A motorist who allegedly plowed his vehicle into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year was charged Wednesday with numerous federal hate crimes. James Fields of Maumee, Ohio, was charged by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia with one count of a hate crime […]
A top economic advisor in the Trump administration has blasted the president’s response to the tragedy in Charlottesville, and said he faced immense pressure to quit President Donald Trump’s team. Chief White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said in an interview with the Financial Times published Friday that the Trump administration “must do better” to condemn white […]
BOSTON — Police said they arrested 27 people Saturday in a day of protests in Boston, Massachusetts, where an estimated 40,000 people gathered, a week after a march by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, resulted in three deaths. Police Commissioner William Evans said the 27 people were arrested for charges that included assault and battery on […]
What people say matters. What leaders say matters. What the President of our country says matters. What Martin Luther King Jr., said, that people should not be “judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” matters. And defeating bigotry in all forms matters. As Alaskans we can do that. […]