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The Cleveland Power of Sport Summit at the Cleveland Metropolitan Conference Center in downtown Cleveland focused on equity and inclusion in sports. Some of the speakers included Cleveland Cavaliers head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, and others who spoke not only about inclusion in sports, but inclusion in life as well. Cavs head coach J.B. Bickerstaff speaks during the...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Southern University Law Center is celebrating its 75th anniversary. The center opened back in 1947 to help provide legal education to African-Americans everywhere. 30-year faculty member and Chancellor John Pierre says Southern University’s Law Center started as an intimate school with only 13 students, now they have over 900. “You have to have the faith of a must...

The Suffolk Fire Marshal’s Office would like to remind citizens the Virginia Department of Forestry 4 p.m. Burn Law went into effect Feb. 15 and will last through April 30. Open burning with a permit is allowed from 4 p.m. to midnight only. The Virginia Department of Forestry Burn Law also applies to recreational fires. This is an effective tool in the prevention of forest fires. Debris burni...

Kade Law INDIANAPOLIS — Two Columbus East wrestlers guaranteed themselves medals and kept their hopes alive for a state championship with first-round wins Friday in the Wrestling State Finals at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Senior Kade Law, ranked No. 2 at 160 pounds, posted a 5-1 decision against seventh-ranked AJ Steenbeke of Penn. Law, who is making his third state appearance, finished third at ...

Focus The Biden administration announced today that 40% of federal funds for climate and clean energy initiatives would be prioritized for underserved communities – a key pillar of President Joe Biden’s environmental justice agenda, known as “Justice40.” About 29% of the U.S. population is eligible for those prioritized funds. The White House Council on Environmental Quality’s methodolo...

A congressional committee hearing this week saw legislators from both parties voice support for a national digital privacy law but debate split over how, exactly, it should work. Testifying witnesses expressed different views over whether a new agency is needed to enforce any forthcoming privacy law and whether private citizens should be allowed to sue over noncompliance. Some speakers also f...

(WGHP) — Sometimes our law is a funny thing. If you look at North Carolina’s constitution–all the way down to Article VI, section 8–you’ll see a passage about what disqualifies anyone from holding public office. And, right there, the first thing mentioned is that if you don’t affirm that there is a God, you can’t hold office. Essentially, atheists or agnostics need not apply when it comes to ...

Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday signed into law a controversial Gwinnett County Commission redistricting map and a new map for the Gwinnett County Board of Education. The county commission map passed the General Assembly a week ago after it was redrawn by Rep. Bonnie Rich, R-Suwanee, who drastically changed the map introduced by the Democratic majority of the Gwinnett legislative delegation. Redist...

Illinois recently joined a growing number of states by enacting tighter restrictions on the enforceability of workplace restrictive covenants – and financial services firms both in and out of Illinois need to start facing a new future. The Illinois Freedom to Work Act (IFWA), which just went into effect on January 1 and applies to contracts entered into on or after that date, establishes impo...

Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. “The gun violence spikes seen in 2020 and again in 2021 in many cities show the crime reductions experienced over the last three decades are fragile. Cities must have comprehensive strategies to create and maintain safe communities.” This is the thesis of a white paper published by the University of Cincinnati's Public Safety Research Center (available in full b...