Tragedy struck Saturday when 10 people were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo.
The suspect — an 18-year-old White man — shot 13 people. Eleven were Black.
Saturday’s massacre is the latest high-profile shooting in which authorities have said the suspect was motivated by hate, including attacks at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas; the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh; Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
“We are broken, possibly irreversibly,” Phylicia Dove, a resident in the community told CNN. “Will we ever be the same? No. Will we rebuild? Yes. Because we don’t have a choice. Black people in America have never had a choice.”
Recent Headline Stories
Here are some of the stories that made headlines over the past week, as well as some photos that caught our eye.
Israeli police confront mourners in Jerusalem on Friday, May 13, as they carry the casket of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead two days earlier while reporting on a military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.A shark cruises near the ocean floor on Wednesday, May 18, off the coast of Jupiter, Florida.Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II learns how to purchase a train ticket at the opening ceremony of the long-awaited Elizabeth line at Paddington station in London on May 17.South Korea’s An Se-young reacts after beating Denmark’s Mia Blichfeldt in the quarterfinals at the 2022 Thomas and Uber Cup badminton tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 12.Relatives react next to the body of Ukrainian military serviceman Pankratov Oleksandr during his funeral in Lviv, Ukraine, on May 14.The blood moon is seen during a total lunar eclipse in Rio de Janeiro on May 16.Abortion rights demonstrators walk across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on May 14, nearly two weeks after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.Ukraine’s folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra performs during the Eurovision Song Contest finals in Turin, Italy, on May 14.
Furthermore, this week, significant attention was drawn to various events, including political developments and cultural milestones that illustrate both humanity’s challenges and triumphs around the globe.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects on May 17, at a memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.Actress Aishwarya Rai arrives for the screening of “Armageddon Time” during the Cannes Film Festival in France, on May 19.
