Louisiana
Louisiana: Family That Got Rich Off Slavery Funding Monthly Reparations Program For Police Racism Victims
By The Independent Photos: ACLU LA\Fund For Guaranteed Income\YouTube Screenshots Each month, a dozen Louisiana residents get $1,000 in guaranteed income, thanks in part ...
New Report Exposes Rampant Abuse In Louisiana ICE Detention Facilities
By ACLU Louisiana Photos: ACLU Louisiana NEW ORLEANS —A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU, the ACLU ...
‘I’m scared’: AP obtains video of deadly arrest of Black man
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for ...
Quawan “Bobby Charles: Video shows teen being driven away from home
[Quawan “Bobby” Charles] ABC: “Footage obtained in the homicide investigation of a missing Black teen shows Quawan “Bobby” Charles leaving a Louisiana home days ...
NAACP Blast Authorities Lack Of Response in Untimely Death of Quawan “Bobby” Charles
[Death of Quawan “Bobby” Charles] NAACP: “As more information about this case continues to unravel, we expect and demand that the family is presented ...
Alton Sterling Suit: $5M Settlement nixed in Police Killing
[Alton Sterling] ABC: “The governing council in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has again rejected a proposed $5 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death ...
LOUISIANA LAWMAKER SENDS EPA LETTER REGARDING AIR QUALITY TESTING IN BLACK COMMUNITIES NEAR CHEMICAL PLANT
[Environmental Racism\Air Quality] Congressman Cedric Richmond: “Louisiana has been disproportionately affected by the detrimental environmental effects of plant emissions…I am requesting that a community ...
Essence 25th Anniversary Festival Bridging Connectivity, Technology And Culture Will Feature Keynote Speeches From 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates
[Essence 25th Festival News] 25 Essence Anniversary Festival runs from July 5-8 In New Orleans and will have keynote speeches by 2020 Candidates Kamala ...
100th Anniversary of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Birth — Keep Fighting for Voting Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer testifying at the Democratic Party convention in Atlantic City in 1964. Photo–Wikipedia Fannie Lou Hamer once said: “You can pray until ...
Trump and Sessions Abandon Smart-on-Crime For Mass Incarceration
Jeff Sessions. Photo: Gage Skidmore–Wikimedia. This was the pointed message from Senator Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) to U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions: “At a ...
