Police files reveal disparity in internal discipline and record-keeping
Disciplinary memos are filed, then disappear after a set period of time
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State Assemblymember Daniel O Donnell addresses those gathered at a press conference held by advocates and legislators to call for the repeal of 50a, the civil service law that prohibits the disclosure of the personnel records of police officers, firefighters and correction officers, on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The state s repeal of a statute last year that had long prevented public scrutiny of police disciplinary records has revealed that many agencies handle misconduct with counseling memos that are kept on file for a short period of time before being expunged from officers personnel files.
Texas Blackouts Hit Minority Neighborhoods Especially Hard
James Dobbins and Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times
Feb. 16, 2021
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Jorge and Fidel Benitez grill meat outside their home in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, as they have been without power since Sunday evening. Huge winter storms have plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week as frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippled electric grids and left millions of Americans without power amid dangerously cold temperatures. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)Ilana Panich-linsman/NYT
SAN ANTONIO When the lights went out Monday night in the Alazán-Apache housing project in San Antonio which stands in one of the city’s poorest ZIP codes the traffic signals in the neighborhood flickered off and storekeepers pulled down their shutters.
A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now
Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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1of9Curator Okwui Enwezor.Giorgio Zucchiatti/Courtesy Archivio Storico della Biennale di VeneziaShow MoreShow Less
2of9A Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America installation by Adam Pendleton at New Museum in New York.Dario LasagniShow MoreShow Less
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4of9A scene from Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death, a 2016 video montage by Arthur Jafa.Courtesy of Arthur Jafa and Gladstone Gallery, New York and BrusselsShow MoreShow Less
5of9A scene from Alone, a 2017 video by Garrett Bradley.Courtesy of Garrett BradleyShow MoreShow Less
Cartoonist among first to highlight struggles of Black Americans in mainstream publications Share Updated: 12:25 PM CST Feb 17, 2021 Lisa Robinson Share Updated: 12:25 PM CST Feb 17, 2021
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Show Transcript ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER, HOW HE GOT THERE, AND WHAT HE HOPES IT INSPIRES. EVER SINCE I THINK I PICKED UP A PENCIL, I HAVE BEEN DRAWING OR DOODLING. IT HAS BEEN A PASSION OF MINE. LISA: 88-YEAR-OLD WALT CARR WORKED AT THE SOCIAL SECUIRTY ADMINISTRATION AS AN ILLUSTRATOR IN THEIR ART DEPARTMENT. I’M GETTING THE AGENCY’S HIGHEST AWARD. LISA: IT WAS THERE HE STARTED HIS FREELANCE CARTOONING CAREER. HE CONTRIBUTED GAG CARTOONS WITH NO CONNECTION TO POLITICAL COMMENTARY TO BLACK PUBLICATIONS. I WAS A LONGTIME CONTRIBUTOR TO A MAGAZINE FOR THE LAST PAGE AND OF COURSE I HAD CARTOONS THAT APPEARED IN PLAYBOY, PLAYERS MAGAZINE, SEVERAL OTHER BLACK MAGAZINES. LISA: WHEN HE RETIRED IN 1993 HE BEGAN HIS SERIOUS DIVE INTO EDITOR