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Revelers traveling for July Fourth festivities may face delays due to stormy weather as the country braces for the busiest week of Independence Day air travel in 15 years.

On Wednesday, trouble spots for travel include Florida, due to showers and thunderstorms, and Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, due to lingering delays.

This comes after ground stops were issued up and down the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday, creating chaos in airports in New York City, Boston and Washington, D.C., though skies have mostly cleared since then.

Travel has been a headache on the East Coast for the past several days. Video showed people sitting on the floor at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday due to storms.

A flood watch is also in place Wednesday for the Norfolk, Virginia, area after heavy rain moved through in the last 24 hours.

The good news is most of the nation will enjoy clear skies — prime for firework viewing — come July Fourth. The only potential trouble spots on Independence Day are the northern Plains with heavy thunderstorms and Florida with heavy rain.

The Federal Aviation Administration said this will be a particularly busy holiday with 300,000 flights throughout the week.

On Wednesday, there are 49,784 scheduled flights; on Thursday, 51,284; and on Friday, July 4, 35,066.

The number of daily flights is then expected to increase, after July Fourth, with 42,866 scheduled flights on Saturday, 47,966 on Sunday and 50,128 on Monday.

The Transportation Security Administration said it expects more than 18.5 million people to travel by air over the Fourth of July holiday and pass through the nation’s airport security checkpoints.

This year’s projection spans July 1 through July 7 with the highest passenger volume of 2.9 million expected on July 6.

“TSA continues to work closely with our industry partners and ensure our airport security checkpoints are fully staffed and prepared to handle the heavy rush of traffic,” TSA acting Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said.

United Airlines said it expects to fly more than 6 million passengers from June 27 to July 7 — about 500,000 more than last year. Of those days, June 27 and July 3 are forecast to be the busiest travel days, with United projecting about 580,000 passengers each day.

The American Automobile Association said a record 72.2 million Americans are expected to travel domestically this week from June 28 to July 6 — an increase in 1.7 million travelers compared with last year and 7 million more than in 2019.

Of those travelers, AAA projects 61.6 million people will travel by car, 5.84 million by air and 4.78 million by bus, train or cruise.

AAA said top holiday destinations — drawing crowds with beaches, fireworks or both — include the Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Orlando; Seattle; New York; Anchorage, Alaska; and Hawaii.

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Diddy’s federal trial reached a stunning conclusion this morning when the jury of 12 everyday New Yorkers delivered a mixed verdict, acquitting him on the more serious counts, racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, butfinding him guilty on two interstate prostitution charges.

Diddy faces a potential prison sentence of as much as 20 years. But with the not guilty verdict on the three other counts in the U.S. government’s case, he has avoided a maximum possible sentence of life behind bars.

The seven-week trial inside the federal courthouse in Manhattan featured 34 government witnesses and reams of oftentimes graphic testimony about drug-dazed “freak offs” and alleged physical assaults. U.S. government prosecutors attempted to paint a scathing portrait of a man who, they argued, refused to take “no” for an answer.

Ultimately, though, the jury panel was not convinced that the Grammy-winning rapper led an alleged criminal enterprise or sex-trafficked two of his ex-girlfriends, the R&B singer Cassie Ventura and a woman identified by the pseudonym “Jane.”

The mogul’s lawyers insisted that both Ventura and Jane were willing participants in marathon sexual encounters with male escorts in luxury hotel rooms. The defense didn’t call any witnesses to the stand, but it used cross-examinations to portray Ventura and Jane as consenting adults and highlighted text messages in which both women expressed enthusiasm about “hotel nights.”

Diddy, who had pleaded not guilty to all counts, still faces a raft of civil lawsuits accusing him of rape and sexual assault — and it remains to be seen whether he can ever recover his position at the height of American music, where he helped catapult hip-hop into a worldwide phenomenon.

Thank you for following along with us over the last two months. Stay tuned for more coverage of this case on NBCNews.com.

