Nationwide — Attorney Zulu Ali, founder and principal of the Law Offices of Zulu Ali & Associates, LLP, the largest Black-owned law firm in California’s Inland Empire, has been selected “Criminal Defense Litigator of the Year” for 2024 by the American Institute of Trial Lawyers (AIOTL). Membership in AIOTL is by invitation-only. The professional organization is comprised Read More…
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Another major disaster for Georgia faces a week after Hurricane Helene
Seventeen thousand people were evacuated from the area, and around 90,000 more were ordered to shelter in place as an ominous smoke column loomed over the county and spewed chlorine gas throughout the week. This took place after scores of Georgia residents already reeling from Hurricane Helene have been grappling with fallout from another disaster Read More…
GREAT EXPOSURE: How did the nation’s poorest state spent federal welfare money
When Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to jail. But just over a year after she secured journalism’s top award for exposing how $77 million in federal welfare funds went to Read More…
Jaffus Hardrick: Florida Memorial President Resigns
Florida Memorial University (FMU) officials are huddling to determine their next course of action following the resignation late Friday of their president Jaffus Hardrick, Ed.D., who departed suddenly with three years left on his contract. “I am grateful to leadership, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the community for the success of our great university, and Read More…
LIGHTS OUT: The Party of Lincoln Is Long Dead
Keith Boykin Defender Republicans openly celebrate the Confederacy and anti-Blackness. Democrats delivered the first Black president, first Black vice president, and first Black woman on the Supreme Court.(The White House.) “Republicans are the party of Abraham Lincoln, but Black people are stuck on the Democratic plantation.” Please stop saying this. Every time someone makes this Read More…
Is Trump and Paxton A Disastrous Duo For Black Folk
Aswad Walker Defender Network Felon 34 times over Donald Trump with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,in 2019. (AP/Evan Vucci via Defender Network) Is Trump and Paxton A Disastrous Duo For Black Folk Former reality TV star and one-time resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Donald Trump, also known by his new moniker, “34,” shared with the Read More…