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National Review Even on Death Row, Religious Liberty Must Be Protected One need not have sympathy for those who have committed heinous crimes and now sit on death row, awaiting the most severe and final form of punishment. Yet no matter the crime, each person facing execution is entitled to and afforded the protections of … Read more
A Louisiana State Police trooper has been suspended without pay for kicking and dragging a handcuffed Black man whose in-custody death remains unexplained and the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. Body camera footage shows Master Trooper Kory York dragging Ronald Greene “on his stomach by the leg shackles” following a violent arrest and … Read more
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a ceremony for the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, January 14, 2021. KCNA via REUTERS North Korea wants “to decide which [vaccine] will be the easiest to bootleg and transport for the black market,” said an official. The nation has a long history of counterfeiting, … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — Fueled by Black turnout, Democrats scored stunning wins in Georgia in the presidential and U.S. Senate races. Now, Republicans are trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again. GOP lawmakers in the once reliably red state are rolling out an aggressive slate of voting legislation that critics argue is tailored to curtail … Read more
Dan Carter won the World Cup in 2011 and 2015 New Zealand’s Dan Carter, who won two World Cups and is world rugby’s record points scorer, has announced his retirement from professional rugby. The fly-half, 38, won the last of his 112 All Blacks caps with a man-of-the-match display in the 2015 World Cup final … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most attend churches that are predominantly Black, yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. There is broad respect for Black churches’ historical role in seeking racial equality, coupled with a widespread perception they have lost … Read more
The now-deleted post featured multiple couples embracing each other and a lone Black woman embracing herself. United Nations Women is facing backlash for its Valentine’s Day graphic shared on social media. The now-deleted post depicted three diverse couples either embracing or holding hands and an individual dark-skinned Black woman left to embrace herself. Read More: … Read more
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — As a student at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy, Aaron Appelhans used to look at the photos of past graduating classes hanging on the wall. “I got to see, for the most part, ain’t a whole lot of people that looked like me around here,” he recalled of the mainly white … Read more