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11-18-2024 6:42 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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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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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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(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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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