By Rashad Grove Lani Guinier, a progressive civil rights lawyer and prominent legal scholar, has passed away, ABC News reports. She was 71. On Friday, John F. Manning, Dean of Harvard Law School, confirmed her passing in a message to students and faculty. In an email, her cousin Sherrie Russell-Brown said that the cause of death was complications due to Alzheimer’s disease. Carol Lani Guinier was born April 19, 1950, in New York City to a family of activists and legal minds. Her father, Ewart Guinier, was the first chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies. Her mother, Eugenia “Genii” Paprin…
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By New York Times At the helm of The Wilmington Journal, she pushed to cover issues affecting the Black community that had been ignored by the mainstream press. When Mary Alice Thatch took over the reins of The Wilmington Journal, she saw the Black-owned newspaper as a vital source of information for the city’s Black population and a force that spoke truth to power. Mary Alice Thatch, a crusading third-generation newspaper publisher in North Carolina who led the fight to exonerate 10 civil rights activists wrongly convicted of arson in the 1970s, died on Dec. 28 at a hospital in…
By jeff obafemi carr NASHVILLE, TN — Yusef Harris was The Nutty Professor in my 19-year old mind—and reasonably so. As a Freshman college student in a Psychology 101 class at Tennessee State University in the Spring of 1986, I had no other reference besides memories from reruns of the original 1963 Jerry Lewis film. It was the first thing that came to mind when he entered—slightly tardy—the classroom in the Education building. Holding the door open with his foot, he broke the threshold with the rest of his body, clad in some eclectic, African-inspired clothing, accentuated with a multicolored scarf.…
By Callie Patteson Dr. Anthony Fauci raged at Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday, accusing the Kentucky Republican of “distorting” everything about him and fueling threats against the White House chief medical adviser and his family. During their verbal throwdown before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Fauci accused Paul of claiming he was “responsible for the death of 4 to 5 million people, which is really irresponsible.” “What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue,” the top health official said, “is that kindles the crazies out there, and I have threats…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – Only 42 percent of Davidson County high school seniors who have submitted a Tennessee Promise application have completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as of January 5, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission FAFSA Filing Map. Davidson County is lagging behind the state average in FAFSA completion. In 2021, nearly 76% of Tennessee Promise Applicants finished the FAFSA. To remain eligible for Tennessee Promise, students must complete the FAFSA by the deadline of February 1, 2022. That is why the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (THEC/TSAC)…
NASHVILLE, TN – Criminal Court Judge Angelita Dalton exonerated Joyce Watkins and Charlie Dunn today, reversing their 1988 convictions for aggravated rape and felony murder of a 4-year-old girl, Brandi X. The little girl was with them for 9 hours, according to Tennessee Innocence Project Senior Counsel Jason Gichner. They picked Brandi up from relatives in Kentucky and on the drive back to Nashville they realized something was wrong. They called Brandi’s mother in Georgia and told them something wasn’t right with her. By morning, she was worse and they took her to the hospital. “And she never got out…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Adams and Reese is pleased to announce J. Bennett “Ben” Fox Jr. has been appointed Partner in Charge of the firm’s Memphis office by Managing Partner Gif Thornton. The firm has a Partner in Charge in each of its 15 offices throughout the southern United States and Washington, D.C. Fox advises clients in litigation involving commercial disputes, employment issues, personal injury and property damage claims, and provides advice to clients on employment matters. He also represents and advises charter schools and other organizations that support and advocate for choice in public education. As part of his legal ethics practice, Fox…
Washington (CNN)—House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has vowed to remove three Democratic lawmakers from key committee assignments if Republicans win back the chamber in the upcoming midterm elections. Citing a “new standard” that Democrats had created last year by removing GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona from their committees for inflammatory rhetoric and posts, McCarthy told Breitbart he would strip Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both of California, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of their committee assignments.Schiff and Swalwell serve on the House Intelligence Committee, while Omar serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The Democrats have created a new…
NASHVILLE, TN – We can’t prove it. Between 2010-2014 the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) installed a new computer system called TFACTS. The Tribune has asked DCS for information TFACTS could provide. But DCS’s General Counsel, Douglas Dimond, has repeatedly said they do not have or do not track that data. They have it. They just don’t want to share it. How many kids get returned to their parents? How many permanent placements get how much in federal bounty under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997? How much in monthly payments do adoptive parents get when DCS gives them…