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11-08-2024 3:09 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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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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The total raised just through one online fundraiser surpassed $145,000, well in excess of the estimated $75,000 value of the bronze statue that was cut from its base at a park in Wichita, Kansas. Bob Lutz, the executive director of the Little League nonprofit that commissioned the sculpture, said the money raised can enhance some of its programming and facilities.
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In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and are sometimes paid pennies an hour or nothing at all.
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New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam says he was pulled over by city police without being given an explanation. City Council members will vote Tuesday to override Mayor Eric Adams' veto of a police transparency measure. The officer gave no reason for the stop and withdrew after Salaam, one the exonerated group of men known as the Central Park Five identified himself as a council member. Police later said Salaam was stopped for driving with dark tints
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Recent research conducted by Scientific American Online supported fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. The research found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people.
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Nordstrom announced that the scholarship will continue ICON360’s mission to provide financial assistance to Black designers and fashion programs at HBCUs to help advance marginalized talent through education.
School is in session again!
At historically Black colleges and universities, there’s a new scholarship available for students, thanks to Harlem Fashion Row (HFR) partnering with Nordstrom. The retailer announced that the scholarship will continue ICON360’s mission to provide financial assistance to Black designers and fashion programs at HBCUs to help advance marginalized talent through education.
“As the founder and CEO of Harlem’s Fashion Row, I know firsthand the barriers in our industry. ICON360 is excited to partner with Nordstrom to provide more pathways for the next generation of Black designers and HBCU fashion students,” Brandice Daniel, founder and CEO of Harlem’s Fashion Row and ICON360, said.
HFR launched in 2007 and aimed to give designers of color recognition because they were consistently getting overlooked. Now, HFR is considered a leading agency that builds connections between brands and designers of color in the fashion world. Their partnership with Nordstrom to provide scholarships is just one of their many endeavors.
“Nordstrom set ambitious marketplace diversity and equity commitments. To reach these goals, we need to invest in improved pathways for fashion, design and retail talent,” said Colleen Mitchell, senior director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at Nordstrom.
We’re excited to witness the talent that comes out of this partnership!
James Cromitie, convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting was ordered freed from prison by a judge who criticized the FBI for relying on an “unsavory” confidential informant in an agency-invented conspiracy to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard planes
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School officials in Las Vegas have released police reports and body camera footage under court order of a campus officer kneeling on a Black student last year. Cellphone footage showed the Las Vegas teen recording officers detaining another student when one of the officers pulled the teen to the ground and kneeled on him. The officer said in a written report also released Thursday that he was investigating a report of a gun near the school. No weapon was found
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