Lawyers fight for everyday women bringing #MeToo complaints
Jaribu Hill didn’t opt for law school until her early 40s. She’d been a singer, actress, teacher and labor organizer before learning a college classmate had become head of a…
Harvard president sorry 13th Amendment comment offended some
Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow is saying he regrets the controversial comments he made invoking the 13th Amendment in referring to the university’s relationship with wealthy donors. The Boston Globe…
Winfrey shocks fundraisers with $1M donation for students
Oprah Winfrey shocked attendees at a North Carolina fundraiser by announcing a donation of more than $1 million toward the United Negro College Fund. The Charlotte Observer reports that former…
Parole board weighs release of woman in texting suicide case
Massachusetts officials are weighing whether to grant early jail release for Michelle Carter, the woman currently imprisoned for urging her suicidal boyfriend via text messages to take his own life.…
Woman accused of threatening to shoot up old school
Authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Oklahoma woman accused of threatening to carry out a mass shooting at her old high school. Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris says Alexis Wilson, of…
Detectives: Transgender woman slain, body burned in car
Florida sheriff’s deputies are investigating the slaying of a transgender woman whose body was found in her burning car. Media reports say the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the…
Brawl after high school football game involves hundreds
Police in Rochester, New York, say hundreds of people were involved in fights that erupted after a high school football game. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports that it took…
Over 70 arrested in immigration protest at Microsoft store
Dozens of immigration policy protesters have been arrested at a demonstration outside a Microsoft store in New York City. Police say they took 76 people into custody Saturday who blocked…
US civil rights advocate Juanita Abernathy dies at 88
Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, died Thursday. She…
Singer says opera’s Domingo harassed her, grabbed her breast
The glittering production was a high point of the Washington Opera’s 1999-2000 season: Jules Massenet’s “Le Cid,” about a legendary Spanish conqueror, starring a tenor legendary in his own right…