The Chicago City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to approve a historic $5.5 million reparations fund for torture victims of the notorious Chicago police Commander Jon Burge and his so-called midnight crew of rogue detectives. 2015/5/6-“This is another step, but an essential …..
2015/05/06 – The state is seeking a stay of a federal judge’s ruling ordering Mississippi to grant its only female death row inmate a new trial within 120 days or release her from custody. The state is seeking a stay of …..
2015/05/06 – The nearly two weeks of protest in Baltimore—which culminated last Friday when the city’s prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, charged the six police officers involved in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray—brought a spotlight to the intense troubles faced by the …..
Benjamin Crump is an attorney who represents the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice. “When there is no transparency, there is no trust” 2015/5/5-What happened to Freddie Gray to cause his death? This was the question that …..
2015/5/5-Geography, history, civics. At Manchester Academic Charter School in Pittsburgh, Dennis Henderson teaches all of these, and a few things more. “You don’t want to sound ghetto when you talk to people,” says eighth-grader Malajah Smith, quoting Henderson. “Because people …..
