NY Times: “A federal judge on Monday rejected plea agreements with the Justice Department for two of the three white men facing hate crime charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after his family expressed fierce opposition to the deal.It was a surprising and extraordinary twist in a case in which a 25-year-old Black man…
“More than 12 HBCU campuses targeted in new round of bomb threats”
NBC News: “More than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats on Tuesday, the first day of Black History Month. Howard University was among the first to issue a shelter-in-place order early Tuesday — just a day after the school and several other historically Black colleges and universities received similar threats. “A bomb…
Graphic Novel About Holocaust Becomes Best Seller on Amazon After Ban by TN School Board
CNBC: “”Maus,” the decades-old graphic novel about the effects of the Holocaust on a family, has become an Amazon bestseller as part of a backlash to the news this week that it was banned by a Tennessee school board. The McMinn County board says it took that step on Jan. 10 because of a handful of curse words…
“Donald Trump should not lead the country again, says the Republican leader of the National Governors Association”
Business Insider: “The Republican chairman of the National Governors Association said on Saturday that Donald Trump should not lead Republicans or the country again. “I do not believe Trump is the one to lead our party and our country again, as president,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told Insider on the sidelines of the NGA Winter…
“[MS Sen.] Wicker: Black Woman Supreme Court Pick An Affirmative Action ‘Beneficiary’”
MS Free Press: “The first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in history will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker told a radio show this afternoon. The senior Republican senator from Mississippi made clear that he has no plans to vote for Biden’s yet-to-be-announced pick. Biden has vowed…
“3 Women Say Roy Moore Asked Them for Dates as Teens”
Political Wire: ““Three women who said Roy Moore asked them for dates as teens — when he was in his early 30s — testified Thursday morning in Leigh Corfman’s defamation lawsuit against the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court,” AL.com reports. “Two of the women said they went on multiple dates with Moore in about…
“North Carolina superintendent abruptly removes MLK-themed novel from 10th grade class”
Popular Information: “An acclaimed MLK-themed novel was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina. Haywood County Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte told Popular Information that he pulled the book, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, in a matter of hours after receiving one parent complaint. Nolte said he did not read the book — or even obtain…
“Federal judges block Alabama U.S House map, order 2nd majority-black district”
Chicken Fried Politics: “With candidate qualifying already underway for this year’s midterm election, a panel of federal judges have thrown a chunk of concrete into Alabama’s political pond, telling state legislators that they will have to recraft the state’s US House map to add a second majority-black district. Unless a higher court intervenes, the January…
“Is it time to ditch At Large seats on Houston City Council?”
Off the Kuff: “The lack of Latinos on the City Council undermines the legitimacy of Houston’s government, experts say, and is something that a prominent Hispanic organization is pushing to change with a lawsuit and ballot proposition. The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the largest Hispanic civil rights organizations in the country,…
“Lawyers Trying to Disqualify Madison Cawthorn”
Political Wire: “A group of lawyers is working to disqualify from the ballot a right-wing House Republican who cheered on the Jan. 6 rioters unless he can prove he is not an ‘insurrectionist,’ disqualified by the Constitution from holding office, in a case with implications for other officeholders and potentially former President Donald Trump,” the New…