Category : Lifestyle

Inside The World Of Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Woman In Washington | RealClearPolitics

realclearpolitics.com - Brooke Rollins, the leader of a new think tank with at least a $20 million endowment and an equal amount of political capital among conservatives, is in the middle of negotiations. The talks arent...Tweeted by @jglthopeful ht...

UN to review US record in battling racial discrimination

straitstimes.com - The hearings will address police killings of black people and unequal access to education, housing and to a healthy environment. Read more at straitstimes.com.Tweeted by @straits_times https://twitter.com/straits_times/status/15576...

Kenyan police officers found guilty of murder of three including human rights lawyer

theguardian.com - Three police officers in Kenya have been found guilty of murdering three men, including human rights lawyer Willie Kimani, six years after their bodies were found in a river. Justice Jessie Lessit fo…Tweeted by @viggopoxm https://tw...

Why Are Mayors Inviting Trump’s Federal Agents Into Their Cities?

thenation.com - The Trump administration’s “anti-crime,” anti-cities agenda goes beyond sending DHS agents to Portland, and some mayors are fine with that.Tweeted by @janecoaston https://twitter.com/janecoaston/status/1557774986236002309

Biden defends about face on crime law he helped create

abcnews.go.com - Joe Biden's plan, released on Tuesday morning, calls for an end to mandatory minimum sentencing for crimes, private prisons, cash bail and the death penalty.Tweeted by @swlifedavis https://twitter.com/swlifedavis/status/1557820432048...

'Modern day slavery': Lawmakers, advocates react to Arizona prison labor investigation

azcentral.com - Prison reform advocates ask whether Arizona's \Tweeted by @azcentral https://twitter.com/azcentral/status/1557743676062834688

Opinion | The Arbery case is heinous, but his killers’ sentences are extreme

washingtonpost.com - I was relieved when the killers were convicted of murder. But justice does not require life sentences.Tweeted by @PostOpinions https://twitter.com/PostOpinions/status/1557856910396821505

Six months later: What have we learned from Jan. 6? Not enough to stop it from happening again

salon.com - A new phase of America's endless civil war was launched six months ago. We don't yet know how or when it will endTweeted by @2020WasntStolen https://twitter.com/2020WasntStolen/status/1557837800900362240

What Have We Learned from the Spies of Mississippi?

aclu.org - The documentary film "Spies of Mississippi," which aired on PBS on Monday, is a grim reminder of the depths that Mississippi authorities plumbed in their efforts to subvert the civil rights movement.…Tweeted by @VictoriaSStand1 https://twi...

DISPATCH, O.A.R. To Livestream Xfinity Center Co-Headline Show 8/20 via Veeps

ventsmagazine.com - DISPATCH and O.A.R. are currently in the middle of their North American Co-Headline Tour, and the baTweeted by @ventsmagazine https://twitter.com/ventsmagazine/status/1557823002854756354

Alabama poet laureate Ashley Jones awarded $50,000 grant from the Academy of American Poets

al.com - Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley Jones has been awarded $50,000 from the Academy of American Poets to support her public poetry projects.Tweeted by @MellonFdn https://twitter.com/MellonFdn/status/1557515139120877570

New NY Holocaust legislation bolsters education, looted art and reparations issues

israelnationalnews.com - Museums to be required to tell visitors what works may have been stolen by the Nazis from Jewish owners under new law.

Shining the light of truth on Alachua County’s painful history of lynching

gainesville.com - A new historic marker will remember and honor the four men known to be lynched in Gainesville between 1891 and 1942.Tweeted by @dimitriousgart3 https://twitter.com/dimitriousgart3/status/1557729127742193668

‘Prison destroys every human dignity’: Free Chol Soo Lee and the miscarriage of justice that united Asian-Americans

theguardian.com - Arrested in 1973 for a murder he did not commit, Chol Soo Lee became a rallying cause for Asian-Americans in the 1980s – a story too important to be buried in history, say the film’s directorsTweeted by @guardiang2 https://twitter.c...

UC-San Diego Allegedly Holding Racially Segregated Orientation Programs

legalinsurrection.com - "clear violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act"Tweeted by @NuLLnVoiD4prez https://twitter.com/NuLLnVoiD4prez/status/1557756258043793408