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11-04-2024 3:57 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Monique Gant (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Monthly rent has outpaced income across the U.S., and forced many to make tough decisions between everyday necessities and a home. In turn, a record number of people are becoming homeless and evictions filings have ratcheted up as pandemic-era eviction moratoriums and federal assistance ends.
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Arian Simone of the Fearless Fund (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Foundations and major donors are mobilizing to respond to court cases like the Supreme Court’s June decision ending affirmative action at universities. Some nonprofits are financially supporting lawsuits targeting corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs. That's while others are ready to offer legal assistance to nonprofits being sued.
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Brittany Gilliam (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Lawyer David Lane confirmed the settlement involving a confrontation with police, who mistakenly believed the car Gilliam was driving was stolen. The scene of the family lying facedown in handcuffs caused outrage following racial injustice protests nationwide.
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President Barack Obama's Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (Photo courtesy of NNPA)
And on January 29, the anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the Biden-Harris Administration unveiled comprehensive measures to tackle persistent gender and racial wage gaps in the United States.
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Crystal Sparrow (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)
The university says it is trying to begin rectifying past wrongs. But some community members feel excluded from the process, illustrating the challenges that institutions face when it comes to addressing institutional racism.
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President Joe Biden is looking for an easy victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary. Saturday's contest officially kicks off his party’s nominating process and winning the primary would validate the new election lineup. Biden pushed for the change to better empower Black voters who helped revive his 2020 campaign. The president is overwhelmingly favored against Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and self-help author Marianne Williamson. The Republicans primary is Feb. 24. Democrats in New Hampshire held a primary Jan. 23 but it wasn’t sanctioned by the national Democratic Party. Still, Biden won the state via write-in.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a Pentagon press briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
The initial strikes by manned and unmanned aircraft were hitting command and control headquarters, ammunition storage and other facilities.
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An 1860 portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
In the blur of breaking news, one of President Joe Biden’s first speeches of the 2024 campaign was given in South Carolina and has already been mostly forgotten in the ongoing coverage of the state’s democratic primary on Feb. 3, 2024. The site of the speech on Jan. 8, 2024, was Charleston, South Carolina’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, where, on a summer evening in 2015, an avowed white supremacist murdered nine Black worshipers, including Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor and a state representative.
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Attorney Brooke Girley (Photo courtesy of NNPA)
In addition to suggesting suspension, Judge Lisa Herndon, presiding over the Florida Bar’s disciplinary case against the Girleys, also ordered the duo to attend a professionalism workshop.
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In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, addresses a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)
The only descendants who could expect to see money from the state could be people whose families were stripped of property.
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