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By Nicole Chavez, CNN As the world’s top athletes head into the Tokyo Olympics, a wave of penalizations and criticism are shedding light onto how Black women in sports are treated. In recent weeks, the governing body for aquatic sports refused to approve the use of a swimming cap designed to accommodate natural Black hair

By Ashley Vaughan, CNN On Thursday, June 24, around 1:30 a.m., an estimated 55 condominiums fell to the ground, most of them with residents asleep inside in the town of Surfside, just north of Miami, Florida. As families wait in agony for updates on missing loved ones, there are ways you can ensure they don’t

By Laura Jarrett, CNN An Ohio police chief has retired from his post after an apparent racist incident was caught on surveillance, CNN affiliates report. Sheffield Lake Police Chief Anthony Campo has now left the force after more than 30 years on the job following what appears to be a racist prank on a fellow

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones declined the University of North Carolina’s offer of tenure and a teaching position with the school and has instead accepted a faculty role at Howard University. She made the announcement on “CBS This Morning” with Gayle King on Tuesday. Hannah-Jones will be joined by Ta-Nehisi Coates,

By Jason Hanna and Gregory Lemos, CNN Investigators believe golf pro Gene Siller — one of three men found fatally shot on an Atlanta-area golf course Saturday — was killed “because he witnessed an active crime taking place,” police said Tuesday. Police didn’t specify what that crime was, but have said that the two other

By Evan Simko-Bednarski, Taylor Romine, Jean Casarez and Hollie Silverman, CNN Newly released video obtained by CNN shows correctional officers allegedly abusing inmates at a soon-to-be shuttered women’s correctional facility in New Jersey. The edited footage shows correctional officers extracting inmates from their cells, physically restraining inmates, punching inmates, and deploying pepper spray into cells

By AJ Willingham, CNN Florida is battening down the hatches today as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches, bringing with it possibly deadly storm surge. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.