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 …..
2015/05/01 – Fifty years ago, college students Charles Cobb and Judy Richardson marched to outlaw discrimination during one of the most turbulent times in the nation’s history. “Mostly when people think of the Southern civil rights movement, they think of mass …..
