Judge Aileen M. Cannon has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his confidential documents trial until after the 2024 election.   Instead, Cannon announced on Friday that the trial date for the charges of illegally retaining dozens of classified documents will begin on May 20, 2024.  The decision arrived following what’s been described as […]

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nipsey Russell, Tony Bennett, and Harry Belafonte (Courtesy Photo/ National Museum of African American History and Culture).

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President Joe Biden has issued a pardon to all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, fulfilling a campaign promise of getting rid of possession convictions and loosening the drug’s federal classification. “Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit,” […]

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On this 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Joe Biden spoke at this morning’s (Sept. 11, 2022) wreath laying ceremony. Telling those assembled that “We will never forget, we will never give up,” Biden promised that “Our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.” First lady Jill Biden attended […]

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Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced Wednesday to three-and-a-half years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. His fellow officer J. Alexander Kueng received a three-year sentence. A jury found in February that the officers deprived 46-year-old Floyd of medical care and the were negligent to not stop Derek Chauvin from kneeling on Floyd’s […]

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In 2021, 61 active shooter events in the US resulted in 103 people killed and 140 wounded. In 2020, there were 164 events resulting in 38 dead and 126 wounded. These FBI statistics show an increase of 20 percent in active shooter incidents between 2021 and 2020. Today the frequency of active shooter incidents appears […]

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National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, took to social media to share a poem dedicated to the lives lost at the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. 19 children and two adults were murdered by an 18-year-old shooter. Gorman tweeted, “Schools scared to death. The truth is, one education under desks, Stooped low from […]

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Just a month after Gov. Larry Hogan and the General Assembly instituted a gas tax holiday, drivers will see a $.36 a gallon bump in fuel costs at the pump. The 30 day reprieve ended April 17. Gas prices have risen in part due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the end of the […]

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D.C.’s Department of Corrections will change how it houses transgender people in the D.C. Jail.

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Howard University has until tomorrow to meet the demands of its faculty who say they are unhappy. Non-tenured faculty say they feel unappreciated in light of concerns over not receiving sufficient benefits including job stability and fair pay.  Employees want layoff protection, pay raises to non-union faculty and investment of tens of millions of dollars […]

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