Week In Review

Hashem Abderaman sits in his bed next to his mother while receiving treatment at the paediatric hospital stabilization center in Port Sudan, Sudan, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) By Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT SUDAN, Sudan — Famine. Massacres. And now badly needed food and other supplies are under strain….

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The National Rainbow PUSH Coalition has issued the following special leadership statement: “Today, I am honored to share that I have been appointed President and CEO of the National Rainbow PUSH Coalition and its related entities, following the unanimous approval of our Boards of Directors. I am deeply grateful for their confidence — and for…

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Lonna Drewes joins her lawyer Lisa Bloom at a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, April 14, 2026, to detail allegations of sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, after Swalwell exited the California governor’s race and said he’ll resign his seat in Congress. The AP typically does not identify people who say they are…

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Pictured (left to right); Elementary School faculty member Aisha Williams and director of family & community engagement Erlinda Zeledon, both of Foundation Academies, pose with some of the creative merch available to exhibit attendees. Foundation Academies’ Black Student Union, in partnership with the Princeton Battlefield Society, recently unveiled “Men W/O Shoes,” a student-led multimedia exhibition…

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FILE – President Barack Obama awards American labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta the Presidential Medal of Freedom, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) March 18, 2026 medium.com Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the…

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FILE – United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta, center, leads a rally in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 19, 1988, along with Howard Wallace, president of the San Francisco chapter of the UFW, left, and Maria Elena Chavez, 16, the daughter of Cesar Chavez, right, as part of a national boycott of what the…

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University of Oklahoma freshmen attend a student welcome event in August 2023. A lawsuit by a coalition of mostly Democratic-led states argues that a new Trump administration reporting requirement on race, gender and test scores could threaten student privacy and overburden universities. (Photo by Kyle Phillips/For Oklahoma Voice) Since the 2023 Supreme Court decision on…

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FILE – Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Bernard LaFayette speaks to reporters after attending a SCLC meeting, March 6, 2010, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File) By Travis Loller ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in…

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FILE – Policemen stand on top of their car with pictures of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right and left, and his son Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the successor to him, center, during a rally to support him in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) By Jon Gambrell ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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People visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Middle Passage exhibit, including a wooden timber, the artifact at left, from the slave ship, the São José-Paquete de Africa, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) By Gary Fields, River Zhang, and Jacquelyn Martin ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian museum…

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