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(SRN NEWS) Mason Temple, the church in Memphis where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech, is getting a facelift. It will be upgraded with a 1.2 million dollar federal grant — part of a nearly 18 million dollar package for Memphis projects included in the annual congressional appropriations process. The package also includes three million for the restoration of historic Clayborn Temple, the staging area for the 1968 sanitation workers strike that brought King to Memphis. It was heavily damaged by a fire that investigators say was intentionally set in April of last year. Mason Temple dates back to 1945.
( ) A transgender darts player said he’s “not done fighting” after the sport’s governing body enacted rules barring men from playing against women. Noa-Lynn van Leuven (LOO-ven) of the Netherlands is responding to the Darts Regulation Authority’s new policy. The DRA has released a statement saying that it had commissioned an academic study of the problem of men competing against women and got a lot of legal advice. The statement adds that “As a result of its review, the DRA is satisfied that to achieve fair competition in darts, only biological females should be eligible to compete in women’s tournaments regulated by DRA Rules.
( ) Election races for local school boards — long ignored by both voters and journalists — have become big news lately. The races are hotly contested in many states as they have become forums for debates over transgenderism, LGBT books and religious freedom. The races have attracted a lot of attention in contentious districts in Wisconsin, Missouri, Alaska and Oklahoma. Those areas are all wrestling with questions of parental rights. School board elections typically have relatively low voter turnout. Until recently research shows that nearly 40 percent of all school board elections go completely uncontested.
( ) Last year saw the highest level of deadly violence against Jews around the world in over three decades, with 20 people killed in anti-Semitic attacks. That’s the conclusion of a new study by Tel Aviv University, which included a deadly attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Researchers say anti-Semitism has been up ever since the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. Two of the deadly attacks in 2025 took place in the U.S. In Britain, two people were killed at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The statistics are based on reports from police, national authorities and local Jewish communities.
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