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Black History Month Reads: ‘Driving While Black’ Photo: The News Wheel The events of 2020 have left a lot of things for us to think about, including systematic racism in the United States. To understand more about the Black experience, I recently dove into How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. However, I wanted to learn more about how it affects the world of transportation, something I’m very familiar with. It ended up being a good choice because it showed me how it’s not just the big things in this country that are influenced by preju...

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Black, female KCPD sergeant says 'new ways of policing' are needed Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department Sgt. Leila Lawson talks with 41 Action News Anchor Kevin Holmes about crime, representation and trust. And what role the three play as Kansas City battled a record number of homicides in 2020. and last updated 2021-01-05 23:59:27-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As the United States becomes more diverse, police departments across the country are having a hard time keeping up and looking like the communities they serve. That includes Kansas City, Missouri, where Leila Lawson is one of just fiv...

‘Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes Rebecca Wragg Sykes argues that we’ve spent too much time studying the way Neanderthals interacted with Homo Sapiens and too little studying the way Neanderthals interacted with each other. So she tells us how they lived, treating them not as one of evolution’s failures but as our close behavioral cousins. “The fate of the Neanderthals has monopolised enormous amounts of attention,” she writes, “yet it may be the least interesting thing about them.” ‘An Outsider’s Guide to...

Official capacity as president when he responded, and so taxpayers will pay for his defense. tonight, attorney general william barr defending the move, saying, quote, this is a normal application of the law. we turn now to an abc news investigation, conducted with our abc-owned stations. a closer look at the data, showing police in this country pulling over black drivers at a much higher rate than white drivers. abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas with our stations and what they found. >> reporter: tonight, 60-year-old julian lewis is dead because of an attempted traffic stop ove...