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Oct 03 2022
News
U.S. Supreme Court opens new term with a fresh face and environmental case
The U.S. Supreme Court opened what promises to be an eventful new term on Monday, hearing arguments in an environmental dispute, welcoming a history-making justice to the bench and taking up some new cases to be decided in the next nine months.
President Joe Biden's appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman justice, took part in oral arguments for the first time since being
Reuters
Jul 05 2022
Perspectives Blog
How Supreme Court Ideology Has Shifted Over Time
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history in June when she was sworn in as the first black female Supreme Court justice, replacing the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. How does her confirmation affect the judicial ideology of the Supreme Court?
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Sep 08 2022
Opinion
Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway
Since the mid-20th century, urban highway construction has worked as a powerful tool to segregate American cities and demolish communities of color. These imposing roadways served as a physical barrier to reinforce racist policies like redlining. As a result, walls of concrete and veils of smog and pollution grew to separate Black and brown communities from white.
Although government-
Guest Writer - Center
Sep 08 2022
Analysis
How Bad Is the Teacher Shortage? What Two New Studies Say
Headline after headline over the past month have proclaimed a national teacher shortage—one that’s “really bad” or at “catastrophic” levels. The issue has even risen to the attention of the White House.
But how bad is it, really?
Two new studies, both published in August by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, attempt to uncover concrete information about teacher
Education Week
Sep 26 2022
News
Ian strengthens into a hurricane, heads toward Cuba and Florida
Hurricane Ian moved near the Cayman Islands and closer to western Cuba early Monday on a track to hit Florida as a major hurricane this week.
Ian was forecast to intensify rapidly and become a major hurricane as soon as late Monday before becoming an even stronger Category 4 hurricane over warm Gulf of Mexico waters before striking the west central coast of Florida on Wednesday.
CNBC
Jul 29 2022
News
Prison Cells Can Reach Nearly 150 Degrees in the South
Summers in the U.S. have been getting hotter year over year—and more dangerous as a result.
But very few Americans have to face the heat with next to no relief options like the country’s incarcerated population. Record-breaking temperatures can quickly become a health risk for the largely Black and Brown incarcerated population, particularly in the South.
Vice
Dec 10 2017
News
California wildfires: Governor offers grim outlook
Gov. Jerry Brown has a sobering message for Southern Californians after a week of raging wildfires: This is your new normal.
CNN (Online News)
Sep 04 2022
Analysis
Jackson water crisis: A legacy of environmental racism?
Marshall lives in west Jackson, in the US state of Mississippi - a predominantly black and poor part of the city. He has no choice but to drink the tap water that Jackson residents have been told to avoid. When he turns the tap on - the water runs brown.
He says it's been like this for about eight months and he has no choice but to drink it.
"Yes ma'am. I been drinking it." He
BBC News
Jul 19 2022
News
House Passes Bill To Protect Same-Sex Marriage In Rebuke To Supreme Court
Lawmakers on Tuesday pushed a bill through the House of Representatives to protect same-sex marriage, amid worries that it may be in danger after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade abortion precedent.
The vote on the bill, authored by House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), was 267 to 157. The bill drew significant Republican support, with 47 of the 211 House GOP
HuffPost