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An Ohio man is accused of burning 100 library books on African American, Jewish, and LGBTQ history, sparking a public outcry. Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Beachwood library branch on Shaker Boulevard in Beachwood, Ohio.Google Maps The Beachwood Police Department said the man checked out the books in April, days after he went to the Beachwood […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones:We see Donald Trump running on this idea of economics, but enacting policies that are designed to stoke racial animus and polarization. He’s enacting policies to make it impossible for us to grapple with the complexities of this society.Al Letson:Hey, y’all, I have really been looking forward to this. Today, on More To The […]
President Trump has defended his decision to introduce tariffs on goods from other countries by arguing that it will lead companies to shift production to the United States, bringing back jobs. For German companies, which have been producing their goods in the United States since the late 1800s, such arguments ring hollow. Thousands of German […]
Alan Spears remembers visiting Gettysburg National Military Park with his parents in the 1970s. They wanted something educational, free, and fun to do with their only son, and the park was an obvious choice, given Spears’ interests — his favorite television show as a child was The Rat Patrol, about soldiers during World War II. […]
Mother Jones illustration; Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty; Regina Fleming Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. President Donald Trump’s second term has swung a wrecking ball at diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs throughout the country. Few writers seem better suited to […]
Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name Leo XIV.Leo celebrates his […]
Late last month, when two federal grants to the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana were rescinded, the Trump administration seemed to be following through on its promise to root out what President Trump called “improper ideology” in cultural institutions focused on Black history. After all, the plantation’s mission was to show visitors what life was truly […]
Join us on May 14th! Who Owns Black Data Vol. II: The Past in Danger Please join us for the second iteration of the Who Owns Black Data conference series, hosted by the Black Beyond Data Ecosystem on May 14th at Yale University. We continue our effort to gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, […]
A coalition of civil rights groups have launched a weeklong initiative to condemn Donald Trump’s attacks on Black history, including recent executive orders targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC. The national Freedom to Learn campaign is being led by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a social […]
Reporter Char Adams to Release First Full-Length Book Chronicling the History of Black-Owned Bookstores in the U.S. Because of Them We Can Source link