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Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, holds up a copy of a lawsuit filed on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public elementary schools during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Southern Poverty Law Center senior staff attorney Will Bardwell, explains the specifics to the lawsuit filed on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public elementary schools during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to Yad Vashem to honor the victims of the holocaust, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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This Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, photo shows a Target store in Philadelphia. New York's attorney general is announcing that 47 states and the District of Columbia have reached an $18.5 million settlement with Target Corp. to resolve the states' probe into the discounter's massive pre-Christmas data breach in 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this Wednesday, May 17, 2017 photo, Betty Jo Shelby leaves the courtroom with her husband, Dave Shelby, right, after the jury in her case began deliberations in Tulsa, Okla. Shelby, acquitted in the killing of an unarmed black man will be allowed to return to work, Tulsa police Chief Chuck Jordan said Friday, May 19. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Bill Cosby, center, arrives with one of his attorneys Angela Agrusa, right, for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Bill Cosby, right rear, arrives with one of his attorneys Angela Agrusa, center, for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Bill Cosby, center, arrives for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, Pool)
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Bill Cosby, left, arrives for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh, Pa. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, Pool)
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Bill Cosby, left, arrives for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh, Pa. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, Pool)
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Bill Cosby, center, arrives for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh, Pa. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, Pool)
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This undated photo provided by the Detroit Police Department shows Henry Johnson. Johnson, accused of setting a Detroit apartment fire that killed five people, has been ruled incompetent to stand trial, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (Detroit Police Department via AP)
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Bowie State University ROTC students comfort each other during a memorial vigil for Richard Collins III, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State's auditorium in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Bowie State students Michael Aregay, from left, Charles Marshall, Kevin Stovall Jr. and alumni Kiahl Fletcher join in a candle light vigil for Richard Collins III, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Relatives of Richard Collins III, center, release balloons during a candlelight vigil for Richard Collins III, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Lt. Col. Joel Thomas, professor of Military Sciences, wipes tears from his face while memorializing Richard Collins III during a memorial vigil for Collins, who was killed Saturday at the University of Maryland in College Park, as they gather at Bowie State's auditorium in Bowie, Md., Monday, May 22, 2017. Authorities appealed for patience Monday from two college communities reacting in shock, fear and anger after a white University of Maryland student was arrested in what police called the unprovoked stabbing of a black Bowie State University student. Collins was commissioned into the Army from the college's ROTC program. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Mourners embrace at a candlelight vigil on Monday, May 22, 2017, in Bowie, Md., at Bowie State University for Richard Collins III, who was stabbed to death over the weekend at the University of Maryland, College Park. Authorities are investigating the killing as a possible hate crime, because the suspect, Sean Urbanski, became a member of a racist Facebook group several months ago. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on worldwide threats. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Bill Cosby arrives for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Bill Cosby, right, arrives for the second day of jury selection in his sexual assault case at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Pittsburgh. The case is set for trial June 5 in suburban Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)