Tag Archives: societal issues

[ad_1] CNN  —  Affirmative action is on trial again, and this time Asian Americans are at the center. The conservative majority US Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in two cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that challenge whether colleges and universities can continue to …

[ad_1] Kherson region, Ukraine CNN  —  Day after day, in town after town, a police officer and prosecutor go door to door in Ukraine’s Kherson region. Treading muddy streets, past homes damaged by artillery strikes, they look for those left behind. The two men form a specialist unit that’s traveled …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A theater on Broadway has been officially renamed in honor of the late actress and civil rights activist Lena Horne. Horne is the first Black woman to have a theater named in her honor. The theater, on West 47th Street, was built in 1926 and was originally …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The story of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King covering the hospital expenses for Julia Roberts’ birth has been a revelation to many, but it was just a start of a connection between the actress and social causes. The “Ticket to Paradise” star …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Parkland school massacre gunman Nikolas Cruz will be formally sentenced this week to life in prison – but not until the families of those he killed in 2018 have one more opportunity to face him in court. “You stole him from us, and you did not receive …

[ad_1] Washington CNN  —  The man who is alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could have federal charges filed against him by the US attorney in San Francisco as soon as Monday, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The federal charges …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving said that he is “not going to stand down on anything I believe in” after he was condemned by the owner of his NBA team for tweeting a link to a documentary deemed to be antisemitic. The star guard tweeted a link …

[ad_1] CNN  —  America’s toxic politics quickly turned the brutal attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband into the latest vicious partisan fight – even before the full facts are known. Police have yet to ascribe a motive to the attack on Paul Pelosi, 82, after a man broke into …

[ad_1] CNN  —  With just over a week to go until Election Day, a collection of Democratic candidates and supportive groups are willing to try a strategy that several party strategists acknowledge has not been very successful so far. They’re hoping a late rush of targeted ads and direct door-to-door …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Officials in the Jacksonville, Florida, area condemned multiple antisemitic messages that appeared in public spaces this weekend including a football stadium, highway overpass and downtown building. An antisemitic message referencing rapper Kanye West was seen scrolling on the outside of TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville during the …