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Legal watchers say the Fulton county district attorney’s entire career has prepared her for the prosecution of Donald Trump

Legal watchers say the Fulton county district attorney’s entire career has prepared her for the prosecution of Donald Trump

Dan Fischer analyzes the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, its roots in the Black Power movements and anarchist inspirations.

The fight to remove cops from classrooms is still raging, with some successes.

When I was 19, I worked in an emotional support classroom in a North Philadelphia elementary school. I saw children as young as five get treated like prisoners.

Florida seems to be sprinting in the opposite direction of progress. A new law allows cops to pull people over for driving loud cars.

The purpose of this project was to take a rehabilitative approach toward this history of oppression.

June 21, 2018This morning, staffers at The Appeal — a nonprofit news site focused primarily on issues of criminal justice — made the sort of announcement that’s become remarkably commonplace over the past couple of years: They were forming a union. And honestly, these days, that move is as much about a tweet as a filing with the NLRB. We ask @theappeal to voluntarily recognize our union so that we can get to work on improving The Appeal’s workplace culture and conditions. We are unioniz...

Edna Ruth Sparks passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, January 17, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas. Her life will be celebrated in music and memories at a graveside service at Brown Ranch Cemetery in Coleman County on Saturday, January 23, 2021. Visitation will begin at 2 pm with a service at 3 pm.  Dr. Robert Sloan will officiate. Services are entrusted to Stevens Funeral Home in Coleman. Edna Sparks was born November 6, 1926 in her parents’ small home in Talpa, Texas. She was the second...