Lane expects to serve two years of a 3-year sentence based on a plea agreement announced by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
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“The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) applauds the Senate confirmation of Sandra Thompson as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which supervises the GSE-giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and other mortgage market entities. Thompson, who had been the supervision chief at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has been the acting FHFA director for nearly a year.
“When he slapped Chris, he slapped all of us,” Rose claimed, adding, “he really slapped me.”
Top recruit Morgan Price has committed to Fisk for its inaugural intercollegiate women’s gymnastics season. The 16-year-old gymnast had previously committed to the University of Arkansas, where her sister finished her first year on the team.
The HistoryMakers is pleased to announce that our 2022-2023 Digital Archive Student Ambassadors have been selected from a competitive pool of applicants. There are four chosen from four colleges and universities, three of which (Howard University, Spelman College, and Wellesley College) also have a 2022-2023 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellow.
On the first day of May in 1865, just weeks after the end of the Civil War, a solemn procession of 10,000 mourners—mostly freed slaves but with a smattering of White missionaries—filed past a Charleston, South Carolina racetrack that had been converted into a graveyard.
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.
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.
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.
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.