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🔎 The view from inside

By Adam Reiss, Chloe Melas, Katherine Koretski and Jing Feng

The tension and anxiety inside the courtroom were palpable when the jury informed the court it had reached a unanimous verdict. Diddy, who appeared increasingly on edge yesterday, sat at the defense table with his head down. You could practically hear a pin drop.

Then the verdict was read to the court. The jurors were stoned-faced and didn’t appear to look directly at the defendant.

Diddy’s team was clearly elated. Teny Geragos, one of his lawyers, wept and wiped away tears with a tissue. The attorneys hugged each other. (In fact, defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo hugged Geragos so tightly he picked her up off the floor.) Diddy, for his part, got down on his knees, put his head on his chair and prayed.

Diddy’s family members— including his mother, Janice Combs — clapped and cheered loudly. They left the building without taking questions, ignoring the throngs of photographers and passersby who had massed outside the courthouse.

“I want to really thank all of you for your hard work and dedication,” U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian told the jurors. He praised them for their “tremendous sacrifice … with no reward other than answering the call to public service.”

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👨‍⚖️ Analysis: How will sentencing play out?

By Laura Jarrett

Diddy’s defense team and federal prosecutors will submit to the court what they believe is an appropriate sentence for the music mogul.

Misty Marris, a defense attorney and legal analyst, told me that Diddy’s team will likely ask for no more jail time, considering the time served. The prosecution will likely ask for closer to the maximum recommendation.

The probation department then will review the case and make a recommendation based on various factors — including the fact that this is the first time Diddy has been convicted of this type of charge and his behavior behind bars.

“The judge is really limited in those sentencing guidelines. There’s discretion up to that 10 years, but they’re going to use those guidelines in order to really pin down what would be appropriate under the circumstances,” Marris told me.

President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to increase its exports and lower its imports. Thanks to a historic decline in the value of the U.S. dollar, he may get his wish — but at a cost he may not have anticipated.

Over the past six months, the dollar has declined more than 10% compared with a basket of currencies from the U.S.’ major trading partners — something it has not done since 1973. Today, it sits at a three-year low.

The simplest explanation for the decline is that global investors now expect the U.S. economy to no longer outperform the rest of the world as a result of Trump’s tariffs and worsening fiscal issues. Even with U.S. stocks returning to record highs, the return on other countries’ equities has been even stronger. Meanwhile the return on lending to the U.S. is expected to decline as growth here slows.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Many, including members of Trump’s own Cabinet, assumed his tariffs strategy would strengthen the value of the dollar relative to foreign currencies. The thinking behind it was that as American consumers began to purchase fewer foreign goods, those other countries’ currencies would weaken relative to the dollar.

Instead, the opposite has occurred. U.S. growth prospects have weakened — in part because of Trump’s tariffs. That has made U.S. debt relatively less attractive for foreign investors, especially compared with the returns on lending to other countries, like Germany and Japan, that are now expected to experience higher growth.

In theory, the advantage of a weaker U.S. dollar is that it makes goods produced in the U.S. more attractive to foreign markets.

Yet it is too soon to say whether that is occurring. In anticipation of Trump’s tariffs, U.S. firms massively increased their imports in the first three months of this year to avoid paying the new duties, and it will be weeks before second-quarter data is released.

Even then, that data will likely only show a snapback effect from the first quarter’s upswing. And while Trump has announced a flurry of new investments designed to beef up U.S. production capacity, many of those endeavors are months or even years from coming on line.

One obvious effect of a weakening U.S. dollar is that it becomes more expensive for Americans to go to popular destinations abroad, since the greenback will be worth less than local currencies. In essence, your money won’t stretch as far. Of course, such excursions tend to be taken largely by travelers who are less worried about increased costs.

At home, a bigger concern is inflation, and lost purchasing power for U.S. consumers and businesses, who still remain heavily reliant on imports. Until America is able to sustainably produce more goods on its own at higher volumes, purchasing power will decline as it becomes relatively more expensive to import goods from abroad.

