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Reruns of stories are available at http://apexchange.com, from the Service Desk at 800-838-4616, or your local AP bureau. Additional stories will be included in digest updates through the week. FOR THIS WEEK (for immediate release, except as noted): LEAVING HATE BEHIND Shannon Martinez was an unhappy teen and a victim of sexual assault. She sought out angry peers and became a skinhead spouting white supremacist rhetoric, giving stiff-armed Nazi salutes and tagging public property with swastikas. But later Martinez left the skinheads behind and today she's helping others do the same. By Jay Reeves. SENT: 1,000 words on Feb. 21. Photos, video. VENEZUELA UNDONE-LOST HOPE-ANALYSIS The economy is so crippled that tens of thousands are going hungry or even starving and the average shopper spends 35 hours a month waiting in line, while the murder rate is among the highest in the world — yet Venezuela's socialist government is more entrenched than ever as a sense of hopelessness has settled over what was once among the richest nations in South America. An AP News Analysis. By Hannah Dreier and Joshua Goodman. SENT: 1,300 words on Feb. 23. Video, photos. BRAZIL-PRISON MASSACRE As a holiday celebration died down at the prison in Manaus, a bloodbath beyond any worst-case scenario imagined by authorities swept through the yard, a brutality that laid bare Brazil's failed prison system and the gruesome war between gangs for influence in Latin America's largest nation. By Mauricio Savarese. SENT: 2,000 words, with abridged version, on Feb. 22. Photos. With: BC-BRAZIL-GANGS AND PRISONS-PHOTO GALLERY. GERMANY-IRAQ-YAZIDI TRAUMA DOHUK, Iraq — After their rape and torture by Islamic State extremists for months or years, Yazidi women face ongoing suffering from psychological trauma even if they do manage to escape. A new psychological training center is set to help them recover. By David Rising. SENT: 2,400 words, with an abridged version, on Feb. 22. Photos, video. SUPREME COURT-TRANSGENDER BATHOOMS Both the transgender teen who sued to use a boy's bathroom and the Virginia school board that won't let him still want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling in their ongoing dispute, even after the Trump administration retreated from an Obama-era policy on bathroom use. By Mark Sherman. SENT: 600 words On Feb. 24. Photo. With: BC-TRUMP-LGBT ISSUES — LBGT issues are becoming a test of loyalties for President Donald Trump — between the gay and lesbian community he says he supports and social conservatives who helped drive his victory. By Laurie Kellman and Jonathan Lemire. SENT: 930 words, photo. TRANSGENDER RIGHTS-STATES Bills to curtail transgender people's access to public restrooms are pending in a dozen states, but even in conservative bastions such as Texas and Arkansas they may be doomed by high-powered opposition. By National Writer David Crary. SENT: 900 words on Feb. 23. Photos, video. With: BC-TRANSGENDER RIGHTS-TIMELINE. GLASSES FOR THE BLIND SAN FRANCISCO — A new headset made by a Toronto company is helping people with limited vision, even legal blindness, see things they never could before. "These glasses have made my life so much better," says one user who's now able to read a newspaper and watch plays. By Michael Liedtke. SENT: 800 words on Feb. 24. Photos, Video. BLACK WALL STREET-TULSA-RESURGENCE TULSA, Okla. — An area of Tulsa once known as Black Wall Street, a southwestern Harlem of sorts and once home to a middle and upper class of 9,000 African Americans, was decimated decades ago amid one of the worst race riots in American history and the resulting fallout. Blacks rebuilt the area in the decades that followed, only to see their work wiped out during the so-called urban progress of the 1960s. Attempting to make good on failed hopes of an eventual renaissance, black leaders are now working to bring 100 businesses here by 2021 — marking the riot's 100th anniversary. By Justin Juozapavicius. SENT: 900 words on Feb. 22. Photos. Note: Other Black History Month stories listed below. FATHER OF THE SELFIE Every day for three decades, long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a photo of himself to document the aging process. Thursday is the 30th anniversary of the odd experiment hatched by the Boston College professor some dub the unwitting "father of the selfie." By Philip Marcelo. SENT: 550 words on Feb. 23. Photos. TECH TEST DRIVES Car shopping isn't just about kicking the tires anymore. It's also about testing the technology. Car buyers should make sure they know how to perform tasks like pairing their phone with a car or using the navigation system before leaving the dealer lot, experts say. By Dee-Ann Durbin. SENT: 880 words on Feb. 23. Photos. RUSSIA-CONSUMER GOODS Soyuz microphones are used by bands like Coldplay and Radiohead and made in Russia using machinery that used to produce Kalashnikovs. The manufacturer, a company of 12 workers, is a rare example of success among consumer goods businesses in Russia. By Natalia Suvorova. SENT: 980 words on Feb. 23. Photos. APOLLO 11-ROAD TRIP Apollo 11 is going on a new trip to teach people about its mission to the moon. The Smithsonian Institution is sending the command module, "Columbia," out on a tour to four museums across the U.S., the first time the space artifact has left Washington since it arrived 46 years ago. By Jessica Gresko. SENT: 900 words on Feb. 22. Photos. OSCARS-HOLLYWOOD LOVES ITSELF "La La Land" is only the latest of a string of recent Oscar contenders to exalt the movie business. Recent best-picture winners like "Birdman" and "The Artist" — and now potentially "La La Land" — are all animated by an anxiety with today's Hollywood — what kind of stories can escape the superhero industrial complex and which can dance past the rise of television. