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11-15-2024 8:44 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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The Supreme Court (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, an issue affecting a rising number of people in the U.S. The high court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines to strike down a ruling that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
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CNN, which declined to provide Black-owned media with any of the more than 800 credentials it passed out, enabled a boatload of misinformation and flat-out lies to pass through their airwaves like bad wind.
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The rejection has ignited a firestorm of criticism, highlighting the broader issue of racial inequity in media representation. Atlanta, a city with a rich history of Black culture and leadership, finds its Black-owned media sidelined at a critical political event.
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State Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Voters passed the law in 1950. Opponents say its aim was to keep people of color out of white neighborhoods. Three other attempts to either repeal or change the law have failed in the decades since it passed.
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A group of formerly enslaved people gather on a South Carolina plantation during the Union occupation in 1862. Corbis/ Getty Images
The study looked at federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups
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Rev. Dr. Kevin R. Johnson (Karim Muhammad/Brian Communications)
New York City’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church has elected its new senior pastor, likely bringing an end to a national search to replace the late Rev. Calvin O. Butts. He had served the church for a half-century before his death in 2022.
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Three of the passengers are suing the airline for discrimination. They say they were removed from a plane in Phoenix in January after a white male flight attendant complained about their body odor. The men say all the Black men on the flight were kicked off.
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Vice President Kamala Harris says “everything is at stake” with reproductive health rights in November's presidential election. Harris' comments contrasts President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on the issue before their debate Thursday night. The Supreme Court's decision that overturned the federal legal right to an abortion was made by a court that included three conservative justices nominated by Trump
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Millions of Americans prepared to sweat through yet another scorching day, with the potential for rolling storms to bring relief from high temperatures for at least some. Floodwaters inundated parts of the Midwest. From the mid-Atlantic to Maine, across much of the Midwest and throughout inland California, public officials cautioned residents sweating through the heat and humidity. The National Weather Service warned of the potential for rare tornadoes in the Northeast
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National Monument to Freedom (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)
The monument is inscribed with the surnames that formerly enslaved people chose for themselves after being emancipated at the Civil War’s end. The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative said Juneteenth is a day to honestly confront the brutality of slavery but also honor the people who managed to remain hopeful despite what they faced.
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