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Martin Shkreli arrives at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn for the start of his trial on June 26, 2017. A one-of-a-kind album recorded by the Wu-Tang Clan and sold at auction to the disgraced pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager has been purchased by an anonymous buyer for an undisclosed sum of money, the federal prosecutors who seized the album three years ago said Tuesday. (Sam Hodgson/The New York Times)

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Lawsuits and trials involving claims that talc in Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused cancer are ramping up again, with a new complaint filed Tuesday on behalf of the National Council of Negro Women. (Justin Sullivan/TNS)

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The 2020 Clark Atlanta University graduates head into Harkness Hall Quadrangle for their pandemic-belated graduation ceremony in Atlanta on Saturday, May 15, 2021. (Photo: Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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07/26/2021 — Newnan, Georgia — Peggy King Jorde (from left), Ayisat Idris-Hosch, Lillie Smith and Pastor Render Godfrey say a prayer and bless the ground at Farmer Street Cemetery in Newnan, Monday, July 26, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Rodney Crowell, right, performs in the Ryman Auditorium during a celebration of life marking the one-year anniversary of U.S. Rep. John Lewis's death Saturday, July 17, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

John Lewis tributes outside of Atlanta

People light their candles during the Good Trouble Vigil in Vine City on Saturday evening, July 17, 2021. Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the death of Congressman John Lewis. “Good trouble” was Lewis’ signature phrase, and, since his death, it has become shorthand for his approach that included nonviolent protest, activism and left-leaning politics. (Photo: Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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A woman who attended a dedication ceremony for a new Mississippi historical marker walks by the marker on Thursday in Meadville, Mississippi. The sign provides information about the 1964 Ku Klux Klan kidnapping and killing of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. Law enforcement officers found the bodies of the two Black teenagers in the Mississippi River while searching for three civil rights workers who had been kidnapped and killed by the Klan in June 1964 in a different part of Mississippi. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus)

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Portrait of C.T. Vivian at his home library as his daughter Charisse Thornton (background) and Dawnn Mitchell work on checking inventory on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. The National Monuments Foundation will be acquiring and managing the world-class library of Atlanta Civil Rights icon, C.T. Vivian. The library will be housed in the new Cook Park in Vine City. Vivian lived in the same Vine City neighborhood that will border Cook Park where his library is to be constructed under a 101-foot Peace Column. The 6,000 volume C.T. Vivian Library is one of the most impressive private collections in the city. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

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