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Some in our community believe the Fayetteville Police Department is disproportionately targeting Black drivers for stops and vehicle searches. Police Chief Gina Hawkins pushes back on the allegation, saying the data on stops can be misleading and her officers are just doing their jobs. This issue dubbed “Driving While Black” boils down to trust. Trust is the kind of currency that community policing is meant to shore up between officers and the public. So I was surprised to learn the Police Department this past week got rid of one of its best community liaisons, Lisa Jayne, a 10-year-veter...

The Rev. Brian Thompson and his family were riding in his black Cadillac Escalade about eight years ago when a siren interrupted their Sunday afternoon drive. Thompson, the pastor at Simon Temple AME Zion Church on Yadkin Road, had finished three church services that morning. The family had just stopped for ice cream and were headed down McPherson Church Road when the patrol car with two white police officers pulled him over. The officers approached on each side of the SUV with their hands on their guns, Thompson said. “I was looking back over my shoulder (in the mirror),” he said, “My...

Adirondack Diversity Initiative seeks more funding for agenda Gwendolyn Craig Adirondack Explorer FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Nicole Hylton-Patterson began work in December as director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative. (Photo courtesy Adirondack North Country Association)Adirondack North Country AssociationShow MoreShow Less 2of3Adirondack Diversity Initiative Director Nicole Hylton-Patterson poses for a photo in her Saranac Lake, N..Y., office on Dec. 10, 2019. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports that Hylton-Patterson is moving out of Saranac Lake, citing racist graffiti...

A Gender Policy Council That's Sexist … and Racist? | Opinion Warren Farrell , author On 2/15/21 at 6:00 AM EST Every new president vows to heal the very divide his party and opponents have spent the last year and billions of dollars magnifying. Invariably, the plea translates into "unify by agreeing with me." One of President Joe Biden's first policies appeared to bridge the gender divide by creating a White House Gender Policy Council. As someone who served on the Board of the National Organization for Women in New York City, I have seen enormous progress in women's iss...

Court Rules in Favor of Man Who Said He Was Arrested for ‘Driving While Black’: Cops Acted with ‘Arbitrary and Boundless’ Prejudgment Elura Nanos © Provided by Law & Crime The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sided with a Black man and against two Virginia cops Thursday in what the plaintiff argued had been a “driving while Black” arrest. George Wingate III had been driving on Jefferson Davis Highway in April 2017 when he experienced car trouble. Wingate is a mechanic who kept tools in the trunk of his car; he pulled to the side of the road, popped th...