Race and ethnicity

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FILE - Black Panthers stand guard while the hearse carrying the body of George Jackson arrives at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland, Calif., Aug. 28, 1971. Jackson, a Black Panther member, author and prison activist was killed a week earlier during a deadly uprising and escape attempt at San Quentin State Prison. First celebrated in 1979, Black August was originally created to commemorate Jackson's fight for Black liberation. It has since evolved into a monthlong awareness campaign and celebration dedicated to Black American freedom fighters, revolutionaries, radicals and political prisoners, both living and deceased. (AP Photo / Robert Klein, File)

Black August

AP package brings to light Black August, a commemoration of radical Black activism

SEPT. 2, 2022

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Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old who was abducted and lynched near the Delta community of Money, Miss., in 1955, is shown in an undated portrait. AP broke the news that a team searching for evidence in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse in June 2022 found the unserved warrant for the white woman whose unproven accusations led to his kidnapping and death. Relatives of Till want authorities to finally arrest Carolyn Bryant Donham nearly 70 years later. (AP Photo, File)

Civil rights

AP Exclusive: Unserved 1955 arrest warrant discovered for woman at center of Emmett Till case

JULY 8, 2022

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Federal police officers arrive at the pier with human remains recovered during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, western Brazil, June 15, 2022. A federal police investigator said a suspect confessed to fatally shooting Pereira and Phillips in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried. (AP Photo / Edmar Barros)

Activists

AP ahead on disappearance, killings of British journalist and Indigenous expert in the Amazon

JUNE 24, 2022

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In a long-exposure photo made May 25, 2022, traffic drives past a makeshift memorial for Samara Banks and her three children who were struck and killed by a car in 2013 on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia. The Boulevard, sometimes called “the corridor of death,” is among the highly dangerous traffic areas in communities of color throughout the U.S. suffering from disproportionately high rates of vehicle fatalities and poor infrastructure. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke)

Infrastructure

Beyond the numbers, AP puts faces to the disparity in road fatalities for communities of color

JUNE 10, 2022

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A tear rolls down Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's cheek as Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Associate justice

AP photos, reporting capture cathartic moment in Jackson confirmation hearings

APRIL 1, 2022

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U.S. Highway 101 crosses the Klamath River as the town of Klamath, Calif., is shrouded in fog at sunrise, Jan. 21, 2022. Klamath is home to the tribal headquarters for the Yurok Tribe, which has issued an emergency declaration on human trafficking and missing women. Fiver Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered between San Francisco and the Oregon border in the past 18 months, including the case of 33-year-old Emmilee Risling. (AP Photo / Nathan Howard)

California

Exclusive package tells one family’s story, highlighting the crisis of missing, slain Native women

MARCH 4, 2022

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A statue, seen from behind, depicting Chief Tomochichi, a Muscogee native who signed the 1733 treaty that launched the Georgia colony, stands at a temporary location in Atlanta, Dec. 20, 2021. The statue was intended for a park honoring civil rights figures, but Muscogee Nation historians call their ancestor a traitor who was complicit in genocide. They also say the statue is inaccurate — he would have been fully clothed, not clutching a bear pelt. (AP Photo / Michael Warren)

Civil rights

AP reveals dark legacy of Native American depicted on Atlanta civil rights statue

FEB. 18, 2022

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At left, nurse Tamzyn Weibort straightens baby clothes in the baby boutique room at Portico Crisis Pregnancy Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 26, 2022. AP found about a dozen states that have passed more restrictive abortion laws have also funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to privately operated clinics that steer women away from abortions but provide little if any health care services. At right, Amanda Furdge is interviewed in Clinton, Miss., Dec. 10, 2021, describing the contrast of easily finding abortion services when she lived in Illinois, but the difficulty of finding the services after she moved back to Mississippi, which has only one abortion clinic., during an interview in Clinton, Miss., on Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Abortion

Accountability reporting uncovers taxpayer-funded anti-abortion centers, racial disparities in access

FEB. 11, 2022

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FILE – Takeshi Kasai, World Health Organization regional director for Western Pacific, addresses the media at an annual session in Manila, Philippines, Oct. 7, 2019. AP reporting has revealed that dozens of current and former staffers have accused Kasai of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic in the region. Kasai denies the charges. (AP Photo / Bullit Marquez, File)

Abusive behavior

Exclusive and explosive: WHO leader in Western Pacific accused of racism and abuse

FEB. 4, 2022

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks about the investigation into the death of Ronald Greene in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. AP revealed that Edwards was informed within hours of the May 2019 death of Black motorist Ronald Greene in violent struggle police. Yet Edwards said virtually nothing for two years as police peddled a false account. (AP Photo / Matthew Hinton)

Law enforcement

AP’s latest on deadly arrest of Ronald Greene: Louisiana governor knew of apparent cover-up

FEB. 4, 2022

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Joseph Moore stands for a portrait at a park in Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 8, 2021. Moore worked for nearly 10 years as an undercover informant for the FBI, infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, foiling at least two murder plots according to investigators, and investigating ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization. To keep a lifeline to his true character, Moore claims to have never used racial slurs while in character–even as his klan brethren tossed them around casually. (AP Photo / Robert Bumsted)

Florida

‘This is Joseph Moore’: FBI informant inside KKK reveals himself in riveting AP interview

DEC. 31, 2021

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States Military Academy cadets sit during their graduation ceremony at Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y., May 22, 2021. Despite the academies’ stated commitment to diversity and inclusion, an AP investigation found disparities in the racial composition of student bodies and graduation rates, and accounts of that ranged from racial slights to outright racist behavior.The U.S. military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of the armed services and have welcomed more racially diverse students. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Air Force

AP investigation, analysis reveals that despite diversity gains, racism still plagues US military academies

DEC. 10, 2021

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