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CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when the city reopened Wadsworth last year to shelter hundreds of migrants, without seeking community input, it added insult to injury. Across Chicago, Black residents […]
On a crisp Thursday morning hours before Desire Marea’s performance at the Transform Festival in Leeds, England, earlier this month, the South African songwriter sat in Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve, communing with his Zulu ancestors. It’s a practice he honed through his training as a sangoma, a traditional spiritual healer, and it is essential to […]
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, meets with Daniel Ellsberg who was responsible for the leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. The meeting was held at London’s Frontline Club following the release by Wikileaks of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army field reports from the Iraq War between 2004 and 2009. Robert Wallis/Corbis via Getty Images […]
ATLANTA—Jacqueline Echols gazed wistfully at the trees as she walked along a paved trail in the South River Forest, giving each one a long, lingering stare as if they might disappear before her eyes. “There’s so much life as it relates to the environment,” said Echols, the leader of an Atlanta preservationist group, “but it’s […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated Monday the state’s rejection of a proposed nationwide advanced African American studies course, saying it pushes a political agenda — something three authors cited in the state’s criticism accused him of doing in return. DeSantis said his administration rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement African […]
ATLANTA — The line of voters circled around the East Point Library on a recent Thursday evening, giving Dacia Davis, a 45-year-old human resources coordinator braced against the chill, plenty of time to contemplate the historic significance of the ballot waiting for her inside. Two African American men — Herschel Walker, a Republican, and Raphael […]
ATLANTA — The line of voters circled around the East Point Library on a recent Thursday evening, giving Dacia Davis, a 45-year-old human resources coordinator braced against the chill, plenty of time to contemplate the historic significance of the ballot waiting for her inside. Two African American men — Herschel Walker, a Republican, and Raphael […]
Media leak says U.S. court could overturn Roe v Wade ruling Abortion rights campaigners fear negative knock-on in Africa Anti-abortion lobby says West imposing un-African practice Unwanted pregnancies and backstreet terminations rife
A loud boom prefaced a streaking fireball spotted in three Southern states, scientists confirmed Thursday. More than 30 people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported seeing the exceptionally bright meteor in the sky around 8am Wednesday after hearing loud booms in Claiborne county, Mississippi, and surrounding areas, Nasa reported. It was first spotted 54 miles […]
PARIS (AP) — On the surface, it’s a powerful message against racism: a Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France’s Pantheon. But by choosing a U.S.-born figure — entertainer Josephine Baker – critics say France is continuing a long tradition of decrying racism abroad while obscuring it at home. […]
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