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Innocence Project: 2018 was record year for exonerations

July 24, 2019

By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney News Wire The Innocence Project reported in the most recent issue of its magazine that a record nine clients were exonerated and released from prison in 2018 for crimes they didn’t commit. Maddy deLone, Innocence Project’s executive director, wrote in the Spring 2019 issue

June 20, 2019

NEWS ANALYSIS By Jesse Jackson Trice Edney News Wire This week marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court decision that outlawed apartheid in America, declaring segregated schools “inherently unequal” and unconstitutional. Today, the common sense of the Brown decision is under attack. For

Biden enters presidential race bringing White supremacy to the forefront of issues

June 20, 2019

Calls campaign against Trump as ‘battle for the soul of America’ – but will he get the Black vote? By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire Former Senator and Vice President Joseph Biden, after much suspense, has finally entered the Democratic campaign for president – immediately surging

Lawson visits South, Central America to examine agricultural capacity, impacts of U.S. trade policy

June 20, 2019

Special to the Outlook WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S Rep. Al Lawson joined a bipartisan delegation of members of Congress last week as part of a trip to review the agricultural trading relationships between the United States and South and Central America, as well as what downstream effects of changes in U.S.

Cosby’s publicist blames National Enquirer for drone

February 12, 2019

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent It wasn’t exactly an unidentified object that flew over the prison that houses Bill Cosby this week. Not, according to Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt, who noted the timing of the drone that was discovered above the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute Phoenix in Collegeville,

2018 was the year of Black voting victories; but voting lessons are yet to be learned

February 1, 2019

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire At this time last year, political observers around the nation were expecting a landslide turnout in the mid-term elections Nov. 6, 2018, demonstrating the power of Black voters – among others – to flip the then Republican-dominated House of Representatives. Ten months

Crump calls for ETS to release student’s score for consideration by FSU

February 1, 2019

Special to the Outlook MIAMI — Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump recently a demand to Educational Testing Service, calling on the company that administers the SAT to release Miami Gardens student Kamilah Campbell’s SAT score within two weeks so that she can be considered for admission

Cosby attorneys list 11 problematic rulings for Appeals Court

January 3, 2019

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent Bill Cosby’s attorneys are confident that there are significant legal (and more importantly, appealable) issues stemming from his trial last spring on aggravated sexual assault. The responsibility for what they believe to be problematic rulings and errors and oversight rest squarely on

Democrats Take the House, Win Sweeping Power in Congress

November 7, 2018

Gillum loses governor’s race in Florida, Abrams awaiting final ballots in Georgia By Frederick H. Lowe Democrats took over the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections, which will boost the power and influence of representatives Maxine Waters, John Lewis, and Elijah Cummings. Under the new order, Waters, a

Inside a Trump rally: What are Black Trump supporters thinking?

November 7, 2018

We went. We saw. We asked. By Lee Eric Smith, Tri-State Defender Memphis By now, no one should be surprised that Kanye West is a fan of President Donald Trump. It’s been months since he first posted a selfie wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, so the surprise should