alabama

Jailer Vicky White and inmate Casey White had a head start when they fled Alabama, law enforcement experts say. Unforced errors brought it to an end

By Dakin Andone and Michelle Krupa, CNN A horde of cash. A getaway car. An enormous world in which to hide. It seemed inmate Casey White and his jailer Vicky White had plenty of advantages when they walked out of an Alabama jail on April 29, the corrections officer allegedly helping facilitate her charge’s escape.

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