In the meantime, analysts say, a more alarming trend may be taking root: Foreigners are no longer buying U.S. financial assets, like stocks and bonds, at the levels that have allowed the U.S. to finance its trade deficit in the first place. Although U.S. stocks have returned to record levels, on a relative basis, they’ve underperformed their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere.

“It’s often forgotten that the U.S. is not only reliant on foreigners’ goods, but we’re also meaningfully reliant on foreign capital to support our financial markets,” said Bob Elliott, chief investment officer at Unlimited Funds financial group. “Your bonds are bought by European investors, your stock is bought by European investors — that is making you feel wealthier.”

A weaker dollar, he said, could weigh on foreign investors’ willingness to buy U.S. financial assets, “which are so critical to supporting U.S. household balance sheets.”

“An emerging theme in asset management is the rotation out of US assets into Europe as investors seek non-US exposure,” Bank of America’s Hubert Lam and Christiane Holstein said in a late June note. “Sentiment toward US markets has turned negative due to mounting concerns over protectionist trade measures, abrupt policy shifts, a rising deficit, and a proposal for taxes targeting foreign investors in the US.”

“As such, investors are starting to diversify out of the US in both public and private markets,” they said.

The Bank of America analysts added that many international investors are reallocating their investment choices to their home markets, especially in Europe, “for policy stability” and “patriotic” reasons.

On the other hand, a handful of analysts say fears of continued U.S. dollar weakness are overblown, and that U.S. economic exceptionalism will ultimately prevail. The U.S. has always outperformed on growth thanks to its dynamic markets and pro-growth regulations, and Trump’s bill cementing massive tax cuts — plus initial data showing the U.S. labor market remained relatively sturdy in June — have already provided a brief rally in the dollar’s value this week.

But assuming U.S. growth does weaken, the Federal Reserve will likely start cutting interest rates, further making U.S. financial assets less attractive to outside investors. That will cause the value of the dollar to decline even further, making it even more expensive to buy goods from abroad.

“It’s a doom loop,” said Danny Dayan, an investor and former hedge fund manager.

“So far, the inflation data have been quite benign,” Dayan said. “But we know tariffs will raise prices to some degree.” A weakening dollar will only contribute to accelerating price growth, he said.

Jurors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking trial have reached a full verdict Wednesday that could land the music titan in prison for life if he is convicted of the most serious charges.

The announcement comes on the third day of deliberations in a seven-week trial after the jury said Tuesday it agreed on four of five counts except on the one count of racketeering conspiracy.

The U.S. government accused the Bad Boy Records founder of leveraging his power, wealth and influence as the head of a “criminal enterprise” to sexually abuse and exploit women for his own gratification over two decades.

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The disgraced music mogul pleaded not guilty and has vigorously denied the allegations.

His defense pitched to jurors that the case against Combs was “badly exaggerated,” and that he was simply on trial for a “swingers” lifestyle — one tinged with violent behavior and included supplies of drugs and baby oil — that was ultimately consensual.

The dueling depictions cast a far different image of the Harlem-born hitmaker, who once ruled the hip-hop and R&B charts, was a fixture in celebrity circles and propelled his exuberant personality, lavish lifestyle and business pursuits, including in reality television and fashion, into a global entrepreneur and brand ambassador.

The jury of 12 New Yorkers — eight men and four women — were tasked with weighing multiple charges against the 55-year-old Combs:

• one count of racketeering conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
• two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison.
• two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

The trial heard from almost three dozen government witnesses, from former personal assistants to stylists to label artists, some willingly testifying against Combs, while others were granted immunity in exchange for their testimony.

Three women, including Combs’ former girlfriend R&B singer Cassie, were central figures in the case, as they provided graphic testimony of allegations of sexual assault and violence or threats of blackmail.

Combs’ lawyers called no witnesses of their own and the defendant himself decided not to testify, as much of the defense’s case was laid out during lengthy cross-examinations of government witnesses.

The high-profile trial at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan was not televised. The main courtroom was routinely packed, as Combs’ mother and six adult children regularly showed up in support, with Combs — often in a sweater and khakis — mouthing, “I love you” or forming his hands in a heart shape.

