By Newswise More than 1.1 million African American men are imprisoned in the United States, and about 500,000 are fathers. Many of their fathers also served time in jail or prison, and many of their children will as well. A new study by researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Social Work and Criminal Justice illustrates how incarceration is a […]
Police Training in U.S. Falls Short Compared to Rest of the World
By Danny R. Johnson – National News Editor WASHINGTON, DC–George Floyd, Eric Garner, Atatiana Jefferson, Dante Wright, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Laquan McDonald, and now Tyre Nichols — all are part of a growing list of people who police have killed. The latest disturbing death of Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers has […]
CA ranks 28th in prosperity despite pandemic, economy
By SDCN California ranks 28th in overall prosperity according to the American Dream Prosperity Index (ADPI), released by the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in partnership with Legatum Institute. The United States continues to see a rise in prosperity, even as we faced the long-term impacts of a pandemic and the economic realities of […]
HUD releases 2022 annual Homeless Assessment Report
By SDCN Washington, D.C.–The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Monday released its 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report Part 1 to Congress. The report found that there were 582,462 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2022. COVID-19 and its impacts on the economy could have led to significant increases in […]
The ELC to Honor CEO Marvin Ellison, Philanthropist Brenda Lauderback, and Target Corporation at Annual Gala
WASHINGTON, DC — The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), the preeminent global membership organization for Black CEOs, senior executives, board members, top-tier entrepreneurs, and global thought leaders, has announced that it will honor ELC member and Lowe’s Chairman and CEO Marvin Ellison with the 2022 ELC Achievement Award during its 36th Annual Recognition Gala taking place […]
A Culture That Slaughters Its Children Has No Future
By Danny R. Johnson – National News Editor The grieving people of Uvalde, Texas, a town in the Hill Country about 80 miles west of San Antonio, now confront the irreplaceability of life in one of its most ghastly and unnatural incarnations: the murder of at least 19 children and two adults, with several more […]
Omicron Shows the Unvaccinated Will Never Be Safe
By Danny R. Johnson – National News Editor The Omicron variant of SARS CoV2 has quickly upended at least three facts we thought we had established about the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the transmissibility of Omicron has shattered all previous records, including those set by the Delta variant, which briefly had been considered just about worst-in-class […]
Who’s got your mail? Google and Microsoft, mostly
By Newswise Who really sends, receives, and, most importantly perhaps, stores your business’ email? Most likely Google and Microsoft, unless you live in China or Russia. And the market share for these two companies keeps growing. That’s the conclusion reached by a group of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego, who studied […]
Do protests matter?
By Newswise Washington, D.C.–Recent protests in the U.S. over police brutality have attracted much global attention, but many scholars have found that protest alone is not sufficient to bring about policy change. Others have found that protests have a limited impact, such as on media attention or influencing Congressional hearings. So, can protest actually bring […]
The Rittenhouse Acquittal Opens the Door for Possible Mass Vigilantism
By Danny R. Johnson – National Political News Editor The United States is a nation awash in firearms, and gun owners are a powerful and politically active constituency. In state after state, they have helped elect politicians who, in turn, have created a permissive legal regime for the carry and use of firearms, rules that […]