Lakeland Bank Announces Settlement of Claims Made by U.S.
OAK RIDGE, N.J., Sept. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lakeland Bank (“Lakeland”), the wholly owned subsidiary of Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., today announced it...
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OAK RIDGE, N.J., Sept. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lakeland Bank (“Lakeland”), the wholly owned subsidiary of Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., today announced it...
Be shared across the board, the leadership on every level. >> last, year we told you about the water disaster in benton harbor, michigan, where centuries old lead pipes and it crumbling infrastructure poise into the water, almost half of the people there live in poverty, over 80% of residents are black. you have likely heard of the flint water crisis as well, a city that's also a majority black -- black and brown. it's no coincidence each of the seas are predominantly black and brown. it is not a coincidence that they have histories of racial and economic inequality. when joe biden issued an e...
Case was reopened, bryant's case was brought in front of a mississippi grand jury. that grand jury did not indict her. >> a majority black grand jury did convene in greenwood, mississippi, and they declined to indict carolyn bryant don ham. w what do you make of that? >> we're not sure why they declined to indict her because there was enough evidence there to indict her. the investigation had been done. >> the watts say their whole lives they have lived with mamie till mobley's haunting cries for justice and the images that horrified a nation, of their cousin emmett till's body lying dig figur...
Bryant donham, was never tried. we reached out to donham and have not heard back. >> we think this is evidence, this is new evidence that no one had ever searched for, and we were able to find it. it was unbelievable, it was overwhelming. we all cried. we were also in a state of shock. speechless in some instances. >> the moment was very, very, very overwhelming. i had to look at the warrant several times just to make sure it was real, that it actually read mrs. roy bryant on it. >> reporter: though she was never arrested or tried, in 2007, after the till case was reopened, bryant's case was b...
To find it. it was unbelievable. it was overwhelming. we all cried. we were also in a state of shock. speechless in some instances. >> well, the moment was very, very, very overwhelming. i had to look at the warrant several times just to make sure that it was real, that it actually read mrs. roy brandt on it? >> though she was never arrested or tried, in 2007, after the till case was reopened, bryant's case was brought in front of a mississippi grand jury. that grand jury did not indict her. >> a majority black grand jury did convene in greenwood, mississippi and they declined to indict caroli...