Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie attends former Governor Andrew Cuomo signing ‘Say Their Name’ police reform agenda package at office on 633 3rd Avenue. – New York, NY – June 12, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Denis Slattery, NY Daily News ALBANY — Members of the Central Park Five are putting legislative leaders on notice over a bill […]
Critics like Mayor Eric Adams say bail reform should be rolled back. Are they right?
Queens residents, community group protest District Attorney Melinda Katz demanding she takes immediate action to stop Covid-19 spread and decarcerate. Queens, New York/USA July 13, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Josefa Velasquez and Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY The subway shoving death of Michelle Go and murder of Christina Yuna Lee in Chinatown last weekend have once […]
By Julius Garvey, MD, Special to CAW Marcus Garvey after traveling throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Britain and Europe came back to Jamaica in 1914 and formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. The purpose was to unite Africans worldwide for the Redemption of Africa. Redemption meaning to regain possession of what […]
Hundreds take streets after jury finds former police Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in death of George Floyd in New York City, United States on April 20, 2021. (Shuterstock) By Alexis Karteron, Jeannine Bell, Rashad Shabazz & Ric Simmons, The Conversation Scholars analyze the guilty verdicts handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin […]
Hundreds take streets after the jury finds former police Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in the death of George Floyd in New York City, United States on April 20, 2021. (Shutterstock) By BBC After less than a day of deliberation, jurors have found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges over George Floyd’s death. […]
Patrick C. Graham, Ph.D., who currently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor for the City of Richmond and Executive Advisor for ReWork Richmond, penned the following Op-Ed outlining his perspective of the Derek Chauvin trial. Derek Chauvin’s Fate is a Test for Our Democracy There was a distant emptiness in the Minneapolis police […]
By BBC Lisa Montgomery – the only female inmate on federal death row in the US – has been executed for murder. She received a lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, after a last-minute stay of execution was lifted by the US Supreme Court. The case attracted attention because her lawyers argued […]
Photo Credit: Immigration Impact By American Immigration Council Legal Staff, Immigration Impact Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a fierce champion of progressive rights and the second woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, died on Sept. 18, 2020. Long recognized as a staunch advocate for women’s rights, Justice Ginsburg leaves behind a legacy on immigration that […]
Georgia Congressman John Lewis waves at the 50th Anniversary of the march on Washington and Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech, August 24, 2013, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. (Shutterstock) By Barrett Holmes Pitner, BBC “Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already […]
U.S. Representative John Lewis poses for a photo at Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington DC – Washington DC, USA – June 6,2020 (Shutterstock) By BBC Tributes have been paid to civil rights activist John Lewis, who has died at the age of 80. Lewis was a Congressman, which is a very important political position […]