In seven Southern states including Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas prison labor is completely unpaid. Zero dollars. Not minimum wage. Not below minimum wage. Zero. And this week Louisiana just passed a law to make sure they never run out of workers. Louisiana passed a law making homelessness a felony. A first offense means 6 months in prison. A second offense means up to 2 years of hard labor. If you cannot afford your court mandated treatment you will perform unpaid labor to pay off you

A group of Israeli settlers attacked Israeli rights activists as they were conducting a tour near illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. . Israeli security forces arrested the activists.

“Can a politician punish the press for getting something wrong?” In 1960, The New York Times ran a full-page ad supporting the civil rights movement. It was called “Heed Their Rising Voices.” And yes — some details were wrong. Then L.B. Sullivan, a Montgomery, Alabama city commissioner who supervised the police, sued for libel. The ad didn’t even name him. But an Alabama jury awarded him $500,000 — a massive judgment meant to send a message. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And in

Speaking with the Congressional Black Caucus, House Minority Leader #HakeemJeffries called the #SupremeCourt’s voting rights decision “unacceptable,” saying it strikes a blow against the Voting Rights Act and undermines communities of color. #news #newsweek

We knew it was going to happen, and this week it did. The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. I wanted to share a few thoughts as we gear up for the fight ahead.

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