Politics Archive
Inmate. Prisoner. Other. Discussed. What to call incarcerated people: Your feedback By BLAIR HICKMAN We received more than 200 responses to our callout asking the best way to refer to people behind bars. Of the options we offered, 38 …
Contact: Joyce Fitzpatrick 919-247-4400 joyce@fitzpatrickcomm.com For Immediate Release Daniel Green Files Motion for New Trial COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE RAISES SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS ABOUT LUMBERTON MAN’S MURDER CONVICTION IN THE 1993 KILLING OF MICHAEL JORDAN’S FATHER April 1, 2015 DURHAM, NC (March …
U.S. SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN ALABAMA REDISTRICTING CASE HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR NORTH CAROLINA’S REDISTRICTING PLANS In a win for voting rights advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court today put the brakes on using explicit racial criteria in redistricting. The 5 to …
I would venture to say most social workers have little or no knowledge about the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young Social Work Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1466) that has been sitting dormant in the House Committee on Education and …
Written by Jeff Gerth ProPublica, March 10, 2015, 6:28 p.m. This story was co-published with Politico Magazine and has been adapted and excerpted from the book “Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton,” by Jeff Gerth and …
I received a letter from Tom Silverstein responding to my blog post on solitary confinement read by his wife who then forwarded it to him. Silverstein has been in solitary confinement for more than 31 years, longer than anyone in …
How actively involved should social workers be in the political arena? This was one of the themes that set the agenda for Thursday night’s Twitter chat hosted by the Network for Social Work Management using the hashtag #MacroSW. The Congressional …
SCSJ Senior Attorney Daryl Atkinson appeared on HuffPost Live at 6:30 PM EST with Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and HufffPost Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim to discuss Michelle Alexander’s critically acclaimed book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the …
This afternoon, Wake County Superior Court Judge Michael Morgan ruled that a challenge to North Carolina’s photo ID requirement for voting will proceed to trial in July 2015. In ruling on the respective motions for judgment on the pleadings (where …
Many who desire and are willing to work towards a more egalitarian society are not by nature socialists. There are those who appreciate the free market system’s ability to distribute goods in society in a reasonably fair way but are …
