The star of “Black Panther” died at age 43, following a four-year fight against colon cancer Source
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Passage: “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman
“Sunday Morning” looks back at the all-too-brief career of the star of “42,” “Get On Up,” “Marshall” and “Black Panther,” who died Friday at age 43 after a four-year fight against colon cancer. Lee Cowan reports. Source
The use of “less-lethal” force by law enforcement
As protests against police brutality take place around the country, people have been injured and maimed by what police call “less-lethal” weapons, often deployed without significant training Source
The police use of less-lethal force
As protests against police brutality continue around the country, so, too, have people been injured and maimed by what police call “less-lethal” weapons. While most police departments have access to tools designed to control crowds, experts say few are offered any significant training in how to use them. Correspondent Lee Cowan looks into the lethality of such police weapons, and talks with a protester and journalist whose lives have been changed upon being struck by projectiles intended to be non-lethal. Source
Book excerpt: “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke
The bestselling novelist follows her award-winning debut, “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,” with a magical, labyrinthine fantasy Source
Book excerpt: “Transcendent Kingdom” by Yaa Gyasi
In the new novel by the author of “Homecoming,” Ghanaian immigrants in Alabama search for the answers to their family’s suffering by turning to science and to faith Source
Book excerpt: “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend classifications based on race, gender or class Source
Book excerpt: “Homeland Elegies” by Ayad Akhtar
In a new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of “American Dervish” and “Disgraced,” an immigrant father and his son search for identity in post-Trump America Source
The Book Report: Reviews from Washington Post critic Ron Charles (August 30)
Recommendations of new fiction and non-fiction titles Source
1 shot and killed as Trump supporters and protesters clash in Portland
Officers arrived at the shooting scene “within a minute,” police said, but the man who was shot did not survive. Source