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What's 420? A New Generation Of Wellness Consumers Is Calling For New Cannabis Branding

The branding of cannabis is important for, at least, three reasons: first, cannabis branding supports the acceptance of cannabis culture that helps reverse the social stigma that weighs on users and growers. At the same time, branding can support the advancement of social equity brands that advocate social and civil…

Benzinga

Republican politicians in Florida and Missouri refuse to let federal officials monitor voting locations

The Justice Department is sending monitors to 24 states in an effort to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws in the midterm elections

The Independent UK

GOP attack on democracy goes back to '64

Republicans started complaining about "voter fraud" in Black communities 58 years ago. Look where we are now

Salon

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Girls are held up as figureheads of political change, but they don't want to do it alone

Girls are at the centre of global movements for indigenous rights, climate justice, gender equality and civil rights. Educational activist Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel peace prize at 17.

The Conversation

A SCOTUS nursing home case could limit the rights of millions of patients

An Indiana man's family sued a state-owned nursing home for alleged mistreatment. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case could determine the right of many Americans to sue government agencies.

WEKU

Ira Winderman: Of the NBA, Kyrie, hate and hope while walking in Memphis

At the time, as I entered the temporary exhibit at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, there was little idea how the moment, by turning to the room to the left, would so tie in with the reason I was in Memphis, Tenn.

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Lois Curtis, who won a landmark civil rights case for people with disabilities, died

Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to live outside of institutions, has died.

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Boston’s Jaylen Brown meets recovering local civil rights icon Jeanne McGuire

"Thank you for the work you continue to do, and have done in our community," tweeted Brown recently.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Harvey Silverglate, Co-Founder of FIRE (and Former Director of ACLU-Mass), for Harvard Board of Overseers

Harvey Silverglate, a noted civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, is running for the Harvard Board of Overseers, on a platform of free speech and encouraging debate and viewpoint diversity. Harvey is the co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (which was recently broadened to be the Foundation…

Reason

The unlikely bond between Julia Roberts and Martin Luther King Jr

The civil rights activist and his wife paid the hospital bill for the birth of the actor because her parents couldn’t afford it

The Guardian - US

Filmmaker says Emmett Till's mother deserves her rightful place in history

Director Chinonye Chukwu tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose decision to hold an open-casket funeral for her murdered son served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

WEKU

Brickbat: Taking Sides

Former Memphis, Tenn., police officer Sam Blue has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison followed by three years probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights by using force, violence and intimidation and conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce. Blue gave police information and equipment…

Reason

Black Residents of Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Back in Court Over Pollution

The neighborhood has launched three lawsuits: over a sewage treatment plant, unsafe bridge construction, and now a desalination plant.

Texas Observer

The Supreme Court Could End Affirmative Action

In the two cases, brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Civil Rights Act

Reason

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Kanye West compares himself to civil rights icon Emmett Till in 'lynching' rant

Kanye West has shared a graphic picture of Emmett Till's dead body on Instagram as he took aim at businessman Ari Emanuel following the closure of the rapper's Donda Academy

Axios

Men wrongly convicted of Malcolm X murder to receive $36 million from New York City and state

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam spent decades in prison after the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965.

Los Angeles Times

Conservative justices may end affirmative action in college admissions — and beyond

WASHINGTON — Following last term's overturning of Roe v. Wade and an expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court's conservatives are moving now to sharply limit or strike down affirmative action at colleges and universities.

The Texas Tribune

Black residents in Corpus Christi file a civil rights complaint to stop Texas’ first desalination plant

Since 2007, Hillcrest residents have sued to challenge plans for a sewage treatment plant in their neighborhood, and then bridge construction.

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Preview: The Ghost of Frank J. Robinson

Presented in partnership with Texas Public Radio, an investigation of the death of an iconic civil rights leader, ruled a suicide by police.

The Guardian - UK

Twitter braces for Donald Trump’s return as Elon Musk takes over platform

Civil rights advocates fear proposed rule changes will turn site into ‘a supercharged engine of radicalisation’

The Independent UK

Suspended Georgia sheriff convicted of civil rights abuses

A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict on six of seven charges against a suspended Georgia sheriff accused of violating the constitutional rights of people in his custody by unnecessarily strapping them into restraint chairs

Reason

Re-reading Justice Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Bakke

In 1978, the Supreme Court issued its first significant affirmative action judgment in Bakke. The Court split 4-4-1. Four Justices argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act barred the use of race in university admissions. Four justices contended that neither the Act nor the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the use of…

The Independent UK

Peers pay tribute to Baroness May Blood following death aged 84

Lady Blood was a peace activist, civil rights campaigner and trade unionist.

Salon

EPA calls out environmental racism

The EPA accused Louisiana regulators of neglecting Black residents’ concerns about toxic air pollution

The Independent UK

Timeline of events since George Floyd's arrest and murder

George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police officers in May 2020 sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video of his arrest

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