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Of the half a million people reported missing in 2021, more than 350,000 were children and from those cases more than 70,000 were Black girls.

The widows of two men killed at a work site on Gabriola Island, B.C., have filed lawsuits against several construction companies, claiming the boom of a concrete pump-truck underwent shoddy repairs before it snapped and fell on the men last year.

Freeman was the first African American woman to successfully file a lawsuit for her freedom.

Across the country, local school districts and libraries are banning children’s books that critics claim contain subjects too controversial and offensive to teach in the classroom, including LGBTQ+ relationships, the Holocaust and critical race theory.

Last month, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act failed to pass the Senate, when two Democratic Senators, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia refused to support rule changes to overcome a Republican filibuster. Congress' failure to pass the bill leaves voting rights legislation in political turmoil as states, including New Hampshire, Texas, and Georgia are proposing new laws that critics say will make it harder for people, especially people of color, to exercise their right to vote.