“On that first night,” Mother Fletcher recounted, “I went to bed in my family’s home in Greenwood, a com-munity that was rich, not only in terms of wealth, but in culture, community, and heritage. My family had a beautiful home. We had great neighbors, and I had friends to play with. I felt safe and had everything a child could ask for. I had a bright future ahead of me there in Greenwood, a place that could have given me the chance to truly make a good life in this country. But within a few horrible hours, all of that was gone….”
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Learning from the eviction moratorium crisis, the Biden administration got a jump on the federal student loan repayment pause. The Department of Education announced this final extension of the repayment pause would extend through January 31, 2022.
Stabenow, along with Reps. Gary Peters (D–Mich.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), and John Larson (D-Conn.) introduced the Revitalizing Downtowns Act. According to the International Downtown Association (IDA) the bill would establish a new federal tax credit to “support the conversion of obsolete and excess office spaces into residential or mixed-use properties.”
The would-be murder failed because the FBI had a confidential informant inside a Ku Klux Klan operation that planned the killing.
“We as a country have never had a national infrastructure or national policy preventing avoidable evictions,” American Rescue Plan Coordinator Gene Sperling responded in a White House briefing on Monday, August 2. “State and local governments must do more to help,” Sperling asserted.
The wife of Haiti’s assassinated president said she was found with a gunshot wound by a maid after the attack, and needed to use her dead husband’s tie as a tourniquet.
Recently, Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Martin Luther King III, and Arndrea Waters King, the civil rights leaders behind the March On For Voting Rights, hosted a press conference with Democratic members of the Texas legislature at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. The civil rights leaders were in Washington to urge members of Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation as states introduce laws that restrict access to the ballot box. The visit with Texas state legislatures today took place ahead of planned testimony on Thursday before the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee hearing.
Rapper Big Sean has been a fierce advocate for youth empowerment, and he’s pushing his efforts to inspire youngsters to follow their dreams forward. The music artist—whose real name is Sean Anderson—has invested in a new workforce and entrepreneurship program at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan.
The national lawmakers who are duly elected by tax-payers have apparently decided it’s more important to adjourn Congress for the summer and go on vacation than it is to work on behalf of their constituents who may be on the verge of homelessness as the federal eviction moratorium expires this weekend.
“The people of Texas are desperate and need it. The people of America are desperate and need it.”