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Two days after the State of Missouri executed Imam Khaliifah ibn Rayford Daniels ‘Abdul-Qudduus, 55, also known as Marcellus Williams, Black America is still, once again, grappling with the reality that laws created and enacted upon this stolen land were neither designed to protect us, nor—at barest minimum—treat us fairly.  We allegedly live in a nation where […]

A controversial law professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose alleged “racist, sexist, xenophobic, and homophobic” comments repeatedly landed her in hot water was publicly reprimanded and suspended for a year—with only half-pay—after years of fighting.  Amy Wax, a tenured professor at Penn’s Carey School of Law, was sanctioned for her controversial comments on race after a […]

Mayor Bruce Harrell may pat himself on the back for balancing a $250 million shortfall in his newly unveiled 2025-2026 budget without levying any new taxes, but a broad coalition of 35 community advocacy and labor groups say it’s not the flex he thinks it is. The Mayor cut 159 City jobs, $80 million in […]

If humanity ever goes extinct, scientists now have a backup plan: a coin-sized crystal storing the entire human genome. Future species could use this record as an instructional manual to recreate humans some millions—or even billions—of years from the present. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s very real, according to a statement from England’s University of […]

An Adams County district court judge on Friday overturned the mandatory prison sentence of a former Aurora paramedic who was convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.  Peter Cichuniec, who was convicted in late December 2023 of criminally negligent homicide alongside Aurora paramedic Jeremy Cooper, was also found guilty of second-degree assault by unlawful administration of […]

Former President of Colombia Andrés Pastrana on Saturday claimed that Venezuela is facing a “coup d’état” following the country’s disputed 2024 presidential elections. The leader of the IDEA group, a coalition of 31 former heads of government from countries in Latin America, emphasized the urgency of international intervention, specifically calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to protect the civilian population of Venezuela from […]

Transformation. Redemption. Forgiveness. Remorse.   A group of women who have served decades in Mississippi prisons use those words to describe how they have changed during incarceration and why the Parole Board should see that as evidence they can be released.  But “disheartening” is another word. They use it to describe the cycle of seeking parole. […]

Washington is sitting on millions of dollars collected from incarcerated people for phone calls and other fees – money that is supposed to be spent to improve prisoner welfare. The Incarcerated Individual Betterment Fund grew by about $1 million from last July to an estimated $12 million at the end of June, according to budget documents. […]

Maryland is one of two states, with California, to pass a so-called Kids Code law — legislation aimed at providing privacy and other protections to children using online platforms. But a federal appeals court’s decision this month to uphold much of a lower court’s injunction of the California law – on which Maryland’s law is […]