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Jemele Hill (left) and Sherrilyn Ifill
The president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund spoke with journalist Jemele Hill for a keynote conversation at The Hollywood Reporter s Power Lawyers event.
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The Hollywood Reporter s Power Lawyers event on Wednesday, Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and journalist Jemele Hill spoke about the importance of the Senate runoff races currently taking place in Georgia and how Hollywood can fight voter suppression. When I say it s monumentally important, it s like every person in this country will be affected by the outcome of the Georgia run-off, said Ifill. The same way people engaged in November is the way I hope they are engaging around January.
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Dec 21, 2020
To Reform Police, Biden Judicial Nominees Must Come From Beyond Prosecutor s Table
Criminal justice reform advocates want more background diversity when President-elect Joe Biden makes his picks for federal judges.
As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office in just over a month, police reform advocates say that he needs to look beyond prosecutors to fill open spots on the federal bench if there’s to be any hope of implementing changes to hold law enforcement officers accountable.
Racial and gender diversity was already a critical issue for Biden’s judicial picks, especially following an administration whose choices for federal judges, as well as top federal prosecutors, were overwhelmingly white and male. But reformers say career diversity should also be a factor in Biden’s selections. They’d like to see more nominees with a professional background in areas like public defense and civil rights.
Barbers Hill ISD says study shows ‘significant correlation’ between academic success, schools with dress codes
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MONT BELVIEU, Texas – Barbers Hill ISD Superintendent Greg Poole caused quite the reaction on social media Thursday after tweeting about a district sanctioned study.
Poole wrote that the study showed “statistically significant correlations” between higher academic success and safer schools, which had more stringent dress codes.
“(Barbers Hill) Board asked for a study of all (Texas) HS’s & HS’s with a hair code like ours are safer & stronger academically. Students are 10 times as likely to commit violent offenses in HS’s with no hair code. BH is the fastest growing in Houston & high standards in ALL areas are the reason,” Poole wrote.
Is Trump headed for Mar-a-Lago?
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December 17, 2020
I thought President Trump was possibly throwing in the towel when I got a (mass-produced) email from his son Don asking not for money for a Legal Defense Fund to keep his father in office, but for my permission to have my name on a Christmas card to his father and the First Lady. It seemed that conceivably the last popularly-elected president of the United States was moving back to Mar-a-Lago.
On the other hand, Trump s former National Security Advisor, Mike Flynn, gave a speech at last Saturdays MAGA rally, saying, I ve been askedon a scale of one to ten, who will be the next president of the United States, and I say Donald Trump. Ten.