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Social Justice

Former Bordentown Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr.
Courts & Law

Hate crime trial for former N.J. police chief will go to the jury on Monday

The defense only called one witness, an FBI agent on the case who called it “atypical.” Federal prosecutors and Frank Nucera Jr.’s attorneys will give closing arguments on Mon

4 years ago

Chrystul Kizer (shown here with her lawyers in 2019) is arguing that it was self-defense when she killed the man who sexually abused her. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

After the Rittenhouse verdict, focus returns to Chrystul Kizer’s self-defense case

Kizer, who was 17 at the time, is accused of shooting Randall P. Volar III in the head; Volar had previously been arrested on child sexual assault charges.

4 years ago

Deputy Attorney General Mark Denney
Courts & Law

Del. expands mandatory investigations of police use of force in cases of serious injury

A special division of the Attorney General’s Office was previously only required to investigate use of deadly force by police.

4 years ago

Gareth and Fe Hall (Fred Adams for Spotlight PA)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

The final moments: Videos show Christian Hall, 19, had his hands up when police fatally shot him

Authorities obscured the last 4 seconds of Christian Hall’s life in publicly released videos. New footage shows the teenager had his hands up when Pa. State Police killed him.

4 years ago

Henry Montgomery laughs inside the Louisiana Parole Project offices in Baton Rouge, La. after being released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, after serving 57 years in prison, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Montgomery, central to a Supreme Court case that extended the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life without parole as juveniles has been released from prison after being granted parole. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Courts & Law

Officials release prisoner who was key in juvenile life debate

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentencing of life without parole for juvenile offenders was “cruel and unusual” punishment.

4 years ago

Khalil Islam, center, is booked as the third suspect in the slaying of Malcolm X, in New York, March 3, 1965. Islam, previously known as Thomas 15X Johnson, one of two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X, is set to be cleared after more than half a century, with prosecutors now saying authorities withheld evidence in the civil rights leader's killing, according to a news report Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Detective John Keeley is at right. (AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

2 men set to be cleared in the 1965 killing of Malcolm X

“These men did not get the justice that they deserved,” District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. told The New York Times, which first reported on the developments.

4 years ago

Aerial view of Dewey Beach
Courts & Law

Dewey Beach condones brutality by police, victim of cop’s attack alleges in lawsuit

Mark Taylor was punched so hard by officer Gregory Lynch Jr. that blood spurted on to the uniforms of other officers. Lynch falsely claimed he was “strangled’’ by Taylor.

4 years ago

The exterior of Azavea headquarters
Community
Billy Penn

Reckoning at Philly tech company where VP faced few consequences after using N-word during work meeting

Last year’s Black Lives Matter statement resurfaced the 2016 incident.

4 years ago

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, sits with Ahmaud Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, center right, during the trial of Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William
Courts & Law

Tensions flare in Arbery death trial as Jesse Jackson visits

Rev. Sharpton led a prayer and spoke out against injustice during the noon break in the trial of three men charged with murder in Ahmaud Abery's shooting death.

4 years ago

Marchers walk from the art museum to Philadelphia City Hall as part of an abortion rights rally held in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. Hundreds gather in Philadelphia as part of
Community
Billy Penn

The Women’s Medical Fund is now the Abortion Liberation Fund of Pa.

Pennsylvania’s largest abortion fund is rebranding in the name of inclusivity.

4 years ago

Judge's gavel on wooden table with law books. (bigstockphoto.com)
Courts & Law

Homer Plessy, key to ‘separate but equal,’ on road to pardon

Homer Plessy was arrested in 1892 after boarding the train car as part of an effort by civil rights activists to challenge a state law that mandated segregated seating.

4 years ago

A man in a wheelchair hands his ID to a TSA officer
NPR
Community

Despite calls to improve, air travel is still a nightmare for many with disabilities

Congress told the TSA and airlines in 2018 to improve air travel for people with disabilities. But TSA data and stories from flyers suggest little has improved.

4 years ago

A general view of the American Psychological Association headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic.
(Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via Reuters)
NPR
Health

American Psychological Association says it’s sorry for perpetuating systemic racism

The American Psychological Association is seeking to make amends for past wrongs.

4 years ago

immigration center guard
Courts & Law
WITF

A major immigrant detention center just closed in Pa. but plans for new a one could mean more detainees here than ever

A lawsuit against Clearfield County could at least pause the establishment of one of the largest and private detention centers in the northeast.

4 years ago

View of an empty classroom
Real Black History
Education

Educators say teaching Black history truthfully is their goal, not indoctrination

Real Black History takes a look at the controversy around Critical Race Theory and how some teachers are filling in the gap of what their students know about American history.

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