2015/05/06 – While the president’s new nonprofit group is a positive step, it still falls short of the radical initiatives needed to bring equal justice. President Barack Obama’s announcement Monday of the nonprofit group My Brother’s Keeper’s Alliance, during a speech at …..
The housing crisis reportedly moved whites out of integrated neighborhoods and moved more black and Latino families in 2015/5/6-The widespread home foreclosures that devastated families at the height of the Great Recession also exacerbated racial segregation in communities across the United States, …..
2015/05/05 – PASCAGOULA – On a rain-drenched day in April, students at Pascagoula’s Cherokee Elementary sweated out a computerized 50-question multiple choice test. Third-grader Lacey Peeler admitted she was a little nervous about the high stakes attached to the test. “Kind of, …..
2015/5/6-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday called on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a full-scale civil rights investigation into the “pattern and practices” of the city police department — a probe that would examine excessive force, discriminatory harassment, …..
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 …..