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A black man who spent 26 years on death row for murder was exonerated on Friday after new DNA testing revealed he was not the perpetrator.
“I want to say many thanks to the many people who are responsible for helping to make my dream of freedom a reality,” said Eddie Lee Howard, who was convicted in 1994 of murdering an elderly white woman in Columbus, Mississippi, according to the Innocence Project. “I thank you with all my heart, because without your hard work on my behalf, I would still be confined in that terrible place called the Mississippi Department of Corrections, on death row, waiting to be executed.”
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Congresswoman: ‘We cannot condone the monetization of justice’ | Opinion
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
Posted Jan 03, 2021
U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman says Hudson County has had to choose between extending its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to keep people on the payroll or stay true to the promises it made to end its contract with ICE. File photo.Michael Dempsey | The Jersey Journal
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By Bonnie Watson Coleman
Nationwide, cities and municipalities are stretched in ways they could never have imagined nor planned for. With dimming hopes for federal aid in the pipeline, it’s forcing them to make difficult choices. Hudson County, not far from my own congressional district, has had to make just such a choice: extend its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to keep people on the payroll or stay true to the promises it made to end it.
Building the Beloved Community
After the civil rights movement, John Lewis moved from protest to politics. But he remained optimistic about the Black freedom struggles of the twenty-first century. John Lewis in Selma, Alabama 2015 (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
Random House, 2020, 368 pp.
In a group photograph taken at the White House of the speakers at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, John Lewis stands obscured in the back row. At the time, Lewis was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and, at twenty-three, the youngest speaker at the march. âYouâve got to get out
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Quietly evangelistic but restlessly questing, John Mayall played an inestimably huge role in shaping the blues/rock landscape during the 60s; not least through his nurturing of Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Fleetwood Mac and many more. After 2019’s female-fixated autobiography and decades of media focusing on his finishing school graduates, Mayall’s astonishing musical journey deservedly takes centre-stage in this stunning box set from the esteemed Madfish, LPs and singles (three stand-alone) joined by nine discs of previously unreleased material, including live sets and BBC radio sessions. The monolithic package includes a gorgeous 132-page hardcover book, which finds Neil Slaven telling this generous visionary’s story in forensic detail, plus a second book of fan club letters and correspondence, and assorted paraphernalia – replica posters, press pack and signed photo included.
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