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By Alvin Buyinza
(WIB) – A nonprofit charitable foundation has spent six years partnering with a group of school districts across the country to develop a pipeline of “equity-minded” school leaders — and create a support system to help keep them on the job....

Jarvis Jay Masters, the 63-year-old death row author who caught the attention of media mogul Oprah Winfrey, is appealing his case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a lower court rejected his petition to overturn his conviction.
Masters, who has spent over three decades incarcerated for a crime he maintains he did not commit, argues that violations of his constitutional rights denied him a fair trial for the 1985 murder of a prison guard, Sgt. Howell Burchfield....

By Edward Henderson | California Black Media
As early as this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom could act on California Senate Bill (SB) 694, a measure approved by the Legislature that has reached his desk aimed at curbing what supporters call predatory practices against veterans seeking federal benefits...

By Daylan Dufelmeier and Mary Frances Phillips
(WIB) – There is more worrisome news for public schools across the country than the threat of closures due to frigid weather.
According to the Brookings Institute, “Studies document steep post-2020 losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and California. Research at the national level shows similar trends in urban and high-poverty districts, and a surge in both homeschooling...