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Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor. Shelia Washington in an undated photo at the spot where the Scottsboro Boys were arrested. She recognized that their story was an important milestone in the annals of civil rights, and was determined that it be remembered. “The story dies if we don’t tell it,” she said.Credit...William H. Hampton Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021 Shelia Washington was cleaning her parents’ ro...

Black History From the Year You Were Born By Niesha Davis, Stacker News On 2/9/21 at 6:30 PM EST Each February, Black History Month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements, and reflecting on the experiences, of African Americans. What began as a week in 1926 has blossomed into 28 days of remembrance and lessons on the contributions of Black Americans. Many Black Americans come from a lineage of captured and enslaved people who were forcibly brought to the U.S. to build the culture and infrastructure of a place in which they never asked to live. Forced immigration and centuries of cult...

Jerry Summers: The Bravest Judge In Legal History Monday, December 28, 2020 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers Most of the legal decisions that establish new precedents or expansion of civil liberties are usually handed down by appellate judges and not by trial judges.  The reasons for this are numerous: 1. Appellate judges are usually removed from the local notoriety of highly sensational cases.  They normally hear cases at some distance from the actual trial.  The hearings at which attorneys argue the merits of a conviction are usually poorly attended in contrast to the actual tria...

0 president obama. just last month in his second inaugural address president obama called for an inlasting p does not require perpetual war, but that is what this administration has largely institutionalized. this week, michael isikoff got a hold of a secret department of justice memo which outlines the legal basis for the administration to use legal force in count terrorism tactics even against american citizens. this is the provocation for use of force and one that trumps constitutional protections and it goes further that the military can engage in a preemptive attack even without clear evi...

book tv presents "after words," an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week sylvia nasar and her latest book, "grand pursuit: the story of an economic genius." and if the best-selling author of a beautiful mind takes readers through the history of economics, the city's most influential theorists and the intellectual pursuits that she believes have helped people all over the world. she talks with u.s. managing the trip of the financial times, gillian tett. >> host: sylvia, thank you for joining me to talk about your earliest book, absolutely fascina...