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FILE - Shana Bonner, left, styles the hair of Pho Gibson at Exquisite U hair salon on, July 3, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. .
Just hours after a jury in Minneapolis, Minnesotta found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on three counts in the murder of George Floyd, the city council in Morgantown, West Virginia took its own small step in the fight against racial discrimination.
In an unanimous 7-0 vote Tuesday, the Morgantown City Council became the first municipality in the state to pass an ordinance known as the CROWN Act, which bans discrimination based on hair styles and textures. The CROWN Act functioning as an acronym intends to “create a respectful and open world for natural hair.”
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A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times
A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times
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By: Steve Eder, Michael H. Keller and Blacki Migliozzi In February, Illinois enacted a law that rewrote many of the state s rules of policing and mandated that officers wear body cameras. In March, New York City moved to make it easier for citizens to
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Despite working two jobs, Lorrine Paradela, 46, of Stockton, California, endured unrelenting stress over whether she could pay her bills every month.
“Sometimes you get child support, sometimes you don’t,” says Paradela, who lives with her 17-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter and doesn’t qualify for public assistance. “My mind kept going all the time. It wouldn’t stop. I didn’t sleep right.”
In early 2019, she began receiving $500 a month as part of a Stockton pilot program that gave a similar amount to 125 residents for two years. She used the money to pay bills, buy her kids gifts, fix her 2003 Chevy Trailblazer and buy a 2015 Honda Accord that allowed her to keep working.