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This week, police officers shot and killed two Black men, Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. In 2016 alone, police have killed 566 people in the United States.
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AFSC Iowa's Immigrant Voice Program gives young people the chance to tell their stories in their own way.
I was honored to be part of the awards ceremony for this year's Youth Video Contest, held by AFSC Iowa's Immigrant Voice Program.
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As the 2015-2016 Supreme Court session winds to a close, major decisions on just a few remaining cases are expected before the end of this month. The court has already made some huge decisions this term, including on affirmative action, the fourth amendment, and President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
These decisions will potentially affect millions of people. Here’s what we’re reading to make sense of it all:
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This morning, the United States Supreme Court announced that they were evenly divided in a four -to -four split on U.S. v. Texas, the case challenging a Texas court’s injunction on President Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration.
On Sunday, May 1, 2016, I attended the final day of the Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR) weekend in Pittsburgh, PA. I had attended two previous YUIR weekend events, one for youth in October of 2015 and one for adults in March of 2016.