As the new Omicron coronavirus variant is identified by scientists in South Africa, health leaders say now is the time to finally address vaccine inequity; Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza on the “guilty” verdict for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers; Calls grow to drop the charges against Chrystul Kizer, a Black teenager who faces murder charges in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after she killed her alleged sex trafficker, a white man with a history of sexually abusing underage Black girls. She says it was done in self defense.

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