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. SENT: 950 words on Feb. 22. Photos. With: BC-OSCARS-HOLLYWOOD LOVES ITSELF-5 CLASSICS. OSCARS-THE BIG PREP It takes weeks of effort and a crew of specialists to get an A-list actress ready for the Oscars' red carpet, and the resulting photos can propel a thousand brands. A look at the elements involved in cultivating celebrity red-carpet perfection. By Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen. SENT: 900 words, on Feb. 24. Illustration. NOTE: A separate Oscars Enterprise advisory lists other offerings. ALSO: In addition to Black Wall Street-Tulsa Resurgence, above, here are some other offerings related to Black History Month: CIVIL RIGHTS ARCHITECT DURHAM, North Carolina — The National Museum of African American History and Culture was a long time coming, but for architect Phil Freelon it was right on time. "It seems like I was preparing for that my whole life," says Freelon, 63, a Philadelphia native who worked for years at firms in Texas and North Carolina before opening his own with one employee: himself. Freelon now enjoys a national reputation, designing projects such as the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. By Martha Waggoner. SENT: 950 words, photos, video. Moved Feb. 14. JOHN BROWN TO JAMES BROWN DARGAN, Maryland — From John Brown's raid to James Brown's wail, a stream of hot-blooded American history runs through a 19th-century farmstead in the Appalachian foothills of western Maryland. The restored log farmhouse near Dargan is where John Brown, the abolitionist, launched his ill-fated, 1859 seizure of a federal armory in nearby Harpers Ferry. But the John Brown roadside marker doesn't mention the array of black entertainers who performed on the same site a century later. James Brown, Ray Charles, Etta James and others headlined at John Brown's Farm. By David Dishneau. SENT: 800 words on Feb. 18, photos. TRAVEL-NEIGHBORHOODS-DENVER-FIVE POINTS DENVER — It was often called "The Harlem of West." It's where Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Miles Davis performed, and where novelist Jack Kerouac tried to capture the spirit of the bebop movement in "On The Road." But now, Denver's historically black Five Points neighborhood is facing the encroachment of gentrification with new breweries and coffee shops near buildings that once housed jazz clubs and consequential black-owned businesses. By Russell Contreras. SENT: 900 words on Feb. 14. Photos. TV-JOHN LEWIS DOCUMENTARY NEW YORK — John Lewis, who turns 77 this month, still radiates full-strength hope and love after 60 years in the Civil Rights struggle and as a member of Congress. "John Lewis: Get in the Way," a documentary portrait, aired Feb. 10 on PBS. A review by Television Writer Frazier Moore. SENT: 800 words on Feb. 9. Photo. BOOKS-TRAYVON MARTIN It wasn't supposed to take Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin five years to write a book about the death of their son, Trayvon Martin. But their grief has made finding the words unbearable until now. Martin's parents collaborated to write "Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin." The book recounts the journey of two grieving parents, thrust into the spotlight by tragedy, and on some days, still as close to their loss as the day he died. By Errin Haines Whack. SENT: 600 words on Feb. 4. Photos. BLACK HISTORY MONTH-THINGS TO KNOW A collection of facts about Black History Month. By Jesse J. Holland. SENT: 790 words, photo. Moved Feb. 1. FILM-I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO NEW YORK — One of the surest ways to see the power and relevance of James Baldwin's words today would be to look at some of the signs of recent protesters. "If I love you I must make you conscious of things you do not see," read one. "The only way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain," read another. Or you could see Raoul Peck's urgent and clarion documentary "I Am Not Your Negro." It resurrects Baldwin's words — his eloquent poetry of injustice — with the same fire with which they were blazed. Peck's film, which is nominated for best documentary at the Academy Awards, bears no talking heads. There's no analysis of Baldwin's influence in literature or interpretation of his politics. But there is his voice: clear, direct and piercingly prescient. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. SENT: 850 words, photos. Moved Feb. 1. The AP

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