UNCSA settles sexual abuse lawsuit for $12.5 million. Money to be paid to 65 plaintiffs over 4 years journalnow.com/news/local/unc… via Winston-Salem Journal

Exclusive reporting by Carli Brosseau and Sara Coello in 2021 revealed failures of a first 'investigation' into this abuse. Finally UNC School of the Arts admits it occurred over decades. Nothing will erase the suffering but at least those who experienced it are now heard.

A protester whose testicle exploded when an LAPD officer shot him with a hard-foam projectile has received a $1.5 million settlement from the city, his attorneys announced latimes.com/california/sto…

An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to U.S. Police Departments by delaney theintercept.com/2024/05/17/isr…

No one should be jailed for simply using or possessing marijuana.

Over at The Assembly, I gave a look at 10 of the 24 races on my list of ones to watch in the general election.

That listicle is available here--> theassemblync.com/politics/elect…

NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons wral.com/story/nc-senat…

We've been sort of teasing this for the last few months, but last week, the new online digital statewide magazine the Assembly announced their venture into the Greensboro area.
triad-city-beat.com/editors-notebo…

Eviction cases aren’t rare in Durham. But five cases are more charged b/c of the plaintiff’s family:
-Lorenzo Sr. former pastor, civic leader
-Leonzo pastors a large Charlotte church
-Loretta, former U.S. attorney general

Another great by Lena Geller
theassemblync.com/politics/court…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pardoned Daniel Perry, the man who wrote “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work” and then drove into a Black Lives Matter protest and shot and killed a protester because he felt “threatened.”

cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/…

Why Woody White Wants to End DEI at UNC

The Board of Governors member says that “your average white person, your average Black person, your average Hispanic—up until the last eight or 10 years, I don’t think saw skin color.”
theassemblync.com/education/high…

Charles McNeair, in prison 44 years for a crime he says he didn't commit, has been moved 7 times in less than 2 years. His supporters say it's punishment for the growing movement to grant him clemency:

Behind Bars But on the Move theassemblync.com/politics/crimi…

Greensboro is the first in the state with a policy on sexual acts and police.
Parlor Tricks theassemblync.com/business/green…

Jewish staffer resigns from Biden administration over Gaza wapo.st/3UYNYK2

Rev. Lorenzo Lynch Sr. was the patriarch of a prominent Durham family, his daughter Loretta a former U.S. attorney general. Now tenants of his derelict properties are mired in a legal dispute with the family. By Lena Geller
A Legacy in Limbo theassemblync.com/politics/court…