February 02, 2021
Jay Carney, Sarah Cleveland, Benedict Morelli, Nazanin Rafsanjani, and Mara Frankel Wallace Join Human Rights First Board
WASHINGTON – Human Rights First today announced the addition of five new members to its board of directors: Jay Carney, Sarah Cleveland, Benedict Morelli, Nazanin Rafsanjani, and Mara Frankel Wallace.
“We are thrilled to welcome such distinguished colleagues to the board of Human Rights First, given the urgency and importance of the organization’s mission advancing human rights and justice in the U.S. and around the world,” said
Human Rights First’s board co-chair Mona Sutphen.
Michael Rozen, co-chair of the board of Human Rights First added, “The expertise these new board members bring from media, law, policy, and nonprofit management will add to the depth and quality of the organization’s already strong work. We very much look forward to their contributions.”
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Groundhog Club handler A. J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, as Vice President Tom Dunkel reads the scroll during the 135th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., Feb. 2, 2021.
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We began by talking with listeners about how much President Joe Biden ought to negotiate with the GOP on an upcoming COVID-19 stimulus package.
Trenni Kusnierek discussed the racial reckoning in the world of sports, touching on former MLB player Tommy Harper’s experience of racial bias in his neighborhood and the disparity in football coaching opportunities for people of color. She also talked about Red Sox baseman Dustin Pedroia’s career and his recent decision to retire. Kusnierek is an anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Boston and a weekly
Gazette, a solicitors’ firm won £25,000 in damages from a former client who had posted a
negative report about the firm on Trustpilot, which started with the words ‘A total waste of money another scam solicitor’.
Jonathan Goldsmith
There is no evidence from the case report that the firm tried to defend itself on Trustpilot. It wanted the review removed, and when it was not, it wanted damages.
But what if the firm had tried to defend itself on Trustpilot? The American Bar Association (ABA) has just issued a formal opinion for US attorneys - ‘Responding to Online Criticism’ - about
by afampov · February 2, 2021
UNITY WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY
It is one thing for President Joe Biden to call for unity but it is a much different thing for those who enabled Donald Trump for four of the ugliest and most divisive years in presidential history to call for it as though they have earned it and have the moral authority to demand it. They certainly haven’t earned it and without concrete signs of repentance – such as admitting the obvious truth that Joe Biden won the election fairly and squarely – unity should not be on the table.
UNITY WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY
Black folks know well what unity among White opponents without accountability means since it was not that long ago in our history, after millions of folks were killed in a rebellion started and lost by White Southerners to prolong slavery, that Reconstruction, a program instituted by Abraham Lincoln to uplift and protect freed slaves, was abruptly terminated after less than a d
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