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(Photos: Wikimedia Commons\Twitter) Tuesday, President Joseph Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, legislation which finally declares lynching a federal hate crime. The legislation is named in honor of Emmett Till, a young Black...
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(Photos: Twitter) President Joe Biden recently announced plans to "welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russia's aggression" while providing $1 billion in humanitarian funding to Ukraine. This is rightly raising eyebrows in some corne...
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Photo by Anthony Roland. Dallas Sidekicks present a check to Andrew and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas Every year, the Sidekicks goes behind the scenes to create amazing game day experiences for special families. This year, the Dallas Side...
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(Photos: YouTube\Twitter) Oakland, CA – Black Lives Matter has released a statement blasting President Joe Biden’s budget, which increases funding for policing to roughly $32 billion. The budget follows increases in police funding across the countr...
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(Photos: Twitter\Brennan Center\DOJ) The Brennan Center polled nearly 600 local election officials about their recent experiences administering elections — some of their responses were nothing short of disturbing. Many were targeted by racist and s...
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(Photos: YouTube\Twitter) The arc of coverage of 2020 congressional redistricting went from speculation that Republicans would end up with a massive advantage—because they controlled significantly more state legislatures—to surprise that Democrats m...
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(Photos: Twitter\YouTube) In the following PeaceVoice article, political science professor Dr. Wim Laven compares the lies and deceit of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to one of America's most polarizing figures: former Wisconsin Senator Joseph...
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By Bianca B. King This Women’s History Month, we look to those women that are blazing trails right here in the DFW Metroplex. Exceptional leaders who are creating complex histories and legacies while enhancing our community. Meet Brittani Hite...
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By Jess Washington One of the pillars Dallas Weekly stands on is the power of legacy and what that means to make way for a better future. As one of the oldest black news publications in Dallas, it’s fortuitous that for Women’s History Month, we...
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(Photos: Innocence Project\Lucio Team) On Tuesday, the Innocence Project took a big next step in the effort to save Melissa Lucio by filing a clemency petition on her behalf.Melissa is scheduled for execution in Texas on April 27 for a crime that nev...
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(Photos: Wallin & Klarich\YouTube\ICE) LOS ANGELES, CA – This week, the Center for Immigration Policy, the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies, and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of A...
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(Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube\National Archives) In the follwoing piece, award-winning journalist Robert Koehler writes about legislation pending in Congress aimed at helping the families of Black World War II veterans recoup benefits that were...
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(Photos: YouTube\Twitter) The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against Galveston County, Texas, challenging the redistricting plan for its county governing body, known as the C...
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(Photos: Twitter) In the following Radio Free piece, writer Zoya Teirstein discusses climate change and the challenges facing Democrats in passing climate change legislation.Democrats will need a miracle if they want to keep their majorities in the S...
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(Photos: YouTube\EJI\Twitter) The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix and two individual taxpayer plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Corrections on February 15, seeking to stop the state of Arizona from us...
