From the West Alabama Newsroom– Two Selma attorneys are warning people to beware of scammers — offering an opportunity to join a Black Farmers discrimination case. Attorneys at the Chestnut, Sanders and Sanders Law Firm in Selma — brought the initial Black Farmers case. Attorneys Hank Sanders and Faya Rose Toure have worked on every subsequent discrimination case and initiative…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Time is running out for farmers who believe they were discriminated against by the USDA — to apply to become a part of the billion dollar settlement initiative. “January 13th is the deadline,” said Selma attorney Faya Rose Toure. Toure is helping Black Belt farmers who believe they were discriminated against — go through the…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A $2.2 billion dollar USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program for farmers is currently accepting applications. The initiative is open to anyone who believes they were discriminated against by the USDA — up until January 1st of 2021. “Anybody who tried to get a loan with USDA and didn’t, they may have been discriminated against. They…
California’s reparations task force has approved recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for discriminatory policies.
A Huntsville synagogue has been vandalized with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti at the start of Passover. News outlets report that Huntsville police are investigating after the Etz Chayim temple was desecrated Wednesday night. Photos show at least two Nazi symbols on the exterior of the building along with religious slurs. A statement from another Jewish congregation in the city,…
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services says Alabama agreed to remove old ventilator triage guidelines that advocates said discriminated against the elderly and disabled. The state said the decade-old document was outdated and no longer applied, but federal officials expressed unclear concern. Alabama on Wednesday had more than 2,400 Coronavirus cases and 66 reported deaths. (Copyright 2020 The…
A white professor at historically black Tuskegee University says he’s suing the school, claiming he’s been denied the salary he deserves because of discrimination. Physics professor Marshall Burns says he hasn’t considered leaving Tuskegee because he loves teaching students. He says he gets an associate professor’s salary despite being a full professor since 1980. He says he’s asked for a…
