Domestic Terror Arrests in Michigan Heighten Alarm of Rightwing Violence

By Barrington M. Salmon, NNPA Newswire Contributor In recent months, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, and several lower-level Trump administration officials had been warning about the danger posed by homegrown domestic terrorists. Those concerns escalated throughout the summer after clashes between protestors who were marching to remonstrate against the…

Nursing Homes Warn of Third Spike of COVID Cases Due to Community Spread

With COVID cases increasing in 38 states, industry leaders call on public health officials to ensure nursing homes have resources needed and for Congress to pass additional funding  WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living communities across the…

WITNESS FOR JUSTICE #1017 Words

Amy Johnson Minister for Sexuality Education and Justice I’ve been thinking a lot about words lately, and language, encouraged by the indomitable Rev. Dr. Velda Love in the Sacred Conversations to End Racism Fall Institute. I’ve been thinking about the characteristics of white supremacy culture, and how “worship of the written word” is included on…

Ethnic Media Services and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights host an important briefing on the early halt to the Census

The Supreme Court on October 13th allowed the Trump administration to halt the 2020 census count ahead of schedule, effectively shutting down what has been the most contentious and litigated census in memory and setting the stage for a bitter fight over how to use its numbers for the apportionment of the next Congress. One week later, Ethnic Media Services…