Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: This Jan. 14, 2023, photo released by attorney Anthony D. Thomas, shows Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four from Ocala, Fla. (Anthony D. Thomas via AP)  By Freida Frisaro ASSOCIATED PRESS  OCALA, Fla. — A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff…

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The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today announced Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) grants to four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that were disrupted by bomb threats last year: Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas was awarded $191,962; Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware was awarded $217,000; Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Legal Defense Fund President and CEO Janai Nelson, flanked by other Legal Defense Fund staffers and members of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard, speaks to the press outside the U.S. Supreme Court after justices heard oral arguments on two cases on whether colleges and universities can continue to consider race as a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This December 2022 photo provided by Nakala Murry of Indianola, Miss., shows her 11-year-old son Aderrien Murry, who was shot and wounded by an Indianola Police Department officer on Saturday, May 20, 2023, during a domestic disturbance call at the home of Murry’s family. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is examining the shooting….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife former first lady Rosalynn Carter sit together during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Plains, Ga.. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File) By Bill Barrow ASSOCIATED PRESS  ATLANTA — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, her family announced Tuesday….

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ABOVE PHOTO: D’Zhane Parker, left, Cicley Gay, center, and Shalomyah Bowers pose for a portrait on May 13, 2022, in Atlanta.  (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File) By Aaron Morrison ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — A national Black Lives Matter nonprofit, whose philanthropic fortunes grew almost overnight during historic racial justice protests three years ago, raised just…

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ABOVE PHOTO: In this image from video, witness Donald Williams wipes his eyes as he answers questions, March 30, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Prosecutors and defense attorneys for two former Minneapolis police officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, charged…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Christopher Rufo, one of the controversial new trustees for New College of Florida, left, urges calm as protesters gather at the New College of Florida campus moments after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation there on Monday, May 15, 2023, in Sarasota, Fla. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP) By Anthony Izaguirre ASSOCIATED…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Dawn Basciano holds up legal documents while speaking during public comments at the California Reparations Task Force meeting, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif. She said her ancestors had land in Coloma taken by the state parks system. California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force will sign off Saturday, May 5, 2023, on key…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Abel Lopez, right, father of Xavier Lopez who was killed in the shootings in Uvalde, Texas, holds a banner honoring the victims after a Texas House committee voted to take up a bill to limit the age for purchasing AR-15 style weapons in the full House in Austin, Texas, Monday, May 8, 2023….

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