Alabama librarians are speaking out about a bill that could put them in
The book profiles every player who has played a competitive game for Finn Harps Football Club over the Donegal’s club’s first 55 seasons in senior football. All 628 players who featured since the club’s first game in senior football in August 1969 against Shamrock Rovers until the final game of the 2003 season against Bray Wanderers last October are included. Whether they have played just one minute for the first-team, or 485 times as is the case with record appearance holder Jonathan Minnock,...
Fetty Wap is sharing yet another picture from prison. His latest image comes with a message about finding “some good ppl” through a trying time. “You never no where life a take you but you find some good ppl along the way,” Fetty wrote.. “I got a few homies I met during my time down […] The post Fetty Wap Shares New Prison Image on Instagram, Writes About Finding ‘Good Ppl’ in Prison first appeared on The Source.
BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement. The lawsuits help dispel a longstanding narrative that racial voting discrimination happens only in the South or in
Lawsuits under New York's new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states
BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement. The lawsuits help dispel a longstanding narrative that racial voting discrimination happens only in the South or in
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature? Last year, he decided to do something about it and ran for one of the seats. Continue reading at The Republic News.
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature? […]
Some ideas about rights in preparation for reading How Rights Went Wrong by Jamal Greene
From Brittney Griner's memoir to Kevin Kwan's glitzy new novel.
Funny StoryDaphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s...
Charleston novelist Roger Jones will speak at a book launch for The Final Victory at 6 p.m. April 30 at the Charleston Library Society.