Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman and World War II veteran, is interviewed before flying a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet with fellow pilot Boni Caldeira during a round trip flight from Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to help celebrate his 100th birthday,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Derrick Johnson faces reporters during a news Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Boston, held to announce that the NAACP’s 111th national convention it to take place in Boston, in July of 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) By Aaron Morrison associated press As the NAACP turns…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ahmaud Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper-Jones, center, reacts as Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentences Greg McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Brunswick, Ga. The three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced Friday to life…

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ABOVE PHOTO: New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference outside an apartment building where a deadly fire occurred in the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon) By David Porter, Michelle L. Price and Michael R. Sistak ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Investigators sought answers Monday…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Protesters gather for a rally to press Congress to pass voting rights protections and the “Build Back Better Act,” Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) By Lisa Mascaro ASSOCIATED PRESS   WASHINGTON — Days before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A sales associate at Mid-K Beauty, helps a customer to select a wig in Portland, Ore. In both Illinois and Oregon, new laws take effect on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022, that ban discrimination based on physical characteristics, such as hairstyle. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File) By Wilson Ring ASSOCIATED PRESS  Minimum wage increases, animal…

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 By Amy V. Simmons Poor and low wealth West Virginians, impacted people from other states, national religious  leaders, economists and other stakeholders were joined by two invited members of Congress at a virtual Christmas Eve press rally demanding that Sen.Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) “stop abusing poor and low-wealth” communities. During the rally, the Rev. Dr. William…

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By Andrew Meldrum ASSOCIATED PRESS  JOHANNESBURG — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington. The Justice Department is giving $139 million to police departments across the U.S. as part of a grant program that would bring on…

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By Paul J. Weber ASSOCIATED PRESS  AUSTIN, Texas — Doling out pardons is a holiday tradition for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who around every Christmas grants them to a handful of ordinary citizens, typically for minor offenses committed years or decades ago. But one name stands out on his desk: George Floyd. Abbott has not…

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