By ANDREW J. YAWN, USA Today/The American South undefined
NEW ORLEANS Each week, high school senior Joia’ White’s phone pings with a Cash App notification. Her school, The Rooted School in New Orleans, just transferred another $50 to her account.
“I’m like, ‘Okay. $50 more to add to the bank,’” said the 17-year-old.
It’s $50 White wouldn’t have had otherwise. And that’s the point of The Rooted School’s guaranteed income experiment, which will pay 10 seniors $2,600 each over the course of a year.
White is one of the seniors to receive weekly payments, which started last month and continues through October 2021.
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Harvey Gulf International Marine reported that one of its US-flagged platform supply vessels is the first such vessel to operate with battery power.
A U.S.-flagged Harvey Gulf International Marine platform supply vessel (PSV) is the first such vessel to operate with battery power, the New Orleans-based marine transport provider reported Monday.
The tri-fueled PSV Harvey Energy has successfully completed three months of operations with battery power, Harvey Gulf noted in a written statement emailed to Rigzone. The firm stated the PSV, upon commissioning of the battery system, went on hire for a term contract with a major oil company. In addition to battery power, the PSV Harvey Energy can run on LNG and diesel fuel.
Rooted in racism: the origins of qualified immunity Reuters 12/23/2020
(This article accompanies SPECIAL REPORT-Challenging police violence.while Black USA-POLICE/IMMUNITY-RACE)
By Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell, Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung
Dec 23 (Reuters) - Qualified immunity, entwined with the U.S. history of racism and the struggle against it, emerged during the civil rights movement.
Throughout 1961, groups of activists known as Freedom Riders challenged segregation in interstate public transit stations in the South. The Supreme Court had outlawed such segregation in a ruling the previous year, but local police still arrested hundreds of protesters who descended on the South to enter “whites only” or “colored only” areas of bus and train stations.