by Press | Jul 24, 2019 | Newsclips
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The maps used to elect Louisiana’s seven state Supreme Court justices are discriminatory against African American voters, according to a civil rights group’s lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge seeks a...
by Press | Jul 24, 2019 | Newsclips
WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s director said the bureau has abandoned the term “black identity extremism” as part of a broad reconceptualization of how it thinks about racially motivated crime. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI...
by Press | Jul 18, 2019 | Newsclips
In a stunning act of xenophobia and outright racism, President Trump told four Congresswomen of color to “go back” to the countries they came from, disregarding the fact that all four are American citizens.
by Press | Jul 18, 2019 | Newsclips
Today’s guest hosts are Charlotte Hancock, Communications Director for Generation Progress, and Brent Cohen, Executive Director of Generation Progress and the VP of the Center for American Progress. They discuss two very important and timely topics during...
by Press | Jul 18, 2019 | Newsclips
Voting in elections next year could be more difficult in one rural, South Georgia county. The Randolph County elections board plans to close three of its nine polling places nearly a year after it rejected a proposal months before the midterm elections in...
by Press | Jul 15, 2019 | Newsclips
A new report says Oklahoma’s underfunded criminal justice system is a big reason the state puts so many people in prison. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law report says courts are underfunded by the state — in some cases, getting just 10% of their...