On the racketeering conspiracy charge, a jury must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was involved in an enterprise among two or more people to engage in at least two criminal acts affecting interstate commerce — offenses that may include kidnapping, arson, bribery, forced labor, sex trafficking and other underlying crimes.

For the standalone sex trafficking charge, prosecutors must demonstrate the defendant by force or threat compelled others to commit commercial sex acts in which something of value, such as money, was received.

During her nearly five-hour closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik reminded the jury about various government witnesses who testified about the alleged crimes. She said an ex-assistant of Combs, Capricorn Clark, was subjected to kidnapping and forced labor, while a romantic rival of Combs, the rapper Kid Cudi, had his car firebombed in an act of arson.

A former assistant who testified under the pseudonym “Mia” and accused Combs of sexually assaulting her multiple times was another example of forced labor, Slavik said.

On the two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, Slavik told jurors that they did not need to believe Cassie, whose full name is Casandra Ventura, or another ex-girlfriend, who testified under “Jane,” were engaged in sex acts against their will in every instance.

The women testified to freak offs and “hotel nights,” which were the names for drug-induced sexual encounters with male escorts they said Combs routinely manipulated them into — otherwise, recorded videos of the explicit sex acts could be shared with others. (Jurors and Combs were played clips from the videos as part of the prosecution’s evidence, but they were not shown to the full courtroom.)

“So, if there was one time, one single freak off, when the defendant knew or recklessly disregarded that Cassie or Jane was participating because of his lies, his threats or his violence, then that’s it,” Slavik said, “he’s guilty.”

Combs’ defense team maintained that he operated a legitimate business and was being unfairly targeted by overzealous prosecutors.

“Sean Combs has become something that is very, very hard to become, very hard to be,” lead defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo said in his four-hour closing arguments. “He is a self-made successful Black entrepreneur.”

While Agnifilo didn’t deny Combs was consumed by bouts of jealousy and engaged in angry tirades that involved domestic violence, the women, ultimately, chose to stay with him, while those in his inner circle had the agency to leave, he said.

“If racketeering conspiracy had an opposite, it would be their relationship,” Agnifilo said of Combs and Ventura, who dated on and off from about 2007 to 2018.

One key piece of evidence played for the jury repeatedly and frame by frame was security footage showing Combs physically assaulting Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016. She testified that he was angered because she was attempting to leave a freak off.

“We own the domestic violence. We own it. I hope you guys know this,” Agnifilo told the jury, while denying Combs was a mastermind who conspired with his employees to commit crimes.

“If he was charged with domestic violence, we wouldn’t all be here having a trial because he would have pled guilty because he did that,” Agnifilo said. “He did not do the things he’s charged with.”

Combs has been held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest last fall.

No matter the outcome of the criminal case, Combs must contend with a slew of lawsuits that have included accusations of rape and sexual assault. Combs, who has denied such allegations, has accused various plaintiffs of pursuing quick “paydays.”

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Researchers on Wednesday announced a new expedition to find ​​Amelia Earhart’s plane, based on evidence that suggests the famed aviator may have crash-landed on a remote island in the South Pacific.

A satellite photo may appear to show the remains of Earhart’s plane peeking through the sand on the small, remote and inhospitable island lagoon of Nikumaroro in Kiribati, nearly 1,000 miles from Fiji, according to Richard Pettigrew, the executive director of the nonprofit Archaeological Legacy Institute in Oregon.

In one of the world’s most intriguing mysteries, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished while attempting to fly around the world exactly 88 years ago on July 2, 1937.

Now, Purdue University — which had employed Earhart and helped fund her historic flight — said it will send a team to Nikumaroro in November in hopes of digging up her Lockheed Electra 10E aircraft and returning what’s left of it.

“We believe we owe it to Amelia and her legacy at Purdue to fulfill her wishes, if possible, to bring the Electra back to Purdue,” Steve Schultz, Purdue’s general counsel, said.

