Want a reminder that things are also going well in our nation? Enjoy this week’s new list good news!
- The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans will regain rightful control of a portion of their land.
- The Health and Human Services Dept. recommends easing federal restrictions on cannabis, a step toward addressing racial disparities in drug-related arrests and sentencing.
- People from Ukraine and Sudan can remain in the U.S. without threat of deportation through spring 2025.
- Five people face legal consequences for conspiring to blockade a Washington, DC abortion clinic in violation of federal law.
- CO: Reproductive justice organizations lay the groundwork for a ballot measure that would empower voters to reverse a prohibition on public funds being used for abortion care and to codify abortion rights in the state.
- MI bans race-based hairstyle discrimination in schools and workplaces.
- MT: Seven people who were arrested for protesting House censorship of Rep. Zooey Zephyr have all charges against them dropped.
- NV improves ballot access for eligible incarcerated voters and standardizes the design of mail-in ballot return envelopes.
- RI: 17-year-olds can vote in primary elections if they will turn 18 before the corresponding general election.
- TN constituents can continue to exercise their 1st Amendment rights in the statehouse after a court blocks a new rule banning signs in public hearings.
- WA expands access to legal aid services for low-income state residents who immigrated to the U.S.
- 182 years after fleeing to Canada to escape enslavement then forcibly returned to the U.S., Nelson Hackett is recognized and honored with a historical marker and a street named after him in Fayetteville, AR.
- Warwick, RI’s public schools implement new initiatives including outdoor lessons, individual goal and progress checks for students, and encouragement of student discourse.
- Former students who survived abuse while attending a private school between 1987 and 2014 win a $100M settlement.
- After being targeted by conspiracy theorists, poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are cleared of all unfounded claims of election fraud.
- Dr. Robert Bullard is inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his decades of work in environmental justice.
- The Orlando, FL community crowdfunds enough money to save one of the area’s last abortion clinics from closing.
- In what would be his final performance, Jimmy Buffett surprises local restaurateur Mike MacFarlane with a set of hits at his 50th birthday party.
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