Friday, March 11, 2022

New superseding indictment filed against Marilyn Mosby

A new superseding indictment was filed Thursday against Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby.

The charges are the same; however, prosecutors added new evidence to the charge regarding mortgage fraud that prosecutors say strengthens their case against Mosby.

VP Kamala Harris: 'Any intentional attack or targeting of civilians is a war crime'

Vice President Harris on Friday said that intentional attacks against civilians are considered a war crime during a trip to Romania amid Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.

Black women rally at the Supreme Court for Ketanji Brown Jackson

Women from the Black Women's Roundtable converged on Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to support Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson and voting rights legislation that has stalled in the Senate.

Thursday, March 10, 2022

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations: Russia has committed war crimes

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said in an interview with James Menendez of BBC Newshour on Thursday that Russia has committed "war crimes" and that civilian attacks "cannot be justified."

Linda Thomas-Greenfield: You know, this is the question that we’re being asked every day, and we’re working with others in the international community to document the crimes that Russia is committing against the Ukrainian people. They constitute war crimes; there are attacks on civilians that cannot be justified by any – in any way whatsoever. I still see images of a women being rolled out of a hospital, pregnant, bleeding, people screaming, children crying. It is just unconscionable. And we call on Russia to change course. They have to end this conflict, and they have to stop the fighting, and they have to return to diplomacy. And we have made clear our strong support for Ukrainians’ call for this to stop.

20,000 pieces of African American history to go up for auction

For the past 60 years, Elizabeth Meaders has been assembling artifacts that document the entirety of the African American experience. Meaders' "African American History Trust Collection" features over 20,000 individual items. The collection is set to go up for auction in March and is expected to go for millions.

The auction will be held online at liveauctioneers.com and invaluable.com/ and conducted with Guernsey’s directly via the telephone at 212-794-2280 or written bids.