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Follow Black Joy on Instagram (Minda Honey) These social media algorithms are giving anti-Black energy, but Black Joy stays thriving! We are less than 200 people shy of hitting our 10,000 followers goal on Instagram. This will be a huge milestone for the Black Joy fam, which has worked hard in curating a space where […]
Large piece of fat ham hock in black-eyed peas with collard greens and mashed potatoes and a slab of cornbread. (Warren_Price/Getty Images/Canva/Danielle Buckingham) It was 2014 when I decided I was going to become a vegetarian. I was in my junior year of college, and I was trying to commit to a healthier lifestyle. It […]
Several birds that live in and flutter around Pennsylvania could have new names in the near future. The American Ornithological Society announced Nov. 1 that it will rename North American birds to dissociate the animals from namesakes with problematic pasts. Several birds, such as the Townsend’s warbler and solitaire, are named after racists. Peter Saenger, […]
As a top student at his Philadelphia high school in 1968, Granderson Hale knew he stood a decent chance of admission at one of the historically Black colleges that typically sent recruiters to the school, where nearly all of the 2,700 students were Black. He had pinned his hopes on Lincoln or Morgan or Cheney. […]
FILE – Charles McCaskill, 68, calls out his thanks to members of the Mississippi Students Water Crisis Advocacy team who delivered two cases of water to his south Jackson, Miss., home, on Sept . 7, 2022. Jackson residents have a longstanding distrust of the water system because of frequent notices that the water must be […]
By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington 1 February 2023 Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Tyre Nichols’ death in Memphis triggered protests in cities around the US The death of Tyre Nichols has brought renewed focus on the issue of race and policing in the US. The 29-year-old died after a violent encounter with five […]
‘Shameful and inhumane’ – Black officers reckon with death of Tyre Nichols BBC Source link
By Levi Sumagaysay ‘Unions have been hobbled by the fact that they have been historically implicated in racial discrimination themselves,’ says former NLRB chair William Gould The Value Gap is a MarketWatch interview series with business leaders, academics, policymakers and activists on reducing racial and social inequalities. Today’s reinvigorated labor movement can . . .
By Levi Sumagaysay ‘Unions have been hobbled by the fact that they have been historically implicated in racial discrimination themselves,’ says former NLRB chair William Gould The Value Gap is a MarketWatch interview series with business leaders, academics, policymakers and activists on reducing racial and social inequalities. Today’s reinvigorated labor movement can . . .
Explicitly environmental art — works that address human-authored threats to local and global ecologies — did not appear until after the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the celebrated exposé of chemical pesticides, which made pollution an urgent national cause. Images of burning rivers, oil spills and animal casualties prompted 20 million Americans — […]