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On Feb. 8, 1968, nine South Carolina patrolmen opened fire on a crowd of African-American students gathered around a bonfire on the campus of South Carolina State University (SCSU) in Orangeburg.
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When Jay met his foster parents, he was a balding, underweight boy who was afraid he wouldn’t be fed.
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Hillsborough is one of 17 Florida counties that has partnered with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in a new model for enforcing immigration detainers. Under a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA), the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office holds individuals for 48 hours after they have served their time on local charges, when ICE determines that they may be subject to deportation. In return, ICE pays Hillsborough $50 per detainee.
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Alabama had at least 152 prisoners with a “serious mental illness” in solitary confinement on two randomly chosen days in December 2017 and January 2018, violating a judge’s directive last summer for the state prison system to move seriously mentally ill people out of segregation “as soon as possible.”
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The ĂŰĚŇ´«Ă˝ filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after the death this week of Yulio Castro-Garrido, a 33-year-old Cuban immigrant who was detained at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga.
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​In his State of the Union address this week, President Trump congratulated his administration for having “taken historic actions to protect religious liberty.”
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Schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and the impact it continues to have on race relations in America, according to a study released today by the ĂŰĚŇ´«Ă˝â€™s Teaching Tolerance project.
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The National Statuary Hall Collection welcomes two statues from each state to be displayed at our nation’s Capitol to commemorate people of historic renown.Â
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday rejected the National Chicken Council’s (NCC’s) petition to waive all line speed limits at poultry plants.
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​Jamey Vibbert had owned his car dealership in Dothan, Alabama, for over a decade when authorities seized $25,000 from one of his bank accounts.
