Week In Review

ASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: A detail of a nearly 150-year-old stained-glass window depicts Christ speaking to a Samaritan woman, in the now-closed St. Mark’s Episcopal church, Monday, May 1, 2023, in Warren, R.I. The nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window in Rhode Island that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes…

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By Matt Brown and Jocelyn NoveckASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sits on the stand as Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee steps away for a break during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP) Fulton County District Attorney…

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Refusing to accept poverty as the fourth leading cause of death in America and declaring their votes are demands for living wages, voting rights and other policies to save lives and democracy itself, the Poor People’s Campaign announced last Monday that it plans a major effort to mobilize 15 million poor and…

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W.E.B. Du Bois (l) and Ida B. Wells-BarnettBy Addison N. Scurlock, circa 1911Both photos: Wikipedia: public domain WWW.NAACP.ORGThe organization’s foundersIn 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, Illinois. Eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, but the Springfield riot was the final tipping point that led to the…

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By Carla K. JohnsonASSOCIATED PRESS The effect of police violence on Black Americans is tracked in two new studies, with one tying police-involved deaths to sleep disturbances and the other finding a racial gap in injuries involving police use of Tasers. The health effects of police violence on Black people “need to be documented as…

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By Andrew DeMillo ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to reconsider its decision that would prevent private groups from suing under a key section of the Voting Rights Act, prompting a potential fight before the U.S. Supreme Court over a ruling that civil rights groups say erodes the…

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By Wyatte Grantham-PhilipsASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Target says it will stop selling a product dedicated to Civil Rights icons after a now-viral TikTok spotlighted some significant errors. In a video posted earlier this week, Las Vegas high school teacher Tierra Espy displayed how three Civil Rights icons — Carter G. Woodson, W.E.B. DuBois, and…

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By Colleen SlevinASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The four Black girls lay face down in a parking lot, crying “no” and “mommy” as a police officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their wrists. The youngest wore a pink tiara as she held onto her teenage cousin’s hand….

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By Margie Mason and Robin McDowellASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Former Angola prisoner, Curtis Davis, talks about his time at the Louisiana State Penitentiary during a 2021 interview near a former antebellum slave plantation near Angola, La. “Slavery has not been abolished,” said Davis, who spent more than 25 years at the penitentiary and is now…

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The federal Inflation Reduction Act includes $7 billion for projects big and small. ABOVE PHOTO: Doris Brown stands outside her solar-powered home in Houston. A hefty infusion of federal dollars under the Inflation Reduction Act could lead to more solar-powered homes in lower-income areas, providing relief to households that pay a disproportionate amount of their…

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