A new anti-DEI law championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that goes into effect next year has resulted in the cancellation of a St. Patrick's Day parade. The city of Delray Beach announced that it was pulling the plug on the popular 60-year-old spectacle " as well as the city's annual Pride celebration " after it did a review of Florida Senate Bill 1134, which DeSantis signed into law and goes into effect on Jan. 1. Nevertheless, the bill specifically bars counties, municipalities, public contractors, and grantees from using taxpayer money to fund events that celebrate "ethnicity." DeSantis, a Republican and likely GOP presidential candidate, has been leading the charge against DEI for a number of years.
It took Alana Grant years to find the strength to set foot in the basement of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where her grandfather, the Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons, attended his final Bible study. Her fears have been replaced by gratitude and hope now that there is a completed memorial in a courtyard by the front door for the "Emanuel Nine," the Black churchgoers killed by an avowed white supremacist in 2015. The memorial provides a public space where "people can go and remember really what happened here," Alana Grant said as she and her husband, state Rep. Hamilton Grant, got their first look. On Saturday, the long-planned memorial at the South's oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church opens to the public.
Police in Peoria, Illinois, are investigating a "credible" bomb threat at a local plant and are urging anyone who lives or works within a one-mile radius of the facility to evacuate immediately. The Peoria Police Department said the evacuation recommendation was issued as a precaution while officers and emergency personnel investigated the threat at BioUrja Renewables. Police determined at about 6:45 p.m. local time Friday that a package at the facility was a credible threat and established a one-mile blast radius, officials said. Bomb technicians rendered the package safe at about 9:12 p.m. local time, according to police. However, authorities said a thorough search of the large facility was expected to continue into Saturday, likely until late afternoon. Officials said they were not treating the incident as a hoax.
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