Selwyn Jones is the co-founder of the Justice 929 Organization, the charity focused on promoting civil rights and creating change in honor of his nephew George Floyd. On a mission to make communities a better place for all, he has traveled the country over the last 5 years speaking with the families of other victims of police violence and helping with their struggles. Selwyn is channeling his grief into activism through his work with Justice 929.
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Law concept: habeas corpus. Under United States law, a writ of habeas corpus is a command from a court to the custodian of a particular individual (usually the state or federal prison system) to release that individual. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus is a common mechanism by which a criminal case can be reviewed even after the appellate process has run its course.
Mississippi county officials have settled a lawsuit filed by Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, two Black men who were tortured and abused by sheriff’s deputies in 2023.
Democrats argue the Republican strategy—cutting Medicaid and destabilizing Social Security—amounts to an all-out war on working-class Americans. The CBO report estimates that the GOP’s Medicaid policy shifts would reduce the federal deficit by as much as $710 billion over the next decade, but at a devastating cost: loss of care, rising out-of-pocket expenses, and widening inequities in health access. “Crafting health care policy is not an academic exercise; for tens of thousands of Americans, it’s a matter of life or death,” Ducas noted
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is telling fellow House Democrats she plans to run for her party’s Oversight Committee slot, plowing ahead with a bid after wavering last week, according to a text to lawmakers obtained by POLITICO.
A Supreme Court win over the discriminatory redistricting in Alabama
The xAI supercomputer under construction in Memphis has blown into a full scale civic war of words after it was discovered that the company had violated a temporary permit from the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) to install 15 portable methane gas turbines to power the site, but had actually put in 35 of the machines without permission.
The Trump administration sent Hayden an email informing her that her position will be terminated effective immediately following DEI concerns.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, seeks to halt the so-called “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) directive, which the attorneys general argue violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Appropriations Clause, and the constitutional separation of powers.