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2 GOP Senators Say They’ll Vote Against DeVos’ Confirmation as Education Secretary
As the ongoing saga of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet confirmations continues, two GOP senators have come forward and said they will vote against Betsy DeVos for education secretary, giving Senate Democrats two of the at least three votes they will need to block her appointment. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) made their…
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Minn. Man Found Guilty of Shooting Black Lives Matter Activists During Protest
A Minnesota man charged with felony first-degree assault and riot charges in the November 2015 shooting of five people at a Black Lives Matter protest was convicted by a jury Wednesday. The Star-Tribune reports that the jury deliberated for seven hours before finding Allen “Lance” Scarsella, 24, guilty on all counts following two weeks of…
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Prison Siege: Del. Inmates Take Staff Members and Fellow Prisoners Hostage
A hostage situation is underway at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del., after an unknown number of inmates took control of a building Wednesday morning, injured one corrections officer and took four others, as well as fellow prisoners, captive. The News Journal reports that as of Wednesday night, there was little progress…
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Bad-Ass Mich. State Student, 22, Is Running for Mayor of Detroit
In a continuing trend of millennials raising the bar and showing they have what it takes to help institute positive change in the world, a 22-year-old black woman has announced her candidacy for mayor of Detroit. Although Myya D. Jones has not graduated from college yet, the Michigan State University business-management major has already built…
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Charlotte, NC, Teacher Bonds With Students Through Personalized Handshakes
We all have that one teacher we remember fondly—the one who pushed us just a little bit harder or was always funny in class or took extra time to make sure we got the learning in the lesson. Some teacher somewhere made an impact on our lives, and maybe it was more than one. For…
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‘White Privilege’ Essay Contest Offends Those With White Privilege in Overwhelmingly White Conn. Town
When a committee in the town of Westport, Conn., announced an essay contest on the topic of white privilege, it did so in hopes that it would spark an important conversation in this wealthy coastal town of roughly 27,000 people, 85 percent of whom are white. Instead, the contest offended many of the residents. “In…
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What We Need to Know About US Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s Pick for Supreme Court
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that he had selected U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. So just who is Neil Gorsuch? According to NPR, Gorsuch, 49, is a solidly conservative judge with a record of strictly interpreting the Constitution, who reportedly sailed through…
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Former Ohio Inmate Files Lawsuit Alleging She Was Refused Medication and Raped by Jailers
A female former inmate of the Warren County Jail in Ohio filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that during her 11-day incarceration in 2013, two corrections officers raped her, and on one occasion they assaulted her with so much force that they “shattered” her shoulder bones. The Washington Post reports that according to the suit, on…
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African Union Rebukes US for ‘Taking Many of Our People as Slaves’ but Not Refugees
On the heels of Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration and refugees and a weekend filled with confusion and airport delays as travelers tried to make it back into the country, the head of the African Union has criticized the widely condemned ban on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries, saying that it presents “one…
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On Eve of Controversial Sessions Confirmation Vote, 30 Arrested in NAACP Action in Ala.
Hours after a municipal prosecutor in Mobile, Ala., dropped all trespassing charges against the NAACP officials and supporters who occupied the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) earlier this month, a group of protesters occupied his office again Monday in advance of Tuesday’s controversial vote to confirm him as U.S. attorney general. Monday’s planned…
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