Wedding of the week

It’s hard to even call this a conference championship game since Oregon really wasn’t supposed to be playing in this game. Washington was supposed to be playing USC but the Huskies were unable to play due to a team-wide COVID-19 outbreak. USC played an exciting game last week against UCLA and, as usual, USC quarterback Kedon Slovis put the team on his back. USC is going duck hunting this week. Pick: Trojans -3 … [Read more...] about Litwin’s Locks: Conference championship week

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — In the wake of last week’s violence at the Capitol, security is being increased across the nation ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration. J.J. Klaver, a retired FBI special agent joined Eyewitness News This Morning Thursday to offer some insight into what security measures we may see in the week ahead. … [Read more...] about Retired FBI Agent Gives Insight On Increased Security Measures Leading Up To Biden’s Inauguration

— Lex Scott, founder, Black Lives Matter Utah Both Scott and Sullivan say his involvement in protests began in June 2020, when he said he founded Insurgence USA to oppose police brutality following the May 25 death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. (Four former police officers charged in Floyd's death are awaiting trial.) … [Read more...] about BLM Utah leader disavows left-wing Capitol activist John Sullivan: ‘He has never been a member’

The White riot at the Capitol reminds us that King's warnings about racism's dangers to American democracy continue in our own time. This most recent assault on democracy has rightfully been compared to the rise of White supremacy during America's First Reconstruction, the fitful period following racial slavery and the Civil War, where efforts to guarantee Black citizenship, dignity, and voting rights existed uneasily alongside racial terror, voter suppression and Jim Crow laws that innovated racial segregation as a matter of local and state preferences, ungoverned by the Constitution. … [Read more...] about Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy demands truth before unity

In a way, I envy her brazenness. When deputies tried to pull her over, she continued driving home and refused to get out of the car when they told her they were arresting her -- behavior that would be unthinkable for many Black people. In addition, in the CBS interview, she said that she felt she needed to approach and apprehend the victim because she wanted "to do [her] part as best as [she] could" while the hotel manager was checking footage -- as if a mere hunch that a Black child had wronged her gave her license to put her hands, quite viciously, on him as he tried to get away from her. … [Read more...] about Ponsetto is much more representative of America than we care to admit