Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Funeral programs for victims of violence in Chicago that the Rev. Marshall Hatch has presided over are shown at the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. Hatch rejects the African-American tradition to regard these funerals as festive “homegoings,” marking the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the HealthCare.gov 2017 website home page on display, in Washington. Health insurance experts say the decision to buy 2017 coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges shouldn’t boil down to a gamble over the survival of the law, which requires most people to have insurance….

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ABOVE PHOTO: NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and five others’ mugshots.  (Photo capture: Twitter/NAACP) By Kim Chandler Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala.  — The national president of the NAACP and five others were arrested after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Javier Benavidez, executive director of the advocacy group Southwest Organizing Project, speaks at a press conference in Albuquerque, Monday, June 6, 2016. Benavidez is pointing to images of an Albuquerque anti-Donald Trump protest last month that he says showed authorities overreacted against demonstrators. Albuquerque police are continuing to search for suspects linked to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This is a Mississippi Department of Public Safety provided undated state driver’s license photograph of Andrew McClinton, of Leland, Miss., who was arrested by the Greenville Police Department, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 in Greenville , Miss., in connection with the Nov. 1, 2016 fire at Greenville’s Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. McClinton, 45, has…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Josie Dunn (insert) By Anne Stych Chicago Business Journal “Josie the Riveter,” an African-American woman who helped integrate Boeing’s Seattle defense plants during World War II, has died at age 98. After President Franklin Roosevelt ordered federal contractors to end discrimination, a New Deal program led Josie Ella Dunn to Seattle in 1943…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Legendary Photographer Howard Bingham is honored at the 2008 “An Artful Evening At CAAM” (California Afro American Museum) Gala for his lifetime achivements on Saturday October 18, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA  (AP Photo/Earl Gibson III) By John Rogers Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Howard Bingham, longtime personal photographer, confidant and perhaps the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  President Barack Obama (AP photo) By Kevin Freking Associated Press HONOLULU — President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any president, the White House said Monday. Obama has been granting commutations…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Firefighters look at the debris after the trailer has been towed away from the crime scene in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, the day after a truck ran into a crowded Christmas market and killed several people. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) By Kirsten Grieshaber and Frank Jordans Associated Press BERLIN — German authorities…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A overview of the Reigners Bible Church International that collapsed in the city of Uyo, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. The roof collapsed Saturday as some hundreds gathered for the consecration of founder Akan Weeks as its bishop. (AP Photo/Chukwuemeka Nwaneri) By Hilary Uguru and Michelle Faul ASSOCIATED PRESS WARRI, Nigeria — Mortuaries…

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