By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS A powerful new documentary examining conditions inside Alabama’s prison system is drawing national attention and sparking renewed conversations about prison reform. The film, “The Alabama Solution,” recently earned an Academy Award nomination for Best […]
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By: REV. DR. ISAIAH ROBINSON, JR. Scriptural text: Deuteronomy 15: 4-45 ; Matthew 25: 42-35 KEY VERSE: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE POOR PEOPLE IN THE LAND. THEREFORE I COMMAND YOUTO BE OPENHANDED TOWARD YOUR FELLOW ISRAELITES WHO […]
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Mar. 10 commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, the 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 robbery.
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By Steven K. Ragsdale We have to say it aloud. Five Black surgeons now lead the trauma service at Johns Hopkins Hospital: Dr. Zachary Obinna Enumah, M.D., Ph.D., M.A., ninth-year resident and critical care fellowDr. Lawrence B. Brown, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., a seventh-year residentDr. Ivy Mannoh, M.D., third-year residentDr. Ifeoluwa “Ife” Shoyombo, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., […]
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A nationwide effort to correct a race-based kidney function test has helped thousands of Black patients gain credit for lost time on transplant waiting lists, improving their chances of receiving a kidney. Researchers say the policy change has increased transplant rates for Black patients without negatively affecting patients of other races.
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