Author: Carma Henry

     Grassroots efforts like the We Count Oregon campaign helped connect with hard-to-count communities across the state. Hard-to-count the state. Hard-to-count populations include Black and other people of color, people in rural communities, low-income communities, and immigrants. Organizers across Oregon and other states shifted during the pandemic in outreach to traditionally overlooked communities to ensure a more accurate count. 

     The Minnesota statute notes that second-degree manslaughter, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison or possibly a $20,000 fine, applies when a person causes someone’s death by culpable negligence and creates an unreasonable risk and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm.

The clock is ticking for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as the panel prepares to render a decision on the fate of Bill Cosby.

     First, the Supreme Court’s new conservative majority issued a ruling that curtailed the impact of Miller v. Alabama, the court’s 2012 decision restricting life without parole for teenagers. Then, Evan Miller, the man whose name became synonymous with more than a thousand juvenile lifers having a chance to go home, was himself resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

       According to the CDC, one shot is not enough to protect one’s immune system which is why a second dose is recommended.

     I not only met several of his bloodline relatives, I was allowed to videotape several of my interviews of people who actually knew Rubin Stacy. People who knew him as an honest, hardworking family man. People who were heartbroken that Rubin has been depicted as a wandering, desperate vagrant for decades.

      Meet Marcia Smith, a graduate of Howard University and the founder of a very successful fashion line called HGC Apparel that she launched in 2006. She describes herself as a self-proclaimed 90s kid who is passionate about the uplifting and expansion of the Black community.

The T.J. Reddick Bar Association and Kaplan have developed a partnership to increase the number of Black attorneys by creating a scholarship for Black law students. This new scholarship, in the form of bar preparatory courses, will be awarded to eligible rising 2Ls and 3Ls who are members of the Black Law Students Association in South Florida, to help alleviate the financial burdens that Black law students experience while preparing for the bar exam.

Coronavirus Report: May 3, 2021

CVS and Walgreens, authorized by the federal government to vaccinate people against the coronavirus, constitute most wasted vaccine doses, according to a new report.