Weekly Wrap 3.5.15: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 3.5.15: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

 1. The Feds v. Ferguson
The Justice Department’s final report listed findings from investigating the Ferguson Police Department. Charles M. Blow breaks down the report, including the facts that “African Americans are more than twice as likely as white drivers to be searched during vehicle stops” and FPD officers “frequently take actions that ratchet up tensions and needlessly escalate the situation to the point that they feel force is necessary.” From Blow: “The report read like one about a shakedown gang rather than about city officials.”

2. Female Company President: ‘I’m Sorry to All the Mothers I Worked With’
PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski offers up a list of all of the “infractions” she committed against mothers in the workplace — that is, until she had her own child. “There are so many ways we can support each other as women, but it starts with the just recognizing that we’re all in different positions at different times in our lives.”

3. Justice Dept. Will Not Charge Darren Wilson in Death of Michael Brown; Brown’s Parents to File Civil Suit
“They will sue the city of Ferguson and the Ferguson policeman who fatally shot their son, Darren Wilson. That news comes one day after the U.S. Justice Department released a report … [which] concluded that it was reasonable for Officer Wilson to be afraid of Brown in their encounter last summer, and thus the officer cannot be prosecuted for killing the unarmed 18-year-old.”

4. Fewer Women Run Big Companies Than Men Named John
New York Times’ The Upshot created what they call a “Glass Ceiling Index” based on a recent Ernst & Young report. As clear in the headline, the results are … depressing.

5. The Five Numbers That Explain the Case to Destroy Obamacare
“If the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell are successful, the government will no longer be allowed to offer subsidies to help Americans buy insurance in the states with federally run marketplaces. What does that mean in practical terms, and who exactly will be affected by the court’s decision? If the justices rule against Obamacare, here’s what you need to know.”

6. WATCH: Dancing Skeletons Teach Us an Important Lesson About Love
ICYMI: Watch this moving video celebrating inclusion and diversity. 

7. A Call to Prayer: Make Violence Against Women History
Get a free downloadable prayer calendar full of facts and prayer requests to help you put your faith into action to end violence against women.

8. National Catholic Journals Unite: ‘Capital Punishment Must End’
Four Catholic journals — AmericaNational Catholic ReporterNational Catholic Register, and Our Sunday Visitor — pushed out a joint editorial calling for an end to capital punishment in the lead up to a Supreme Court case deciding on the constitutionality of lethal injection.

9. Campaigns Are Underway to Get A Woman on the $20 Bill
Who would you want to see on the bill? According to the rule o’ money, candidates must have been dead for two years and be a recognizable figure. Check out the campaigns’ candidates here

10. Executions [to Stop] in 2015

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