The 2012 World Press Photo of the Year ‘will inevitably offer conflict, chaos’ - BlogPost. Posted at 02:20 PM ET, 02/10/2012 Feb 10, 2012 07:20 PM EST TheWashingtonPost The 2012 World Press Photo of the Year is a photo most people hadn’t seen before today, or didn’t remember.
Concord: Filled with need. The church lobby turned cold quickly.
Heidi Fyfe, in her sixth year as a volunteer at the First Church homeless shelter, asked someone near the back of the line to close the door, but that wasn't happening anytime soon. Not with homeless people standing in the doorway and streaming outside, into the night, waiting for a place to sleep. Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68. Peggy Fortune, her daughter, said the cause was pneumonia.
The Supreme Court ruling, in 1967, struck down the last group of segregation laws to remain on the books — those requiring separation of the races in marriage. The ruling was unanimous, its opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who in 1954 wrote the court’s opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring segregated public schools unconstitutional. In Loving v. Virginia, Warren wrote that miscegenation laws violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. By their own widely reported accounts, Mrs. Mrs. Mr. The certificate was from Washington, D.C., and under Virginia law, a marriage between people of different races performed outside Virginia was as invalid as one done in Virginia.
After Mr. Judge Leon M. They paid court fees of $36.29 each, moved to Washington and had three children. The Best in Photojournalism: World Press Photo 2011 Winners. We Are Not The Dead: soldiers' faces before, during and after serving in Afghanistan. Photographer Lalage Snow photographed and interviewed members of 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland before they were sent to Afghanistan, after three months' service, and days after they returned home.
Their faces show the toll that fighting in Afghanistan takes on our troops. Private Chris MacGregor, 24 11th March, Edinburgh: “Obviously I’ll miss family but other than that I am going to miss my dogs more than anything. They are my de-stressers and keep me sane. I think I’ll miss TV too though. 19th June, Compound 19, Nad Ali, after an IED incident: “Most people get used to being away from home but I find it hard. 28th August, Edinburgh, after being evacuated due to sustained knee injury from Iraq: “My legs just gave up. Picture: LALAGE SNOW.
Susan G. Komen foundation apologizes for pulling funding from planned parenthood. NESHAN H.
NALTCHAYAN/AFP/Getty Images. After several days of blowback for the decision to pull grant money from Planned Parenthood, the founder and board of directors from the Susan G. Komen for the cure breast cancer charity has apologized and vowed to amend their rules. For those of you not following the controversy, news surfaced earlier this week that Komen pulled grants from Planned Parenthood because they were under an investigation by Congress. However, that investigation is clearly politically motivated: it is led by Florida Rep. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. The result is that Planned Parenthood will be eligible for future grants and the Komen foundation will fulfill existing grants.
The question remains, though, whether or not Komen's actions have irrevocably hurt their organization. In School Until Age 18. Raising America’s high school drop out age to 18.
No exceptions. Is this the magic bullet to help kids from slipping through the cracks? Casillas, 17, of East Chicago, Ind., works on some class work during her Language Arts class at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Ind., on Friday, Aug.10, 2007. This program puts kids, primarily high school drop outs from the ages of 16-18, through a five-month residential program with a military feel to help build their leadership skills, confidence and commitment to graduating from high school.
(AP) In 1970, the United States had the world’s highest high school graduation rate. Today, three out of ten American high school freshmen will not get a high school diploma. This hour, On Point: Raising America’s high school drop-out age to eighteen. AmericanPoverty.org.