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Marvin Roberts has pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Since 2011, GoLocal has annually featured Rhode Islanders of note to watch in the coming year. This year’s list includes an emerging star in the music industry and a 16-year-old phenom.

For years, Rachel Flum served as the outspoken, effective policy voice of economic equity in Rhode Island as head of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In December, the organization announced Weayonnoh Nelson-Davies as its new Executive Director

The NBA announced the largest grant in history of the league's foundation, and it's to help create Black youth employment opportunities.

Gov. Wolf announced $15.7 million in grant funding to support local strategies to stop gun and group violence across Pennsylvania.

Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform The PBS News Hour has this great new and lengthy piece about marijuana expungement laws and practices under the headline "As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records cleared."  Regular readers know I have long been invested in these issues  (see my 2018 article, "Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices"), and I am especially pleased that folks at the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center worked with folks ...

As more states legalize marijuana, people with drug convictions want their records clearedNation Updated on May 5, 2021 7:06 PM EDT — Published on May 3, 2021 5:58 PM EDT Michael has struggled with kidney disease since he was in his early 20s serving in the military. The high stress of the job ultimately put him in the hospital, and he was not able to return to the service due to his condition. The 37-year-old Virginia Beach ...

April 26, 2021 Three students in the College of Arts & Sciences have been honored with Harry Truman and Barry Goldwater scholarships. Cosimo Fabrizio ’22, is the winner of the Harry Truman Scholarship, which provides $30,000 toward graduate school for juniors committed to careers in public service. This year 62 scholars were selected from a pool of 845 candidates representing 328 colleges and universities. Cosimo Fabrizio ’22 Nikita Borisov ’22 and Jon Meinhardt ’22 were awarded the Bar...

Joe Ligon is pictured in 1963, 10 years into his prison sentence. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Ligon entered prison when Dwight Eisenhower was president. During the 68 years that he spent incarcerated in a half dozen penal institutions, the world outside moved on. At the one-day trial in 1953, Ligon and his co-defendants were referred to as “coloured.” At school, his special education classes were designated for the “orthogenically backward.” He was incarcerated in a facility nam...

Joe Ligon, convicted in a stabbing, was 15 when he went to jail, but despite offers of parole, sought freedom on his terms.