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Missouri paper owners resign in protest over racist cartoon

by Associated Press
| June 10, 2020 5:03 PM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The co-owners of a family-owned Missouri newspaper resigned from their positions in protest Wednesday after the publication of a racist syndicated cartoon that depicted a black man stealing a purse from a white woman while hailing funding cuts to police.

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