Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Florida candidate for U.S. Senate Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., right, and his mother, former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek, chat as they attend services at Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) By Freida Frisaro ASSOCIATED PRESS  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave…

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ABOVE PHOTO: James Kolenich, attorney for Jason Kessler, speaks with the media after the jury gave a partial verdict in Sines v Kessler case Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021 at the Federal Courthouse in Charlottesville, Va. A jury ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $25 million in damages over the violence…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Betty Shabazz’s six daughters, including the mother of 12-year-old Malcolm Shabazz, pose for a photograph at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, Friday, June 6, 1997. The women, speaking at a news conference, thanked the world for its prayers offered for their mother who was burned Sunday in a fire allegedly started by…

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ABOVE PHOTO: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams speaks during a ceremony on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon) By Larry Neumeister ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — With Attorney General Merrick Garland looking on, Manhattan’s new U.S. attorney said Friday he’s establishing a civil rights…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy V. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, is being considered for a…

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By Paul Wiseman  ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — Inflation is starting to look like that unexpected — and unwanted — houseguest who just won’t leave. For months, many economists had sounded a reassuring message that a spike in consumer prices, something that had been missing in action in the U.S. for a generation, wouldn’t stay long….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski speaks during opening statements in the trial of Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan at the Glynn County Courthouse, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga. The three are charged with the February 2020 slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. (Octavio Jones/Pool Photo via AP)…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Reparations Labor Union founder Anita Belle talks about slavery reparations during an interview in Detroit. (AP Photo/Corey Williams, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS  DETROIT — The city of Detroit will put together a commission to consider some form of reparations for residents. More than 80% of residents who cast ballots in last Tuesday’s general election voted…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A neighborhood in Milwaukee that is one of many places in the country where a new method used by the U.S. Census Bureau to protect confidentiality in the 2020 census has made people and occupied homes vanish — at least on paper — when they actually exist in the real world. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)…

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WASHINGTON, DC — Nine out of 10 Black women murdered by men are killed by someone they know, most often with a gun, according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) study “When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2019 Homicide Data.” Each year the VPC releases this report in advance of Domestic Violence Awareness…

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