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Virginia's own Viola Roberts Lampkin Brown hit the big 1-1-0 on October 4, 2021, making her the first and only supercentenarian to reside in the southern state out of the six in total still living.

On October 7, in Huntsville, Alabama, 29-year-old Christina Nance was found dead inside a Huntsville Police Department van. The Huntsville Police Department said she got in on her own, and they have the surveillance footage to prove it.

Nikki Fried believes DeSantis' new medical marijuana licensing rule will increase the application fees for protected black farmers by more than double the cost.

Crime

Bobby Love, the fugitive who lived a double life for decades, and his wife visited the set of the "TODAY" show to discuss the new book, “The Redemption of Bobby Love."

Defense attorneys for Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who shot killed Daunte Wright because she purportedly confused her gun for a Taser, said the shooting "is not a crime" and may argue that it was "reasonable."

Opinion

American diversity is in the spotlight as racial discrimination in the United States reemerges as a major topic of public discussion, touching everything from education to housing to policing.

Ibrahim Rotich, the husband of a Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner Agnes Tirop, who was found dead this week in a grisly stabbing, has been arrested and charged with her murder.

Brothers of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and the Nu Epsilon chapter at Alabama A&M University, an HBCU where Jelani Day attended, launched a petition to demand the FBI investigate the Black man's suspicious death in Illinois.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

Bill Cosby is speaking out after yet another accuser came forward this week and filed an "unconstitutional" lawsuit against the disgraced comedian claiming he drugged and raped her decades ago in New Jersey more than 30 years ago.

The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died more than a year ago, but a new report contextualizing her already known criticisms of Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest has revived commentary about her views on the topic of race.

Police Brutality

Indianapolis Sgt. Eric Huxley has been charged with one felony count each of official misconduct and battery after body camera footage showed him kicking 39-year-old Jermaine Vaughn in the face while he was handcuffed.

A black man is in critical condition in Augusta, Georgia, after police tased him during a traffic stop. Jermaine Jones Jr., 24, was stopped by Richmond County Police at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Clifton Street.