Week In Review

By Margie Mason and Robin McDowellASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Former Angola prisoner, Curtis Davis, talks about his time at the Louisiana State Penitentiary during a 2021 interview near a former antebellum slave plantation near Angola, La. “Slavery has not been abolished,” said Davis, who spent more than 25 years at the penitentiary and is now…

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The federal Inflation Reduction Act includes $7 billion for projects big and small. ABOVE PHOTO: Doris Brown stands outside her solar-powered home in Houston. A hefty infusion of federal dollars under the Inflation Reduction Act could lead to more solar-powered homes in lower-income areas, providing relief to households that pay a disproportionate amount of their…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A statue of Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, VA on July 14, 2017. (Katherine Welles/Shutterstock.com) ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.  — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into…

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Philly’s strategy for solving violent crime relies on the public’s trust. The police killing of Eddie Irizarry, 27, threatens to strain that trust even more. ABOVE PHOTO: A speaker at a protest in memory of Eddie Irizarry, killed by Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial in August 2023.  Photo: Meredith Edlow By Mensah M. Dean This…

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Couch’s boyfriend, 21-year-old Eugene Louis-Jocques of Florida, was arrested in Louisiana recently where he awaits extradition. He faces murder, arson, and aggravated assault charges. AUSTELL, Ga. (11Alive & WSB TV Atlanta) Beauty Couch was best known for her champion skating on social media to her 150,000 followers. Firefighters found her body by a torched car in Cobb…

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By Amy V. Simmons One of the main messages from all the speakers during last Saturday’s 60th Anniversary March on Washington event on DC’s National Mall was that it was not a commemoration, but a continuation. It was especially important for the elders present to emphasize to the young people present that each generation has…

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By Joey Cappelletti and Corey Williams ASSOCIATED PRESS LANSING, Mich. — A white police officer handcuffed a Black child outside his Michigan home in an “unfortunate case of ‘wrong place, wrong time,’” the Lansing Police Department said last Friday. The department posted the explanation on Facebook after cellphone video circulated on social media showing the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ayana Parsons, right, and Arian Simone, of Fearless Fund attend a during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in New York. Attorneys for an Atlanta-based venture capital firm being sued over a grant program investing in Black women have vowed to fight back against the lawsuit calling it misguided and frivolous. (AP…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Jonesville Historic Gullah Neighborhood resident Josephine Wright stands between her home and an orange safety fence that boarders the 29-acre construction site, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. A Georgia-based developer’s planned 147-unit short-term rental complex that broke ground last summer. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) By James Pollard ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Monica Lee sits outside her Braxton, Miss., home, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, and expresses her feelings about the investigation that led to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleading guilty Thursday to federal civil rights offenses against two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended when an officer…

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