In May of 2024, the Senate Committee on Public Safety chaired by Majority Whip Sen. Randy Robertson (R-Cataula) held its sixth meeting regarding conditions at the beleaguered Fulton County Jail. The investigations were initiated in July of 2023 following the horrific death of Lashawn Thompson who in September of 2022 was found dead in a filthy jail cell laying in his own waste face down in a cell toilet after having been eaten alive by bed bugs.
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The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office four months after a deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey while responding to her call about a possible prowler outside the 36-year-old Black woman’s home.
President-elect Donald Trump has laid out some big changes for education in the US.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Mass incarceration remains a persistent, systemic injustice that erodes the soul of America. Our nation has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with nearly two million people locked in jails and prisons throughout the country.
That’s where the rich, poor and otherwise gathered for events. Gladiator fights. Contests between man and beasts. Executions. Even nautical battles when they flood the floor of the world’s largest amphitheater with water. This iconic monument, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, provides the canvas for this gripping mixture of history and fabrication. The sequel to 2001’s Oscar®-winning film Gladiator.
This year’s projections surpass last year’s by 1.7 million travelers, marking thee busiest Thanksgiving travel period in history.
A new report released by The Education Trust titled, “Improving Titles III & V of the Higher Education Act to Better Serve Students of Color and Students from Low-Income Backgrounds” examines how Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) receive funds related to Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act (HEA).
“The higher the tariff, the more likely it is that the company will come into the United States and build a factory in the United States, so it doesn’t have to pay the tariff,” Trump told Bloomberg last month. “The (exporting) countries will pay.”
Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks of Prince George’s County, Maryland made history on election night when they became the first two Black women elected to serve in the Senate simultaneously.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), one of the most vocal supporters of the MAGA movement, has publicly accused GOP leaders of harboring sexual predators, using taxpayer funds to silence victims, and suppressing evidence tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.