by News Headlines | Sep 26, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, News Current Events and Research
By MICHAEL PHILLIS – Associated Press RESERVE, La. (AP) — Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored...
by News Headlines | Sep 19, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines, News Current Events and Research
More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses — like stealing a hog — if they committed any...
by News Headlines | Sep 19, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines, News Current Events and Research
Earlier this week, an Iowa judge ordered a teenage girl who survived human trafficking by killing her rapist to pay the man’s family $150,000. Outraged, people around the country began sending her donations—and they’ve already raised more than half a million dollars....
by News Headlines | Sep 19, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines, News Current Events and Research
The banner which was hung from the Waukesha Transit Center. It has been edited to remove a website for the neo-nazi group. Photo obtained through open records requests to Waukesha Police Department. In the 10 months since six people were killed and more than 60...
by News Headlines | Sep 19, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines, News Current Events and Research
From record inflation to attacks on reproductive rights, to an unfair and inequitable redistricting, it can feel like all hope has been lost this year. But many voters are not giving up. My state of Louisiana has faced multiple challenges, particularly when it comes...
by News Headlines | Sep 19, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines, News Current Events and Research
The Woman King is a throwback to the sweeping historical epics of the ’90s, with a twist: Its heroes are all Black women. It stars Viola Davis as the leader of an all-female army, the Agojie, in the West African kingdom of Dahomey. The Agojie are reportedly the...
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