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‘Dirty Dozen’ guide shows 95 percent of these fruits and veggies tested positive for pesticides

by Olivia Rosane CommonDreams.org The latest edition of an annual consumer’s guide published March 20 reveals that almost three-fourths of non-organic fruits and vegetables sampled contained traces of toxic pesticides while the “dirty dozen”—including strawberries and spinach—tested at levels closer to 95 percent. Scientists with the Environmental Working Group (EWG) document in their new report, “2024 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides In Produce,” that four...

Six former Mississippi officers sentenced for torture of two Black men

Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers, all White, were sentenced on March 19, 20 and 21, by a federal judge for their torture of two Black men in January 2023. In August, the former deputies—Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke, Christian Dedmon and Brett McAlpin with the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department and former Richland, Miss., police officer Joshua Hartfield—pleaded guilty...

Is Free Speech in jeopardy?

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Did the Biden administration violate free speech rights during the pandemic when they allegedly pressured social media companies to take down content the government considered misinformation?  That’s the case before the Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri. According to court documents the case is about a group of social-media users (Facebook and others) and two states who allege that...

The Law of Use and The Law of Abuse, and How Foods Affect Thoughts

Editor’s note:  The following article contains an edited distillation of the hour-long message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as Part 37 of his 58-week Lecture Series “The Time and What Must Be Done.”] Did you know that there is such a thing as a “Law of Use” and a “Law of Abuse?” According to law, “use” as a...

‘Don’t take the COVID-19 Vaccine’ The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan continues his warning at Saviours’ Day 2024

NEWS ANALYSIS “The government put a great hit on us in a vaccine and my voice was the voice that told you ‘Don’t take it! Don’t take it!’ They’re trying to kill us softly with a vaccine. Four years ago, we were right here in Detroit and many of us got sick. And that same thing is happening now in...

California voters pass proposition requiring counties to spend on programs to tackle homelessness

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California voters have passed a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis. Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years and a win for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who spent significant time and money campaigning on the measure’s...

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka delivers 10th annual State of the City address

by Yaminah Muhammad NEWARK—Surrounded by thousands of community residents and leaders, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka took the stage in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on March 12, to deliver his 10th annual State of the City address. Opening his address with a stroll down memory lane, Mayor Baraka reminisced about the beginning of his 2014 run for Mayor of...

Minister Farrakhan honored with Personal Power University’s Living Legend Award

CHICAGO—Personal Power University (PPU) bestowed the Living Legend Award upon the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan during the Night Of Power Awards. Rhona Bennett-Simon, a member of the award-winning music group En Vogue and founder of PPU, expressed the significance of the Living Legend Award, which was designed to honor those who represent the essence of the PPU community, embodying love,...

Cleanup continues in Ohio following tornados, severe weather

LAKEVIEW, Ohio—The three people killed when several tornados roared through Ohio in mid-March all died from storm-related injuries, authorities announced March 18. Darla Williams, 70, and Marilyn Snapp, 81, both lived in the Geiger Mobile Home Park in Lakeview, while Neal Longfellow, 69, lived in nearby Orchard Island. The two communities were among the hardest hit by severe weather that...

The Black Press celebrates nearly 200 years of publishing

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The year is 1827 and U.S. inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils. It’s also the year slavery is abolished in New York and the first U.S. newspaper, “Freedom’s Journal” owned and operated by Black people began publishing in New York City. It was the brainchild of Jamaican-born John Brown Russwurm, Bowdoin College’s first Black...