Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Shanesha Taylor  (Photo: Courtesy of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office)   By Annie-Rose Strasser Thinkprogress.com Shanesha Taylor, a woman from Scottsdale, Arizona, is homeless. So when she got asked to come in for a job interview last Thursday, she must have been excited by the prospect. But when you’re homeless, there isn’t always…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Former Mayor and current DC City Council member Marion Barry, left, listens as Mayor Vincent Gray answers a reporter’s question during a media availability to announce Barry’s endorsement of Gray’s bid for re-election, last month in Washington.  Councilmember Bowser defeated Mayor Vincent Gray in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)   By …

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Ebony Wilkerson listens during a bond hearing in Daytona Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Wilkerson, 32, the pregnant South Carolina woman charged with attempted murder after she drove her car into the ocean with her three children inside, will be allowed to receive in-hospital psychiatric care until a doctor says she’s fit…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter in January, right, speaks while College Athletes Players Association President Ramogi Huma listens during a news conference in Chicago. In a Wednesday, March 26, 2014, landmark ruling, a federal agency has given football players at Northwestern University the green light to unionize. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File) By Michael Tarm…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  E. Steven Collins   By Monica Peters for PABJ Prism On Sunday, March 16, 2014, Philadelphia personal injury attorney Dean Weitzman of Silvers, Langsam & Weitzman, P.C., better known as MyPhillyLawyer, and attorney Tom Kline of  Kline & Specter P.C., announced they would file a lawsuit on behalf of the family and estate…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Norm Lewis  (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)   By Mark Kennedy ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Norm Lewis has been tapped to be Broadway’s next Phantom in the megahit “The Phantom of the Opera,” a move that makes him the first African-American to slip behind the famous mask. Producers said Thursday the Tony Award nominee,…

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By Trenton Daniel ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Aid workers in Haiti have begun distributing food to help some of the Caribbean nation’s poorest people cope with a severe drought, an official with a United Nations agency said Thursday. The World Food Program on Wednesday began handing out cereal, vegetable oil and iodized salt to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Marchers hold up their signs as they walk to the Florida Capitol Monday, March 10, 2014, for a rally in Tallahassee, Fla. Participants were rallying against the state’s “Stand Your Ground” laws.  (AP Photo/Phil Sears)    By Kareem Copeland Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Rev. Al Sharpton led hundreds of people on…

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Associated Press WASHINGTON — Michael Dunn’s conviction of attempted murder – but not actual murder – in the shooting death of black teenager Jordan Davis prompted the creation of hashtag #dangerousblackkids on Twitter. Users posted photos of black babies and toddlers, spoofing the fear that Dunn testified he felt before opening fire on a car…

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By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.9 trillion budget Tuesday that would funnel money into road building, education and other economy-bolstering programs, handing Democrats a playbook for their election-year themes of creating jobs and narrowing the income gap between rich and poor. The blueprint for fiscal 2015, which…

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