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Print So long to the sweatpants and hoodies and adios to the athleisure looks! Attendees turning out to the 93rd Academy Awards at L.A.’s Union Station on Sunday — and their teams of stylists — made an all-out effort to bring old-school glamour back for the final red carpet of the awards-show season. The result was an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of eye candy that included gowns dripping in gold, sparkling in silver and bursting with eye-popping jelly-bean colors. Perhaps in a nod to the h...

pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. Theres never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. Analysis: A reckoning on racism? Not for many leaders of GOP FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2021, file photo supporters cheer and wave as former president Donald Trump is ...

Shaun King: Joe Biden Must Fix the Racist Criminal Justice System He Helped Create By Shaun King On 04/26/21 at 5:30 AM EDT I want us to have a hard conversation—about race, about injustice and about the possibility that America could seize the unprecedented moment we are in right now, the aftermath of prosecutors and a jury finally holding a violent police officer accountable for killing an unarmed Black man, to finally address the system...

Even during the trial that ended in the murder conviction of the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, police killings off people of color continued in cities around the U.S. We have to reform our police practices and root out bias.

Minneapolis Catholics continue prayers, reflection after Chauvin verdict A family in Minneapolis poses for a photograph during an Earth Day celebration moved to April 24, 2021, because of the Derek Chauvin trial. The former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. (CNS photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters) By Joe Ruff • Catholic News Service • Posted April 26, 2021 ST. PAUL, Minn...

By STEVE PEOPLES, AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If the nation is in the midst of a historic reckoning on racism, most leaders of the Republican Party are not participating. On the day last week that a jury convicted the police officer who killed George Floyd, Republicans in Washington focused much of their energy on condemning the longest-serving Black woman in Congress. In the days since, former President Donald Trump attacked what he called the “racist rants” of basketbal...

Judge Herrington: Safeguards in place to prevent media, social influence of trials FacebookTwitterEmail Huron County District Court Judge David Herrington is also the chief justice for Huron County. He previously served as an attorney in private practice and was once an assistant prosecutor for the county. Scott Nunn/Huron Daily Tribune On the heels of extensive media coverage and publicized comments surrounding the Derek Michael Chauvin murder trial, Huron County Chief Judge David Herrington ...

After a Turbulent Year, Minneapolis Looks Forward Apr 27 2021, 1:43 AM April 26 2021, 7:30 PM April 27 2021, 1:43 AM (Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the nervous moments before former police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction was announced last week, there were maybe 250 people gathered at the blocked-off intersection now known as George Floyd Square in south Minneapolis. News that a verdict had been reached prompted local companies to send employees home early. Many stores were boarded up. A few...

26 Apr 2021 Hollywood star Rosanna Arquette is once again attacking U.S. law enforcement as racist, saying that police officers patrolling communities around the country resemble the “Gestapo.” The Desperately Seeking Susan star called on all cops “who aren’t racist and aren’t set on killing human beings” to step forward. Otherwise, she wrote on social media, “it looks to us you are Gestapo.” If there are any police officers left serving our communities who aren’t racist an...

|April 25, 2021 at 11:16 PM EDT - Updated April 25 at 11:19 PM SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - “Unity is what will bring our community forward,” said Chad Mance, President of the Savannah Chapter of the NAACP. Mance, along with dozens of people, came out to Forsyth Park on Sunday for a vigil to mourn Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Ma’Khia Bryant and others who died at the hands of police. “Technology, social media, the law techniques — we are so advanced in every other area of our society that th...