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Supreme Court Petition: Judge Who Faced Complaints of Racial Bias, Abuse, Sat on Disciplinary Review Panel That Cleared Him

June 1, 2022 Carma Henry 0

As reported exclusively in Your Black World in February, Judge Christopher Cooper – who was appointed by President Obama in 2014 – had stood accused of abusing litigants and of ethnic bias against Arinderjit Dhali, a respected Sikh civil rights attorney in Washington, D.C., who also is of Indian Heritage and was representing legal scholar and civil rights attorney Amos Jones in Jones’s racial discrimination and contract-violations lawsuit against Campbell University and The Catholic University of America. The earlier complaint was filed by the late Jeanette Pollard. The pair of complaints against Cooper offer a rare look into the world of judicial discipline, especially involving alleged ethnic and gender bias. […]

U.S. gun statistics are absolutely staggering

June 1, 2022 Carma Henry 0

There are more guns than people in the United States. A 2018 survey conducted by Small Arms Survey found that there were there were 120.5 firearms per each 100 U.S. residents. Worldwide, homicides in the U.S. account for 79 percent of all homicides globally. Additionally, suicides by gunfire outpaces homicides in the U.S. 24,292 deaths in 2020 were suicides, while 19,384 were homicides according to a report by the BBC. […]

How the Newest Federal Prison Became One of the Deadliest

June 1, 2022 Carma Henry 0

Officials claimed that opening Thomson would make federal prisons safer by relieving dangerous overcrowding. But an investigation by The Marshall Project and NPR found that the newest U.S. penitentiary has quickly become one of the deadliest, with five suspected homicides and two alleged suicides since 2019. […]

22 mass shootings. 374 dead. Here’s where the guns came from

June 1, 2022 Carma Henry 0

They are just the latest suspected U.S. mass shooters whose ability to obtain guns has raised concerns. In some cases shooters got guns legally under current firearms laws, or because of background check lapses or law enforcement’s failure to heed warnings of concerning behavior. […]

McGruder roots: Families trace lineages back to a single enslaved

June 1, 2022 Carma Henry 0

At 95-years old, she grew up in the same house as family members who’d survived slavery, including her great-grandmother, Rachel McGruder. Her great-grandfather, Charles McGruder, had also been enslaved. […]

Charlie Sifford Broke Golf’s Color Lines: His Son Fondly Recalls the Challenges and Triumphs During Centennial Celebration

June 1, 2022 Carma Henry 0

Sitting inside an office at PGA TOUR headquarters in Ponte Verde, Florida, and preparing to remember what would have been his father’s 100th birthday on June 2, Sifford recounted how much his dad loved golf. […]

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HistoryMakers Awards 2022-2023 Faculty Innovation in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship to Seven Outstanding Scholars

June 1, 2022 Carma Henry 0

Now in its third year, The HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship is designed to foster classroom innovation and teaching, and to diversity curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. Award recipients will receive a $7,500 award and the opportunity to demonstrate how faculty can creatively incorporate The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into a semester course and syllabus. […]

“I knew you were coming for me”

May 31, 2022 Carma Henry 0

“I knew you were coming for me” […]

Chicago Mayor Brings Message to Dallas

May 31, 2022 Carma Henry 0

Hosted by Dallas businessman Willis Johnson of JBJ Management, Lightfoot, who is an attorney serving her first term as the 56th mayor of the third largest city (by rank and population) in the country, touted a record that she said proves she deserves another term. […]

EPA Administrator, Michael S. Regan, Focused on Clean Air and Water for Communities of Color

May 31, 2022 Carma Henry 0

“The bipartisan infrastructure provides resources for our communities. There are matching grants and forgivable loans, which means more of our communities have an opportunity to compete for these grants,” said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan. “We are also making $50 million available for technical assistance to help our communities to become more competitive. I’ve written a letter to every governor in the country outlining the criteria by which we believe those resources should be spent.” […]