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May 12, 2024 | 
blacknewsportal.com | Lisa Woelfl
Washington DC FKA twigs urged Congress to ban unauthorized use of AI to replicate her image or voice, as generative AI has been used to create songs and explicit images of popular artists, infringing on their rights and revenue. The post As some lawmakers look to regulate AI fakes, free speech concerns remain appeared first on AFRO American Newspapers.
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May 7, 2024 | 
somdnews.com | Lisa Woelfl
The coronavirus pandemic caused a historic drop in Maryland’s prison population. But after the state of emergency ended and prisons filled up again, the share of Black incarcerated people reached a five-year-high late last year, a Capital News Service data analysis has found. In March 2020, around 18,500 people were incarcerated in the state’s prisons. By summer 2021, there were almost 4,000 fewer prisoners. Never before had the state prison population decreased so dramatically in just one year.
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May 2, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Lisa Woelfl
WASHINGTON - Music artist FKA twigs is urging Congress to ban unauthorized use of artificial intelligence to replicate her image or voice. The singer, whose full name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, said that she uses the technology herself to engage with fans in different languages or respond to press requests.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
somd.com | Lisa Woelfl
(April 22, 2024)—In what advocates call the most important case on homelessness in 40 years, the Supreme Court must decide whether cities can punish the unhoused for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go. The case comes from the small Oregon city of Grants Pass, which prohibits sleeping in public with so much as a blanket. After three homeless people filed a complaint, courts have blocked the city from enforcing the rule.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Lisa Woelfl
WASHINGTON - In what advocates call the most important case on homelessness in 40 years, the Supreme Court must decide whether cities can punish the unhoused for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go. The case comes from the small Oregon city of Grants Pass, which prohibits sleeping in public with so much as a blanket. After three homeless people filed a complaint, courts have blocked the city from enforcing the rule.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
somdnews.com | Lisa Woelfl
The coronavirus pandemic caused a historic drop in Maryland's prison population. But after the state of emergency ended and prisons filled up again, the share of Black incarcerated people reached a five-year-high late last year, a Capital News Service data analysis has found. In March 2020, around 18,500 people were incarcerated in the state’s prisons. By summer 2021, there were almost 4,000 fewer prisoners. Never before had the state prison population decreased so dramatically in just one year.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
marylandmatters.org | Lisa Woelfl
By Lisa WoelflThe coronavirus pandemic caused a historic drop in Maryland’s prison population. But after the state of emergency ended and prisons filled again, the share of Black incarcerated people reached a five-year-high late last year, a Capital News Service data analysis has found. In March 2020, around 18,500 people were incarcerated in the state’s prisons. By summer 2021, there were almost 4,000 fewer prisoners.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Lisa Woelfl
The coronavirus pandemic caused a historic drop in Maryland's prison population. But after the state of emergency ended and prisons filled up again, the share of Black incarcerated people reached a five-year-high late last year, a Capital News Service data analysis has found. In March 2020, around 18,500 people were incarcerated in the state's prisons. By summer 2021, there were almost 4,000 fewer prisoners. Never before had the state prison population decreased so dramatically in just one year.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
cnsmaryland.org | Lisa Woelfl |Mathew Schumer
BALTIMORE - President Joe Biden pledged Friday to fight for federal funding to rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, promising to "move heaven and earth" during a Friday visit to the disaster site. "We will do so with union labor and American steel," Biden told a group of local officials and first responders gathered for his afternoon remarks at the Port of Baltimore. That morning, Biden's executive office had asked Congress to commit to fully cover the costs for rebuilding the bridge.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Hanisha Harjani |Christine Trudeau |Lisa Woelfl |Greg Morton
Nasir Mansoor has spent 40 years fighting for Pakistan’s workers. Whether demanding compensation on behalf of the hundreds of people who died in a devastating 2012 factory fire in Karachi or demonstrating against Pakistani suppliers to global fashion brands violating minimum wage rules, he’s battled many of the country’s widespread labor injustices. Yet so far, little has improved, said Mansoor, who heads Pakistan’s National Trade Union Federation in Karachi.
