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Demonstrators were gathered to protest the June 3 shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr., a Black man, by U.S. marshals in Minneapolis when a man plowed into a crowd Sunday night.

Voters in the Philippines go to the polls Monday for that country's presidential elections. We take a look at the last days of the campaign there.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta until his assassination.

Italian-Americans celebrate St. Joseph's Day on March 19 with a traditional pastry called a zeppole — a specialty for a family bakery in Providence, R.I.

Yolanda Denise King, the daughter and eldest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died in Santa Monica, Calif., according to a spokesman for the King Center. She was 51. Steve Klein said the King family did not immediately know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem.

Brian Higgins and Grace Meng, the two lead sponsors of the Aaron Salter, Jr. Responsible Body Armor Possession Act, say the bill is a commonsense law that protects law enforcement and the community.

The New York State Budget is once again past due, a regular occurrence in Governor Kathy Hochul’s tenure. BTPM’s Jamal Harris Jr. talks with state senate minority leader Rob Ortt on the challenges that have arose on trying to pass this year’s budget.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers television producer Norman Lear, who died this week at age 101.

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.

Bassist extraordinaire, composer, arranger, educator, curator and administrator, Christian McBride, has been one of the most important and most omnipresent figures in the jazz world for 20 years. Sometimes hard to believe considering this man just entered his 40's.