First Black Secretary of State Fights For Lineage-Based Language In California’s Reparations Bill
Shirley Weber, the first Black woman to be elected as secretary of state in California, is currently arguing against the state’s recently formed reparations task force’s qualifications for eligibility. Like Sec. Weber, Leo Carney believes reparations should be lineage-based and exclusively reserved for descendants of chattel slavery across the nation.
Judge Sentences Two Madison County Men to 150-Plus Years in Prison for Drug Offenses
At the Madison/Rankin County Circuit Courthouse in Canton on March 28, 2022, two judges sentenced three people to a collective 216 years for drug offenses.