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State of NY Raises the Age of People Charged and Sentenced as Adults
Lawmakers in the state of New York voted on Sunday to raise the age of criminal responsibility as part of a $153 billion budget deal that was worked out nine days after the fiscal year began. AM New York reports that the budget was approved after debates between lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo over key…
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Sandra Bland’s Mother Returns to Texas to Support Bill Urging Sweeping Police Reforms
Sandra Bland’s mother returned to Texas on Tuesday to show support for a sweeping police-reform bill named after her daughter, who died in a jail near Houston after a confrontational traffic stop in 2015. According to the Associated Press, it was the first time Bland’s family had testified before the Texas Legislature, which meets only…
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NYU Graduate Pays It Forward by Creating a Scholarship to Help Students of the Black Diaspora
Attending college can be cost-prohibitive for U.S. students who don’t want to incur thousands of dollars in debt. For students from immigrant families, the prospect can be even more daunting or, in some cases, impossible, but one woman is seeking to change that for students of the black Diaspora with a special scholarship fund. Genet…
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ICE Temporarily Suspends Its Weekly List Meant to Shame Cities That Won’t Detain Immigrants
Remember how the Trump administration figured it would try to shame sanctuary cities into cooperating with its detainer requests by publishing the “Declined Detainer Outcome Report” on a weekly basis? Remember how the first one came out and we were all like, “Shut up, Homeland Security”? Well, apparently the administration has realized what a horrible…
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These Are the 8 Men the State of Ark. Is Rushing to Kill
The state of Arkansas is on a mission to complete eight executions over a period of 10 days during the month of April in order to beat the clock on the expiration date for one of the three drugs involved in its lethal-injection protocol. The rushed executions have been decried for a number of reasons,…
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Black Lives Matter Activists at 2 Colleges Disrupt Speech by BLM Critic Heather Mac Donald
Black Lives Matter activists on two Southern California college campuses shut down scheduled appearances by anti-BLM critic, pro-police advocate and author of the book The War on Cops Heather Mac Donald. Mac Donald, a Manhattan Institute scholar, was scheduled to give a “Blue Lives Matter” talk at UCLA on Wednesday to discuss her 2016 book…
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Has Phaedra Parks Been Fired From The Real Housewives of Atlanta?
Phaedra Parks is by far one of my favorite “housewives” of the entire franchise. Her subtle shade, faux Christianity, expert clapbacks and the gift of the phrase “Fix it, Jesus” have made her one of few things that make me tune in to the show again and again. Unfortunately, if current reports are to be…
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Ark. Ready to Execute 8 Men in 10-Day Period as Lethal-Injection Drug Set to Expire
The state of Arkansas is moving quickly to pull off eight executions in 10 days during the month of April as it tries to beat the clock on an expiring supply of a controversial sedative used during the lethal-injection process. The state plans to carry out two executions a day on four days between April…
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US Strikes Syrian Airfield in Response to Chemical Attack Earlier This Week
Cruise missiles reportedly cost $1.59 million each, and your president, who claims we don’t have enough money to fund health care, education or Meals on Wheels, just launched 50 of them at once at a Syrian military airfield Thursday. This is the first direct U.S. assault on the government of President Bashar Assad since Syria’s…
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Black Deliveryman Says NYC Butcher Gave Him Noose, Said He’d Help Him Hang Himself
A well-known New York butcher is being investigated for a hate crime after he was accused of giving a noose to a black deliveryman along with a hateful message, according to police sources. The New York Daily News reports that according to its police sources, Joe Ottomanelli, of Manhattan’s Ottomanelli & Sons Meat Market, fashioned…
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