Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she is introduced during the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.'s Grand Boulé, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Indianapolis. Darron Cummings/AP hide caption
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In this image taken from body camera video released by Illinois State Police, Sonya Massey, left, talks with former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson outside her home in Springfield, Ill., July 6, 2024. AP/Illinois State Police hide caption
Saturday
A hairdresser straightens a woman's hair by applying a hair product. A delayed proposal by the Food and Drug Administration would ban the use of formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers and hair straighteners. Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their roles in Bad Boys: Ride or Die - a return to their star-solidifying roles as Miami cops. Sony Pictures hide caption
Thursday
Michail Chkhikvishvili, alleged leader of a Neo-Nazi organization, was indicted at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse on Wednesday morning for soliciting violent hate crimes. If convicted on four counts, he faces 50 years in U.S. prison. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
Bernice Johnson Reagon, seen here at the memorial celebration for Odetta at Riverside Church in 2009 in New York City. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images hide caption
B.A. Parker at Somerset Place plantation as a child. Courtesy of B.A. Parker hide caption
Tuesday
Former NFL player Terrell Davis said Monday, July 15, 2024, he was “humiliated" after being handcuffed and removed from a United Airlines flight, then later apologized to by law enforcement, over the weekend. Here, Davis delivers his speech during induction ceremonies at the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in Canton, Ohio. David Richard/AP hide caption
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Wednesday
Video footage shows that Dvontaye Mitchell, 43, was held on the ground by multiple guards outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Milwaukee; he was declared dead soon afterward. The area where police say the struggle took place is seen here in a Google Maps image from 2022.
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A photo of Somerset Place plantation in North Carolina. B.A. Parker hide caption
Tuesday
Grammy award-winning soul singer Mavis Staples Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images hide caption
Tessie Prevost, center, and 7-year-old Elan Jolie Hebert are escorted by U.S. Marshal Michael Atkins up the steps of McDonogh 19 Elementary School as Prevost was escorted in 1960, during a New Orleans 61st anniversary ceremony in 2021. Prevost was one of the first African-American women who integrated the all-white public schools in New Orleans. Ted Jackson/AP hide caption
The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first time. The site is historically significant because it's where one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history began. Debbie Elliott/NPR hide caption
Sunday
California Gov. Gavin Newsom. This past week he signed a nearly $300 billion state budget in which $12 million was allocated for reparations legislation. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption