Mormon leaders decry abortion as evil, call out racism
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1of6FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2019 file photo, President Russell M. Nelson speaks during The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints twice-annual church conference in Salt Lake City. For the third consecutive time, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will hold its signature conference this weekend without attendees in person as the faith continues to take precautions amid the pandemic. Members of the Utah-based faith will instead watch on TVs, computers and tablets from their homes around the world Saturday, April 3, 2021 to hear spiritual guidance from the religion s top leaders, who will be delivering the speeches in Salt Lake City.Rick Bowmer/APShow MoreShow Less
Alison Collins lawsuit comes amid S.F. school district crisis. The real losers could be the students
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San Francisco School board commissioner Alison Collins speaks during a rally at school district headquarters Wednesday.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
San Francisco’s school district was already juggling a difficult classroom reopening, a departing superintendent, tattered finances and bitter leadership battles when one school board member sued the public agency and her fellow commissioners this week, magnifying the crisis.
The federal lawsuit filed by school board member Alison Collins is a rare legal challenge by an elected official against peers and a public agency, with taxpayers on the hook for attorney costs and most of any settlement or damages that could be awarded in the case that stems from a thread of tweets.
General Motors Pledges to Devote More Ad Dollars to Black-Owned Media
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General Motors, one of the nation’s biggest advertisers, said Thursday it would quadruple the percentage of its advertising dollars that go to Black-owned media outlets between now and 2025.
GM’s new effort is a sign of the scrutiny and pressure that corporate giants are facing to spread their corporate spending around a wider array of firms.
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GM said it intended to increase the allocation of its ad spending from its current 2% with Black-owned media to 4% by 2022 and to 8% by 2025.
“Black-owned media are a vital component of our marketing mix, and we evaluate our spend for media partners through several core metrics, including transparency, innovation, ad quality, audience delivery and brand safety,” General Motors said in a statement Thursday. The company also said it would in May launch an “upfront” process with diverse media
LULAC, NAACP decry bill allowing partisan activists to record Texas voters without consent
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A poll watcher looks on as election workers work before the release of early-voting returns in Harris County on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, at NRG Arena in Houston.Jon Shapley, Staff photographer / Staff photographer
Civil rights groups are warning that Black and Hispanic voters will be disproportionately videotaped without their consent at polling locations under a bill on the fast track through the Texas Legislature.
Although videotaping in polling locations in Texas is prohibited, under a bill that passed the Texas Senate just after 2 a.m. Thursday, partisan poll watchers would be allowed to videotape any person voting that they suspect
Steve Braunias: The lost and found - A portrait of life inside a rest home
26 minutes to read Summer in Auckland can often turn dark and oppressive. On days when the slow approach of a tropical thunderstorm turned the sky black and drained the Waitākere ranges of colour, I dreaded heading out to the Roseridge rest home in Henderson. It was deathly weather and it trapped the residents inside as surely as lockdown. They were housebound, feeble. Old age is a slope of decline and fall – the physical indignities, the mind wandering into some lunar wasteland. A visit on days like that seemed a bleak and cheerless way to spend my time but in fact every time I visited Roseridge in the summer of 2020-21, I left on a high, as though I had emerged from some strange and magical kingdom.