August 2020 Archive
By Nicholas Chrastil The Lens A federal judge on Wednesday, August 5 ruled that day-to-day control of the New Orleans jail should be handed back to Sheriff Marlin Gusman. The ruling comes ... La.’s Chief Justice calls life sentence for hedge clippers cruel
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson’s recent dissent in a case where a man received a life sentence for allegedly stealing hedge clippers from a ... What seniors can expect as their new normal in a post-vaccine world
By Bruce Horovitz Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — Imagine this scenario, perhaps a year or two in the future: An effective COVID-19 vaccine is routinely available and the world is moving ... New DNA study offers insight into the horrific story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
(Special from CNN via Defender News Service) — A groundbreaking study of the genetics of Black Americans highlighted lesser known aspects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. NAACP sues US Education Secretary
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The coronavirus pandemic has focused the nation’s attention on the essential role public schools play in families and communities’ lives. Why is fair housing still a distant journey for Black America?
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer Public pressure to restore a key HUD rule has united civil rights, public and private sector stakeholders in a swelling and nearly daily drumbeat of concern calling ... Report: Racial discrimination linked to suicide
(Defender News Service) — In this age of racial reckoning, new research findings indicate that racial discrimination is so painful that it is linked to the ability to die by ... Report: Police committed 125 human rights violations during Floyd protests
(Defender News Service) — Police in the U.S. committed 125 human rights violations in response to George Floyd protests, according to a new report from Amnesty International. We don’t need Trump’s thugs in Chicago
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist “Hitler had his Brown shirts and Mussolini had his Black shirts, now Donald Trump has his camouflage shirts.” Thus began a statement signed by 15 distinguished interdenominational ... One more reason
By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist By the time you read this, it will no longer be breaking news that one of the cancers which has plagued Supreme Court Justice, Ruth ...
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