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Mississippi Prosecutor Doug Evans tried really hard to pin the murders of four people on a Black man named Curtis Flowers in Mississippi in 1996. The case was blatantly racist and even Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh could see it. “In 1996, Curtis Flowers allegedly murdered four people in Winona,…
The new majority Supreme Court had its first chance to take on an abortion rights case coming from the states and it compromised on it. The hotly-contested case comes from Indiana. On Tuesday, The Supreme Court upheld a part of Indiana’s 2016 law that places new restrictions on the disposal…
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is being wishy-washy on his stance on how he thinks he treated Anita Hill in 1991. On Friday, during an interview on “The View,” Biden backtracked on an alleged apology that he said he gave Hill earlier in the week over…
For every woman of color who watched the hearing today, or has followed any of the drama up to this point, our backs are heavy. We sit here and watch accommodations made for Christine Blasey Ford, who bravely went up before a predominantly white and male Senate Judiciary Committee to…
Senators Orrin Hatch and Charles Grassley, both now in their mid 80s, were there for the Clarence Thomas hearings, and they bullied Anita Hill. Forty-one Republicans and 11 Democrats voted to give Clarence Thomas a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Now, they’re bullying Christine Blasey Ford. In addition to…
Carrie Severino, spokesperson for the Judicial Crisis Network, questioned Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations of Brett Kavanaugh’s behavior in high school saying 35-year-old memories could be of just “rough horseplay” instead of attempted rape. When a CNN anchor challenged Severino’s description of Ford’s account as a range of behaviors from boorish…
By Sheryl Estrada The Supreme Court is once again involved in the affirmative action case Abigail Fisher vs. The University of Austin at Texas, announcing Monday it will hear an appeal by Fisher, for a second time, this fall. Fisher filed a lawsuit in 2008 after she was denied admission…
Abercrombie & Fitch has once again lost a diversity and inclusion battle this time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the company was wrong to turn down a Muslim job applicant because she wore a headscarf. The company had said the scarf didn’t fit its dress code, which required a “classic…
By Albert Lin Eleven-term Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) is not backing down from a radio interview in which he called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom.” In a subsequent interview with CNN, Thompson told Dana Bash, “If you look at [Thomas’] decisions on the court, they have been…
By Chris Hoenig Americans are overly sensitive about race, according to the only Black Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Speaking to students at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida, Clarence Thomaswho grew up during the civil-rights era in a segregated Savannah, Ga.said that the country is more “conscious”…
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