Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: A worker attaches a rope as they prepare to remove the statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson from its pedestal on July 1, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Shenandoah County, Virginia’s school board voted 5-1 early Friday, May 10, 2024, to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Black activists are seen picketing outside Rich’s department store protesting against segregated eating facilities at one of its lunch counters in Atlanta, Oct. 19, 1960. The activists who had taken seats inside the store were arrested. Following the publication of “An Appeal for Human Rights,” March 9, 1960, students at Atlanta’s historically Black…

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By Nqobile Ntshangase and Gerald ImrayASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Then African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela casts his vote April 27, 1994 near Durban, South Africa, in the country’s first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country’s pivotal first democratic elections in 1994 that announced the official…

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Leaders are organizing around an agenda to expand democracy to all people and end the crisis of death by poverty and low wealth, which kills 295,000 people each year. WASHINGTON -– Standing at a podium at the National Press Club, Bishop William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer for Repairers of the Breach and…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Police tape cordons off the scene of a crime in Levittown, Pa., Saturday, March 16, 2024. Police departments reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers in 2023 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began and since the 2020 police killing of George Floyd spurred nationwide protests and increased scrutiny of police,…

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ASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: A man carries a Free TikTok sign in front of the courthouse where the hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway April 15, 2024, in New York. The House has passed legislation Saturday, April 20, to ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake, sending it…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Dr. Rosie Ann Riley comforts Bul Mabil as he gets emotional speaking about his brother, Dau Mabil, during a press conference to ask for the public’s help in finding Dau at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson Miss., on Monday, April 1, 2024. As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Women carry water in Gahanga the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, April 4, 2024. The country commemorated the 30th anniversary of the genocide on April 7, 2024, which occurred when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbors, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving…

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ABOVE PHOTO: The Rev. Cecil Murray Sr., of the First African Methodist Episcopal, preaches to his congregation, Sunday, Dec. 20, 1998, in Los Angeles. Murray, an influential pastor and civil rights leader who gained international attention for his efforts to help Los Angeles recover from one of the country’s worst race riots, died Friday, April…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are displayed at a store in San Francisco on May 17, 2018. Anti-smoking groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been idling at the White House for months. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)…

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