Yesterday evening, the New Jersey state legislature passed a resolution offering “profound regret” for the state’s role in slavery, and saying that the legislature “apologizes” for the harm caused by slavery and its aftermath in the U.S.
New Jersey thus became the first state north of the Mason-Dixon line to apologize for slavery. In the past […]

Hopefully, the legislation needed to strengthen Alabama’s DUI penalties will pass in next year’s legislative session. Mobile County Senator Rusty Glover and two other southwest Alabama lawmakers, Marc Keahey of Grove Hill and Spencer Coller of Irvington, say they will work together to pass a bill next year. Their proposed bill would:

Establish […]

Xinhua and the All-China Women’s Federation report that the ACWF, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Justice, Supreme People’s Procuratorate, and the Central Propaganda Department jointly issued Thursday Several Opinions on Preventing and Stopping Domestic Abuse (关于预防和制止家庭暴力的若干意见). According to the articles (linked above) on the Opinions (the Opinions […]