Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Visitors at the Johnstown National Flood Memorial in St. Michael, Pa. spend time checking out the park as the air quality is poor due to the Canadian wild fires on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP) By Corey Williams And Mike Householder ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires…

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: New York City Council candidate Yusef Salaam smiles during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in New York. Salaam is one of three candidates in a competitive June 27 Democratic primary. With early voting already begun, he faces two seasoned political veterans: New York Assembly members Al Taylor, 65,…

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: Legal Defense Fund President and CEO Janai Nelson, flanked by other Legal Defense Fund staffers and members of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard, speaks to the press outside the U.S. Supreme Court after justices heard oral arguments on two cases on whether colleges and universities can continue to consider race as a…

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division speaks about a Department of Justice report that found the Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination during a news conference, Friday, June 16, 2023, in Minneapolis. The two-year probe found that Minneapolis officers used excessive…

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: Samantha Richards looks over her Medicaid papers, Friday, June 9, 2023, in Bloomington, Ind. Richards has been on Medicaid her whole life and currently works two part-time jobs as a custodian. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) By David A. Lieb and Andrew DeMillo ASSOCIATED PRESS More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid…

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell stands in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York during a news conference about New Year’s Eve security, Dec. 30, 2022. On Friday, April 14, 2023, and Saturday, April 15, Black police chiefs, commissioners, sheriffs and commanders from across the country are set to…

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: Hank Sanders discusses the 1960s civil rights movement on Sept. 20, 2022, in Selma, Ala. The Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional maps is a surprise victory for Black and Latino voters across the country who say legislatures in a number of Republican-controlled states have drawn districts in a way…

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader and widow of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers, left, greets political activist and writer James Meredith at The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute Courage and Justice Gala, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, Friday, June 9, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V….

Read More

ABOVE PHOTO: This Jan. 14, 2023, photo released by attorney Anthony D. Thomas, shows Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four from Ocala, Fla. (Anthony D. Thomas via AP)  By Freida Frisaro ASSOCIATED PRESS  OCALA, Fla. — A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff…

Read More

The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today announced Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) grants to four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that were disrupted by bomb threats last year: Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas was awarded $191,962; Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware was awarded $217,000; Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina…

Read More