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An Ohio grand jury indicted former Franklin County Sheriff's Office deputy Jason Meade, who shot Casey Goodman Jr. six times, including five times in the back, in Columbus on Dec. 4, 2020.

Last year, the event, which is held in the Inner Harbor, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Thirty-three-year-old astronaut Jessica Watkins will spend six months up in the cosmos working as a mission specialist on NASA's SpaceX Crew-4. She will be the first Black woman to step foot in the International Space Station.

Symone Sanders, the chief spokesperson for Kamala Harris and a fiercely loyal member of President Joe Biden's team, will be resigning from her position at the end of the year as the vice president faces a growing number of questions about her future.

Black parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, talked about how, for years, they showed up to school board meetings—just as the white CRT opposers do—to discuss Black students being forced to endure humiliating and disturbing lessons that trivialized slavery by turning it into a game. They said their concerns went ignored.

Stacey Abrams, the voting rights icon whose hard work organizing contributed to key and historic Democratic victories last year, has officially launched her campaign to be governor of Georgia and said she will run in the 2022 mid-term elections.

Tragedy has struck the home of legendary music executive Clarence Avant. The Black Godfather's wife, Jacqueline Avant, was shot and killed during a home invasion robbery on Tuesday night.

After serving her three-year prison sentence, the former beauty queen will have to submit to four years of supervised release

The 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability, which can occur at around 24 weeks of pregnancy, is facing a major reversal.

Virginia Commonwealth University recently closed the freshman dormitory Johnson Hall for the remainder of the school year after complaints of humidity, moisture, and mold.