2015/04/23 – It seemed as though police union leaders had gotten some PR training lately, and moved on from their strategy of pretending they’re the real victims in the awful spate of police killings involving unarmed black men. New York’s Pat Lynch has stopped shrieking that …..
2015/04/23 – Prosecutors will dismiss capital murder charges against Willie Jerome Manning, 46, for the deaths of two Starkville women in 1993 as Manning continues fighting his conviction in a separate case. Manning is currently on death row at Parchman for …..
2015/04/22 – It always happens—just when a fad arrives in Mississippi, the fad’s progenitors become less enamored of it. Take the so-called “third grade reading gate”—which requires students to pass a literacy test before moving to the next grade—now under way …..
2015/04/22-It’s been more than 20 years since passage of the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid time off for medical or family reasons without losing their jobs. Some workers’ …..
Why everyone should join the Fight for $15 protests, regardless of who they are or what they make. 2015/04/18-Chasten Florence was on his lunch break when he decided to join a protest outside a McDonald’s in New York City on …..