March 2011
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Ex-cop gets 25 years in post-Katrina shooting
A federal judge has sentenced two former New Orleans police officers for their roles in the shooting death of a man whose body was later burned following Hurricane Katrina. Former officer David Warren was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was convicted of shooting 31-year-old Henry Glover without justification outside a strip mall less [...]
Report: African-Americans fall in equality index
CNN – African-Americans are faring slightly worse relative to their white counterparts than they did last year, according to an index released Thursday by the National Urban League. The group’s 2011 Equality Index stands at 71.5%, compared to a revised index last year of 72.1%, the league said as it released its annual report, called [...]
In its 40 years, Congressional Black Caucus has seen mission, challenges evolve
Washington Post – Forty years ago, the purpose of a caucus to represent African Americans in Congress seemed clear to its founders: to eradicate racism. The 13 legislators who formed the Congressional Black Caucus in March 1971 saw themselves as representatives of black people all over the country. Theirs was a role akin to civil [...]
Last Cabrini public housing high-rise coming down
Wrecking balls tore into the last of Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green public housing high-rises on Wednesday, beginning the final demolition of the once towering reminder of the city’s failure to safely house the poorest of the poor. The complex, which at its peak housed 13,000 people in a cluster of 23 high-rises, was hailed as a [...]
Extra largely black Va congressional district lauded as goal, but questionable in practice
Almost one in five Virginians is black, yet only one of its 11 congressmen is, and many of the state’s leading African-American policymakers would like to change that ratio. But creating a second U.S. House district in Virginia that would favor black candidates is easier to advocate than achieve, experts and some black lawmakers say. [...]
