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Two Black former Worcester police officers win another legal battle in decades-old discrimination case that could cost city millions WORCESTER — Two Black police officers embroiled in a 26-year legal battle with the city over alleged discriminatory promotional practices have won another legal ruling in a case their lawyer estimates could cost the city as much as $6.5 million. “It’s really sad they’ve prolonged this,” Harold Lichten, a Boston labor lawyer who has been pursuing the cas...

Alameda County’s district attorney and sheriff will both face challengers in the 2022 election. Pamela Price, a civil rights attorney who ran unsuccessfully against incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley in 2018, said today that she plans to run again. And 25-year veteran San Francisco Police Officer JoAnn Walker will run against incumbent Sheriff Gregory Ahern. Price and Walker, both Black women, said in press releases today that their campaigns will mount progressive challenges to Ala...

One officer told BuzzFeed there's a "big difference" in how his colleagues handled Wednesday's rioters compared with BLM protesters over the summer.

When asked about his predecessors speaking about the importance of racial justice, Columbus Catholic Bishop Robert J. Brennan referred to a statement made more than 20 years ago. Brennan, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus 12th bishop, has been outspoken of late on the topic of racial injustice, especially when it comes to police shootings of Black men. "There are community issues that need a moral voice," Brennan said. "We want to proclaim the good news, the joy of the gospel. We want to ...

Sometimes government appears to move maddeningly slow. Right now, though, the machinery of Virginia’s new redistricting process is whirring right along at an exceptionally brisk pace. On Nov. 3, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment that takes the power of drawing new district lines out of the hands of the majority party in the General Assembly — right now Democrats — and gives it to a special commission. This commission is, by design, evenly split between legislato...

Sometimes government appears to move maddeningly slow. Right now, though, the machinery of Virginia’s new redistricting process is whirring right along at an exceptionally brisk pace.

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A champion for young people  Teaneck is like a quilted blanket, according to Scott Pleasants. The town is unique, everyone in it looks different, yet it’s all stitched and tied together. This is what led Pleasants to move to town in 1997 with his wife, Yolanda, to raise their family of four. And it’s Teaneck’s diverse, idiosyncratic community that drives him to fight for its youth today. When Pleasants kids were entering middle school in the early 2000s, he noticed that something was o...

Shortly after the draft, a news conference is held to introduce the young prospects to local media. The front office’s top talent evaluator and the head coach explain the reasoning behind the selections and why this collection of talent will ultimately lead to winning games. That was the scene on Nov. 27 when the Detroit Pistons presented their 2020 draft class - rookies Killian Hayes, Isaiah Washington, Saddiq Bey and Saben Lee. General manager Troy Weaver said the four men, “embody everyt...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) George C. Wolfe, IN 1929, two years after the setting of Ma Rainey ’s Black Bottom and about seven months after Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues,” made her last recordings, another stylish Southern blues singer—the “Queen” of the genre—cut a song with her new husband. On “When the Levee Breaks,” Memphis Minnie looses her guitar on Kansas Joe McCoy, who starts to sing: If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s going to break If it keeps on rainin�...