Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Tamir Rice  (AP Photo) By Mark Gillispie Associated Press CLEVELAND — On Monday, the City of Cleveland reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center. An order filed…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  We stand with Flint! The SUN along with the PA Democratic Black Caucus donated 50 cases of water to Enon’s Heart For Flint Michigan Drive last weekend. Read the article below for latest news in the Flint water crisis in Michigan. By Mike Householder and Ed White ASSOCIATED PRESS FLINT, Mich.– The Flint…

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Associated Press On Jackie Robinson Day, on April. 15, Philadelphia acknowledged its racist treatment of the baseball pioneer when he played in the city nearly 70 years ago. The City Council highlighted an official apology during a ceremony Friday honoring the first black Major League player. It issued the apology in a resolution last month….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A woman holds a sign supporting Harriet Tubman for the $20 bill last year in 2015, during a town hall meeting at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y.   Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced on Wednesday the decision to make Tubman the new face of the $20 bill and…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Will Smith By Janet McConnaughey ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith was killed on April 10, in a case of road-rage, by a Humvee-driving man who rear-ended his Mercedes and then shot him in the back and side, according to a police warrant read in court. Cardell…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  The 45th annual LGBT Pride parade in 2015 drew an estimated two million spectators buoyed by the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling on same sex marriage. NY Governor Andrew Cuomo waves the gay pride flag in the parade.  (Photo: a katz: shutterstock) associated press Legislation has been proposed in states across the country to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Amtrak investigators inspect the deadly train crash in Chester, Pa., Sunday, April 3 2016. The Amtrak train struck a piece of construction equipment just south of Philadelphia causing a derailment.   (Michael Bryant/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP) By Michael R. Sisak Associated Press CHESTER, Pa. — The engineer of an Amtrak passenger train applied…

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WASHINGTON – The Democratic National Committee today released updated statistics on the diversity of its hiring and contracting, part of the DNC’s commitment to ensuring that its staff reflects the great variety of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences that make up our party and our country. The new statistics show that the party continues to improve…

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“This is not a joke to women,” Whoopi has said of her new medicinal company, Whoopi & Maya. By Desire Thompson news one Comedian Whoopi Goldberg is looking to switch up the narrative and respectability politics surrounding the marijuana business with a line of products geared towards those who suffer from menstrual cramps. According to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Courtesy of KATC3 By Judd Legum think progress.org A New Orleans man could spend the rest of his life in jail after allegedly shoving “$31 worth of candy bars into his pockets at a Dollar General store.” The man, 34-year-old Jacobia Grimes, is being charged by prosecutors under the state’s “habitual-offender law.” Grimes has…

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