Nonprofit works to help Black landowners and reclaim Black land starting with Sapelo Island
Amber Smith, For Beacon Magazine
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7:54 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021
Beacon Magazine and the Savannah Morning News explore the effects of race and class discrimination in Savannah institutions and offer solutions to overcoming the obstacles that divide us.
Map of Sapelo IslandPhoto courtesy of Black Land Matters
Not far from Savannah, on Sapelo Island, lies Hog Hammock. This small Black community is a striking example of how culture can be preserved. As one of the last surviving intact Gullah Geechee communities, life in Hog Hammock is still much like it was in the 1700s.
USITC attorney backs BAT in Philip Morris patent dispute
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An attorney for the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has recommended that the Commission find Philip Morris International (PMI) to have infringed British American Tobacco’s (BAT) patents, which would likely lead to PMI’s IQOS products being excluded from the US market as early as November 2021.
Administrative Law Judge Clark Cheney is hearing the dispute at the ITC, which began on Monday, January 25.
The trial, which is the latest development in the ongoing IP spat between US multinational tobacco company PMI and British tobacco manufacturer BAT, is expected to conclude next week, as reported by
Californians to vote on banning sale of flavored tobacco Follow Us
Question of the Day By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press - Friday, January 22, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Californians will vote in 2022 on whether the state should ban the sale of flavored tobacco products, including flavored vaping cartridges.
Lawmakers approved the ban in 2020, but a referendum qualified Friday, meaning voters will have their say in November 2022. In the meanwhile, the law won’t take effect. Major tobacco companies backed the referendum in hopes of overturning the law.
The flavored tobacco ban restricts sale of the products but does not criminalize possession. It also exempts loose-leaf tobacco, premium cigars and shisha tobacco used in hookah. It bars the sale of flavors including - but not limited to -“fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint,
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