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In this 1921 image provided by the Library of Congress, smoke billows over Tulsa, Okla. An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage. (Alvin C. Krupnick Co./Library of Congress via AP)

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Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
By JAKE BLEIBERG - Associated Press
Sun,07/09/23-11:29AM , 76 Reads
An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage.
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Dane County Wis. Judge Diane Schlipper makes remarks during a case being argued by the State of Wisconsin which challenges a 174-year-old feticide law at the Dane County Courthouse in Madison, Wis. Thursday, May 4, 2023. Schlipper refused Friday, July 7, 2023, to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban, keeping the case inching toward the state Supreme Court in a state where debate over abortion rights has taken center stage. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

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Wisconsin judge: Lawsuit to repeal abortion ban can continue
By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press
Fri,07/07/23-1:17PM , 116 Reads
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's 173-year-old abortion ban outlaws killing fetuses but doesn't apply to consensual medical abortions, a judge ruled Friday in allowing a lawsuit challenging the ban to continue in the perennial battleground state.
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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach answers questions during a news conference about a new state law that defines male and female in state law so that transgender people can't change their driver's licenses and birth certificates to reflect their gender identities, Monday, June 26, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas. The number of people making those changes jumped more than 300% this year ahead of the new law taking effect. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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Kansas attorney general sues to prevent transgender people from changing driver's licenses
By JOHN HANNA - AP Political Writer
Fri,07/07/23-11:15AM , 172 Reads
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to force the state to be among a few that prohibit transgender people from changing their sex on their driver's licenses and to repudiate the Democratic governor, who continues to allow such changes despite a new anti-trans law.
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Essence, promoter resolve dispute that led to New Orleans event cancellation
Wed,07/05/23-3:19PM , 213 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A legal dispute that caused the cancellation of a local bookstore's event spotlighting Black authors during the Essence Music Festival of Culture held in New Orleans has been resolved.
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