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(Photos: InmateAid\Muslimco) Baskerville, VA — With the end of Ramadan fast approaching, Dwayne Law, Jr.—a Muslim man incarcerated at a state prison in Baskerville, VA—filed an emergency complaint on Monday asking a federal court to force the facilit...
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Photos: Twitter\YouTube WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union released a new research report today on Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's 287(g) program, which delegates federal immigration enforcement authority to local and state law e...
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(Photos: Change.org\Screenshot\YouTube) WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the following statement on President Biden’s decision to issue clemency and pardons for 78 individuals, including former Secret Service agent:“Pr...
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(Photos: YouTube\Screenshot) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Caren Short, senior supervising attorney for Voting Rights with the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy director and senior counsel with Fair Elections Center, released the f...
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(Photos: Innocence Project) The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals just stayed the execution of Melissa Lucio — this means Melissa will no longer face execution on April 27.Melissa, who has spent the last 14 years on death row for a crime that never occ...
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(Photos: Twitter\YouTube) New York, NY (Monday, April 25, 2022) – In response to Rev. Al Sharpton’s demand for transparency and justice, the Grand Rapids Police Department has released the name of the officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya during a...
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By Jess Washington & Growing up we all had an idea of the type of life we wanted to live, but perhaps did not know how we would obtain the means to live that life. Historically, most Black American families did not have the means to focus on inv...
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(Photos: YouTube\Twitter) MONTGOMERY, Ala. – While several Southern states have respectfully moved away from observing Confederate Memorial Day, Alabama and Mississippi will continue the tradition today. On Tuesday, April 26, Florida will also celebr...
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(Photos: Dr. Anthony Andrews Jr.) South Jamaica, Queens---District Council 37 (DC37), the city’s largest public employee union, has officially endorsed Dr. Anthony D. Andrews Jr.’s candidacy for State Assembly District 32, Queens. The union, which re...
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(Photos: Grand Rapids Police\Twitter) It’s been more than two weeks since a Grand Rapids Police Department officer pinned Patrick Lyoya to the ground and shot him in the head at point-blank range. The GRPD and the city have promised transparency and...
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(Photos: Sarah Marshall\Life of The Law\YouTube\Twitter) Thirty-five years ago, the Supreme Court decision in McCleskey v. Kemp accepted statistical evidence showing that Georgia defendants were more than four times as likely to be sentenced to death...
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(Photos: Twitter\Screenshot\Color of Change\Grand Rapids Police) On April 4, Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head by a Grand Rapids, Michigan police officer, during a traffic stop.In response to community demands for transparency and ac...
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& & Vicki Meek, “Am I Pretty Yet?”, 2022. Gicleé prints hand painted w embellished frames & The Talley Dunn Gallery just presented a solo exhibition of renowned and nationally recognized artist Vicki Meek. The artist’s inau...
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(Photos: Innocence Project) We have just five days until the State of Texas plans to execute Melissa Lucio for a crime that never occurred. As of now, Melissa’s execution is still scheduled for this Wednesday, April 27 — and that means we’re running...
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(Photos: BHW Law\YouTube\ICE) LOS ANGELES, CA – Last 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 Appeals for th...
