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Police keep a tight grip on public records—even those that the law requires them to share.
Parents claim Georgia’s guardian ad litem program permits improper conflicts of interest between guardians and the judges who appoint them.
'[W]hat good is Roe v. Wade to the South if people can’t access the abortion care they need?'
56 years after MLK led a march against Jim Crow in Kentucky’s capital, a new generation marches against police killings of Black women
Black sanitation workers in New Orleans have taken on a historic strike amid the COVID-19 pandemic, holding on to the resolve of the Memphis sanitation workers, on strike for over two months—until they won.
Let’s add prisoners to the long roster of groups for which we demand #mediajustice.
Creating a Black Workers Economic Agenda has involved close contact between Raleigh community members. Now that’s not possible, but the project is still going strong.
In Raleigh, the National Black Workers Center Project is “building a cadre of leaders to hold their elected officials duty-bound to the people’s agenda.”
After photo ops and praise from the press, Atlanta leaders reneged on a promise to end cash bail. Will the same happen to #DefundPolice campaigns?
“All roads to the White House are going to come through Georgia."
District Attorney Joyette Holmes has close ties to Georgia’s good-old-boys and history of fraught cases.
Baton Rouge has one of the highest diagnosis rates of HIV in the nation. COVID-19 has suspended HIV testing for many of the city’s highest risk populations.
The current debate about the NCAA’s responsibility to pay its “student-athletes” can correctly be called a referendum on race, akin to the political focus on reparations.
Although memorial day was instituted in a spirit of White reconciliation, it was actually preceded by Black South Carolinians’ reburial of Union soldiers from a mass grave in Charleston.
