Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott arrives for the state’s General Assembly’s annual 90-day session, on Jan. 11, 2023, in Annapolis, Md. Scott has called for a summer curfew after two teenagers were shot at the city’s Inner Harbor area while police were attempting to break up a large crowd of minors Sunday night, April…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. The Supreme Court won’t have far to look for a personal take on the “crushing weight” of student debt that underlies the Biden administration’s…

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North Carolina A&T State University has released the following statement: “On March 26 at approximately 4 a.m., Brandon James Bentley was arrested on the North Carolina A&T State University campus after being encountered driving unsafely in the area of Sullivan Street and Benbow Road. After campus law enforcement discovered weapons in the vehicle, Bentley was…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Kimberly Berry looks at what’s left of her home outside Anguilla, Miss., Saturday, March 25, 2023, a day after a massive tornado destroyed the one-story structure where she lived with her two daughters. Berry and her 12-year-old daughter survived in a nearby church during the storm, and her 25-year-old daughter survived in the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A young girl places an item at a growing memorial,Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Nashville, at an entry to Covenant School for the victims of Monday’ shooting. (AP Photo/John Amis) ASSOCIATED PRESS  NASHVILLE — Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Caroline Ouko, mother of Irvo Otieno, holds a portrait of her son with attorney Ben Crump, left, and her older son, Leon Ochieng at the Dinwiddie Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Va., on Thursday, March 16, 2023. She said Otieno, who died in a state mental hospital March 6, was “brilliant and creative and bright.”…

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The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank, released “Five Charts To Understand Black Registered Apprentices in the United States” on Monday detailing the experiences of Black apprentices. The issue brief reveals that Black apprentices are underpaid compared to their peers from other racial and ethnic groups, in addition to being…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Eric McDonnell, chair of the African American Reparations Advisory Committee, speaks during a special Board of Supervisors hearing about reparations in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. Supervisors in San Francisco are taking up a draft reparations proposal that includes a $5 million lump-sum payment for every eligible Black person. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) By Janie…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, speaks during a briefing with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) By Tara Copp And Lolita C. Baldor ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Sen. Barbara Blackmon, D-Canton, speaks against legislation that would expand the roles for state police and appointed judges inside the majority-Black and Democratic-led capital city of Jackson, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate passed the bill which now advances to the House. (AP…

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