ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 7 [Category: National Defense] -- The Association of the U.S. Army issued the following news: The Army's first mobile brigade combat team will be put through its paces in August as it heads to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Johnson, Louisiana. Equipped with new capabilities such as the Infantry Squad Vehicle, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)'s 2nd Brigade Combat Team is part of the service's transforming in contact effort, an Army chief of staff   more

PLANO, Texas, Aug. 7 -- The First Liberty Institute issued the following statement on Aug. 6, 2024: * * * Bill recognizes historic role of Ten Commandments in development of state law. * * * Baton Rouge, LA-- Today, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's office filed its opening brief in defense of a state law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and colleges that receive public funding. The following statement can be attributed to Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, and  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Aug. 7 -- The Association of Independent Information Professionals issued the following news: By Jim Miller The AIIP 2024 Symposium - the annual conference of the Association of Independent Information Professionals - was quite privileged to have former business reporter Sarah Glova as our Keynote Speaker in St. Louis, MO. Throughout her career, Sarah has interviewed successful people. She noticed a pattern in how individuals become successful. With a Ph.D. in Instruc  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Aug. 6 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following news release: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of ACLU of Louisiana Justice Lab client, Mr. Bilal Hankins, a Black man who was a teenager at the time of the incident. The published opinion sets a precedent in the deep south that there is no basis to stop and seize Black motorists without particularized suspicion and police officers will not be immunized when they do so. O  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following statement on Aug. 7, 2024: * * * Last week, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Petteway v. Galveston County that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not permit multiracial coalitions of voters to challenge racially discriminatory redistricting plans. The ruling impacts three southern states - Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. LDF filed an amicus brief in support of the claim brought by Black and  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 [Category: Political] -- The NAACP issued the following news release: Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $600 million gift to the endowments at the historically Black medical schools of Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, and a seed grant to Xavier University of Louisiana, which is opening a new medical school. HBCUs at the undergraduate and graduate levels   more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 9 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2024: * * * Two victims of police abuse had cases dismissed due to state's incredibly short statute of limitations * * * Today, the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced it has filed amicus briefs in two different civil rights cases out of Louisiana--Brown v. Pouncy and Monroe v. Conner--asking the United States Supreme Court to make clear that the state's use of a short statute of limitatio  more