The satellite photo was captured in 2015, a year after an intense tropical cyclone shifted the sand, potentially revealing the plane, said Pettigrew, who took the evidence to Purdue.

He said the size and composition of the object matches Earhart’s plane. The location is also close to Earhart’s planned flight path and almost precisely where four of her radio calls for help seem to originate, said Pettigrew, who has traveled to Nikumaroro.

“It satisfies all the criteria,” he said. “Everything fits.”

The archaeologist, who has tried to solve Earhart’s disappearance for years, said other evidence, including the discovery of American-made tools and a medicine vial, suggests Earhart may have been on Nikumaroro.

And in 2017, four forensic dogs and a team of archaeologists with the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) ventured to Nikumaroro, where the canines indicated they had detected the scent of human remains, according to National Geographic.

Still, there’s been no clear proof of her presence there, Pettigrew said, and the object seen in the satellite photo has been elusive. In images taken since 2015, it is hidden under the sand again, he said.

“What we lack now so far is what you call, what I call the smoking gun evidence,” he said.

TIGHAR executive director Ric Gillespie doubts they will find that proof.

Gillespie’s team on The Earhart Project has conducted a dozen expeditions over 35 years and recovered other physical evidence they believe shows Nikumaroro is where Earhart landed and died. But he believes the object in the satellite image is a coconut palm tree with a root ball, washed up in a storm.

“We’ve looked there in that spot, and there’s nothing there,” he said.

Gillespie, who published the book “One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy” last year, said the plane would not be hidden in the sand but buried in coral rubble.

“I understand the desire to find a piece of Amelia Earhart’s airplane. God knows we’ve tried,” he said. “But the data, the facts, do not support the hypothesis. It’s as simple as that.”

Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

The trailblazer worked at Purdue, serving as a career counselor for women and an adviser on its aeronautical engineering department, from 1935 until her disappearance in 1937, according to the university’s website.

Schultz, Purdue’s general counsel, said Earhart’s post-flight plan was to return the plane to the school to be studied by future aeronautical engineers and aviation students.

The Purdue Research Foundation has given the first phase of the expedition a line of credit of $500,000, Schultz said.

It will take six days for the team of explorers to get to Nikumaroro by boat in November, he said. They’ll then have another five days on the island to find the object in the sand and identify it as the missing plane.

“If we hopefully solve the mystery and confirm that it is, then there will be further efforts to bring it back, hopefully to a permanent home,” Schultz said.

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for more than 500,000 Haitians who are already in the United States.

District Court Judge Brian M. Cogan in New York ruled that moving up the expiration of the temporary protected status, or TPS, by at least five months for Haitians, some of whom have lived in the U.S. for more than a decade, is unlawful.

The Biden administration had extended Haiti’s TPS status through at least Feb. 3, 2026, due to gang violence, political unrest, a major earthquake in 2021 and several other factors, according to court documents.

But last week, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was terminating those legal protections as soon as Sept. 2, setting Haitians up for potential deportation. The department said the conditions in the country had improved and Haitians no longer met the conditions for the temporary legal protections.

The ruling comes as President Donald Trump works to end protections and programs for immigrants as part of his mass deportations promises.

The judge’s 23-page opinion states that the Department of Homeland Security ‘s move to terminate the legal protections early violates the TPS statute that requires a certain amount of notice before reconsidering a designation.

“When the Government confers a benefit over a fixed period of time, a beneficiary can reasonably expect to receive that benefit at least until the end of that fixed period,” according to the ruling.

The judge also referenced the fact that the plaintiffs have started jobs, enrolled in schools and begun receiving medical treatment with the expectations that the country’s TPS designation would run through the end of the year.

Manny Pastreich, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, which filed the lawsuit, described the ruling as an “important step” but said the fight is not over.

“We will keep fighting to make sure this decision is upheld,” Pastreich said in a statement. “We will keep fighting for the rights of our members and all immigrants against the Trump Administration – in the streets, in the workplace, and in the courts as well. And when we fight, we win.”

DHS did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press requesting comment. But the government had argued that TPS is a temporary program and thus “the termination of a country’s TPS designation is a possibility beneficiaries must always expect.”

