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For more than 50 nights, Gabriel Johnson, 48, a retired Marine, has been kept awake by the sounds of rioting and explosions taking place outside his window in Portland, Ore. After two months of living in fear, at 3 a.m. Sunday he had had enough, “at that point I [had] counted 82 explosions and just thought, you…

A protester holds a Black Lives Matter sign in front of the White House. In 2015, thousands of Black activists gathered in Ohio for the first national Black Lives Matter convention to consider where the movement would direct its energy. Attendees in the crowd held up red construction paper to signal “no” to a handful…

July 21, 2020 | 9:47am | Updated July 21, 2020 | 1:18pm Four black women are on Joe Biden’s shortlist of candidates for vice president, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said Monday. “I am not committed to naming any but the people I’ve named, and among them are four black women,” Biden said on MSNBC’s…

Joe Biden has said that four Black women are currently among those being vetted to be his vice president.Speaking on MSNBC's "The Reid Out" show on Monday, he did not commit to picking a Black woman for the job, but said his whole administration will "look like America."He did not share the names of people…

Science|Black Children Are More Likely to Die After Surgery Than White Peers, Study ShowsA large study, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggests that disparities exist in surgery outcomes, even among healthy children.An operating room at a hospital in New Haven, Conn., in 2018.Credit...Christopher Capozziello for The New York TimesJuly 20, 2020, 5:24 p.m. ETBlack children…