A seven-person crew within BLM Louisville cooks and delivers hundreds of meals every week to the elderly and homeless, and the group is also working to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among Black residents.
Evictions, hunger, wage theft: pandemic triple threat to workers
By G. Dunkel posted on May 11, 2021
It’s hard to put food on the table when you don’t have a home where you can put the table. The poorest workers in the United States disproportionately people of color rent their homes. During the current COVID pandemic, millions of them are at risk of losing their housing.
On May Day, the Laundry Workers Center protests wage theft, New York City.
Estimates on the amount of back rent currently owed range from $8.4 billion owed by 1.4 million households, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; to $24.4 billion owed by 14.2 million households, from the U.S. Census Bureau; to $52.6 billion owed by 9.4 million households, from Moody’s Analytics.
84-Year-Old Former Black Panther Still Seeking Parole After Nearly 50 Years in Prison
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Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther member, will go before New Jersey’s Supreme Court this year to seek parole after nearly five decades in prison. Acoli has been denied parole multiple times. He’s been eligible for parole for decades and has abided by all rules.
“You can have someone elderly who may still be dangerous in some rare cases, but that is not this man. I mean, he has not had a single problem of any kind in prison for 25 years,” Bruce Afran, Acoli’s attorney, told