Minneapolis community looking to honor George Floyd hopes Wolves can lead off the court Whenever the Timberwolves playoff run ends, this community will still be here, waiting for someone to listen to and work with them. 05/19/2024 - 1:06 am | View Link
Column: Virginia should reject Confederate symbols and honor worthy figures instead Despite Shenandoah County’s actions, efforts to remove Confederate names and monuments from public spaces will continue, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Rivka Maizlish writes in a guest ... 05/18/2024 - 11:06 am | View Link
Confederate Monuments Confederate monuments continue to spark controversy ... Wednesday after being unearthed from the base of the now-removed statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee. A time capsule estimated to be more than 130 ... 05/14/2024 - 4:28 am | View Link
South is reckoning with past by renaming, removing shrines to the past. What is next? Since 2015, more than 160 monuments and memorials connected to 1860s Confederacy have been altered or removed, including some of Gen. Robert E. Lee. 05/14/2024 - 3:36 am | View Link
Confederate monuments Robert E. Lee as well as a nearby one of Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson will be removed Saturday. The bill calls for the removal of statues such as those of Jefferson Davis. 05/11/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
In early May, Georgia lawmakers celebrated the passage of the state’s latest weapon to criminalize protest: making bail unpayable.
Community bail funds, which have served as an important mutual aid strategy for Black communities and racial justice activists, are now functionally illegal in Georgia. The new law expands the cash bail system by making close to 30 offenses, including protest-related charges like unlawful assembly, bail ineligible.
As the Manhattan criminal trial of former President Donald Trump heads into the final stretch, a jury will soon deliver a verdict that could raise a series of unprecedented legal and political questions if Trump is convicted.
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The presumptive Republican nominee is currently facing trial on 34 felony counts over allegations that he falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Ahed Bseiso took a step forward. And then another.
Her hands held the walker and her eyes were trained downward, watching her left foot advance — and then her new right foot, which followed in a careful, slightly stilted rhythm. She’d learned a short time earlier how to navigate the prosthetic leg, needing only a few moments supported by a set of parallel bars before she lifted her hands and took tentative steps forward.
She was at an Englewood prosthetic clinic, its walls covered in photos of smiling people playing softball or golfing with their prosthetics.
Denver will pay $4 million to purchase a property that the city is already using to shelter migrant families who have newly arrived from the U. S. southern border.
The City Council on Monday signed off on a purchase agreement for the building at 375 S. Zuni St. and a neighboring vacant lot at 333 S.
Federal agencies seemingly withhold medical care from two women convicted of blocking access to a notorious abortion mill as a punishment for their pro-life views.