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04-23-2024 7:09 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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On the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says a dramatic increase in legislative measures are making it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote. Sunday's events mark law enforcement's March 7, 1965, attack against demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Garland told parishioners at a church service that decisions by the Supreme Court and other courts have weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was passed in the wake of Bloody Sunday
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The Fort Street Bridge Park (Paul Draus, CC BY)
Among the marchers’ demands: jobs for laid-off workers, a seven-hour workday without a pay reduction, two 15-minute rest periods a day, an end to discrimination against Black workers and the right to organize. This crowd of several thousand marched up the road on one of the coldest days of winter. They were greeted at the Dearborn border with clouds of tear gas, jets of cold water and a shower of bullets.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Jeffries spoke in depth with The Associated Press about his faith, which is rooted in the Black social gospel, inspired by civil rights leaders and centered at Brooklyn’s Cornerstone Baptist Church. Nancy Pelosi says Jeffries is a man of faith who believes there is a spark of divinity in everyone.
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Rev. Amos Brown (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
An apology would be the first reparations recommendation to be realized of more than 100 proposals suggested by a city reparations committee. The panel also recommended every eligible Black adult receive $5 million in cash, but that and other heftier proposals have gone nowhere.
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He appeared to compare his legal plight to the historic legacy of prejudice in the U.S. legal system during a speech Friday night at the Black Conservative Foundation’s gala a day before the South Carolina primary. Trump argues he is the victim of political persecution, even though there is no evidence President Joe Biden or White House officials influenced the filing of 91 felony charges against him.
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Darryl George and his mother Darresha (Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Darryl George wears his hair in tied and twisted locs on top of his head, and his attorney says his hairstyle is protected by the CROWN Act. State District Judge Chap Cain III on Thursday ruled in favor of the Barbers Hill school district, which argued its policy doesn’t violate the law.
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Darryl George, an 18-year-old high school junior (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi, File)
For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. A trial this week is set to determine whether school administrators can continue punishing a Black teenager for refusing to cut his hair.
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A sticker saying "Keep Sapelo Geechee" (AP Photo/Ross Bynum, File)
Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island sat in court Tuesday as an attorney for McIntosh County's government argued that their lawsuit must be thrown out because of technical errors that clash with a 2020 change to Georgia's state constitution. The residents' lawyers want a chance to fix those problems.
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The Department of Education said it would email those who will receive the debt cancellation today, another step in the administration’s ongoing efforts to address the nation’s staggering $1.77 trillion student debt crisis.
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Nationally, 73 percent of whites own homes compared to 44 percent of Blacks, representing a 29-percentage-point disparity. However, Greater Cincinnati reportedly experiences an even wider gap, with only 33 percent of Black residents owning homes, creating a 40-percentage-point difference.
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