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A new union is born in the South
By Kerry Taylor Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — Within minutes of the formation of the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) earlier this
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A record-setting number of women will serve in state legislatures in 2023
By Jennifer Shutt Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — A record number of women will soon serve in state legislatures, breaking the previous cap of female lawmakers
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By Ariana Figueroa Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — The FBI has officially announced that a single minor youth is the main suspect in most racially motivated bomb threats to dozens of Historically ... Karen Bass elected first Black female mayor of Los Angeles
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — When Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) announced her candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles last year, she knew the race wouldn’t be easy. White teacher fired after telling students his race was ‘superior’
(Defender News Service) — A teacher in the Pflugerville Independent School District which is located in Austin, Texas, is no longer employed by the district after a video surfaced of ... Young Black and Latino voters seen as key in turning back midterm ‘red wave’
By Ariana Figueroa Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Young Black and Latino voters were critical in holding off the Republican “red wave” in several battleground states for U.S. Senate seats and in ... Nonprofits clean up ‘dirty little secret’ of oil and gas industry: abandoned wells
By Terry Jones Contributing Writer (Special from Floodlight via lailluminator.com) — Curtis Shuck stumbled upon what he calls one of the oil and gas industry’s “dirty little secrets” while visiting Montana for ... Midterms offer glimpse of ‘new American majority’
By Peter Schurmann Contributing Writer (Ethnic News Media) — On election night this past Tuesday, Ruwa Romman became Georgia’s first-ever Muslim woman elected to the state legislature and the state’s first-ever ... Report: Decline in teachers with traditional education degrees linked to growth in charter schools
By Greg Childress Contributing Writer (Special from NC Policy Watch via lailluminator.com) — As charter schools proliferate across America, there has been a corresponding decline in the number of new teachers earning ... City’s first Gordon Plaza buyout offer roughly half the price residents initially proposed for relocation
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens As part of its ongoing effort to relocate the residents of Gordon Plaza — a government-backed development built on a toxic EPA-designated Superfund site — the ...
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