Haiti’s TPS status was initially activated in 2010 after the catastrophic earthquake and has been extended multiple times, according to the lawsuit.

Gang violence has displaced 1.3 million people across Haiti as the local government and international community struggle with the spiraling crisis, according to a report from the International Organization for Migration. There has been a 24% increase in displaced people since December, with gunmen having chased 11% of Haiti’s nearly 12 million inhabitants from their home, the report said.

In May, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The order put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept the legal protections in place.

The judge’s decision in New York also comes on the heels of the Trump administration revoking legal protections for thousands of Haitians who arrived legally in the U.S. through a humanitarian parole program.

DETROIT — State and federal authorities are investigating an online company that pledges to help people find their eternal love, Michigan’s attorney general said Tuesday.

Search warrants were executed at two homes in northern Michigan’s Leelanau County where Twin Flames Universe is based, Attorney General Dana Nessel said.

Twin Flames, which is operated by Jeff and Shaleia Divine, has been the subject of unflattering documentaries on Netflix and Amazon Prime. It offers to help people find a lifelong romantic partner — a “twin flame” — through a “spiritual journey.”

Nessel said there are allegations that Twin Flames exerts “coercive control” over its members across the U.S. through illegal acts.

She didn’t disclose what investigators were seeking with search warrants. The Associated Press sent a message seeking comment through the Twin Flames website, but it was not immediately answered.

Twin Flames has a variety of products, from a $9.99 Kindle book to the $8,888 “everything package,” with access to hundreds of hours of videos, guided meditation and other lessons.

In March, Twin Flames posted a statement defending its mission.

“We take seriously recent allegations implying we wield inappropriate control over our community members. After a careful review of both media coverage and recent productions, we are saddened that so much effort has gone into taking swipes at an organization and community founded on love and mutual respect,” Twin Flames said.

Nessel encouraged people to contact her office if they want to share information about Twin Flames.

Jackson, Miss. — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American society.

“It’s painful,” said Reena Evers-Everette. “It’s very painful.”

Evers-Everette was 8 years old when her father, a field secretary for the NAACP, was shot to death in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

A few months after Evers’ killing in 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down. The deaths of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy followed later that decade.

Now, experts say the level of political violence in America over the past few years is likely the highest it’s been since the 1960s and 1970s. The past year alone has seen the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers, and two assassination attempts on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.

At a four-day conference celebrating Evers’ life just before what would have been his 100th birthday on July 2, his daughter was joined by the daughters of slain civil rights leaders: Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and Bettie Dahmer, the daughter of civil and voting rights activist Vernon Dahmer. The 2025 Democracy in Action Convening, “Medgar Evers at 100: a Legacy of Justice, a Future of Change,” was held in Jackson.

“I just was feeling so much pain, and I didn’t want anyone else to have to go through that,” Kennedy said, recalling that after her father died, she prayed for the man who killed him. “I was saying, ‘Please don’t — please don’t kill the guy that killed him.’”

Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams spoke at the event, denouncing efforts by the Trump administration to strip the names of activists from Navy vessels, including possibly Evers.

“They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward,” Abrams told the conference crowd.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has undertaken an effort to change the names of ships and military bases that were given by President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration, which often honored service members who were women, people of color, or from the LGBTQ+ community.

Abrams drew parallels between acts of radical political violence and the Trump administration’s use of military resources against protesters in Los Angeles who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement actions.

“Unfortunately, we cannot decry political violence and then sanction the sending of the Marines and the National Guard to stop protesters and not believe that that conflicting message doesn’t communicate itself,” Abrams told The Associated Press. “What I want us to remember is that whether it is Medgar Evers or Melissa Hortman, no one who is willing to speak for the people should have their lives cut short because of what they say.”

In addition to her father’s life and legacy, Evers-Everette wants people to remember the hatred that led to his assassination.

“We have to make sure we know what our history is,” she said. “So we don’t repeat the crazy, nasty, racist mess.”