Category Archives: Social
California task force launches study of slave reparations
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A first-in-the-nation task force in California to study and recommend reparations for African Americans held its inaugural meeting Tuesday, launching a two-year process to address the harms of slavery and systemic racism despite th...
URI weighs revoking honorary degree from ex-Trump adviser
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The University of Rhode Island is weighing whether to revoke an honorary degree bestowed years ago to Michael Flynn, a university alumnus who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser.
US lawmakers want Ma’Khia Bryant foster care journey probed
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Three Democratic members of Congress are asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the foster care experience of Ma'Khia Bryant that preceded the 16-year-old's fatal police shooting in Ohio.
O’Toole releases Pride video as handful of MPs oppose bill to ban conversion therapy
OTTAWA — A video promoting June as Pride month coupled with a concerted push to end the gay "blood ban" is what the Conservative Party of Canada looks like under Erin O'Toole as he works to prove once and for
Judge rules national civil liberties group can challenge New Brunswick abortion law
FREDERICTON — A New Brunswick judge on Tuesday authorized a national civil liberties group to mount a legal challenge to the province's abortion law, which bans government funding for abortions conducted outside three approved hospitals. Court of Queen...
Philly police officer fired over Facebook posts reinstated
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia police department has reinstated an officer fired in 2019 over Facebook posts saying among other things that refugees should “starve to death."
Six Nations asks Prime Minister Trudeau for help searching residential school grounds
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER, ONTARIO — Canada's largest First Nations territory is asking the federal government to help it search the grounds of a former residential school for unmarked graves. Six Nations of the Grand River issued an open
Six Nations asks Prime Minister Trudeau for help searching residential school grounds
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER, ONTARIO — Canada's largest First Nations territory is asking the federal government to help it search the grounds of a former residential school for unmarked graves. Six Nations of the Grand River issued an open
Judge tosses lawsuit from ex-Marine who was jailed in Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit from a former Marine who was jailed in Iran for more than four years and then denied a multimillion-dollar payout from a special U.S. government victims' fund after an FBI
Report tells of sexual assault, racism at military institute
LEXINGTON, Va. — The Virginia Military Institute has tolerated and failed to address institutional racism and sexism and must be held accountable for making changes, according to a state-sanctioned report released Tuesday.
