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Trymaine Lee

Trymaine Lee

Trymaine Lee is an NBC News correspondent.

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Eric Okdeh's mural "Forgiveness."

The staggeringly high cost the United States pays for easy access to guns

Ron DeSantis with supporters in Atlanta on Aug. 18, 2023.

How the right broke ‘woke’

Illustration of Trymaine Lee and Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.

Recognizing America’s greatest sins — and repaying its greatest debts

Image: Photographs at the Ebony Barber Shop in the Fifth Ward, a historic Black community, in Evanston, Illinois, on March 17, 2021.

Evanston’s $400,000 down payment for national Black reparations

Image: Pedestrians on a summer day in Harlem, N.Y., in 1935.

Jacob Lawrence painted Black America for Black people — not the white gaze

Image: Washington riot capitol

White rioters at the Capitol got police respect. Black protestors got rubber bullets.

Image: Black sunglasses against a yellow background. One lens shows a image of protestors holding a sign that reads,"When does our American dream begin?". The other lens has a sign that reads," black lives matter"

Biden needs to push for reparations to address the racism that long preceded Trump

Image; Donald Trump, Ice Cube and Joe Biden on a background of red and blue triangles.

Democrats would rather mock Ice Cube then grapple with what he represents

The City: Prison’s Grip on the Black Family

A "Justice for Tamir" sign is held aloft on Nov. 22, 2015. (Photo by Andy Katz/Pacific Press/Sipa/AP)

Analysis: The cost of a black boy’s life? $6 million.