It has been one year since Roderick Brooks was killed by a deputy in Texas, but his family still has no answers. Phillip Jackson July 7, 2023 Read the full article here Huff Post
The recent success of right-wing boycotts against brands like Target and Bud Light proves yet again that profit-driven corporate actors are never going to be effective guardians of inclusion and human rights. Luke Savage...
Tuesday was not a good night for left-leaning, progressive Democrats – India Walton, Matt Dearing, Eve Shippens and Kathryn Franco all lost – and lost big. Charlie Specht July 3, 2023 Read the full article here...
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration and asked, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass was a powerful orator, often traveling six...
Recent research conducted by Reuters has shed light on the genealogies of America’s political elite, revealing that a significant portion of members of Congress, living presidents, Supreme Court justices, and governors are direct descendants...
Recent weeks saw two terrible tragedies at sea. In one, five explorers died when the Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic. In the other, over 600 refugees—most of them women and children—drowned in the Mediterranean...
Florida is another step closer to paving its roads with phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill into law Thursday. Bill Chappell...
Young farmers should be our beacon of hope to avoid another Dust Bowl, capture carbon, and feed our population. But there’s a huge caveat: We have set them up to fail Katie Brimm June...
A battle is raging in the woods outside Atlanta. At stake are 85 acres of the South River Forest (Weelaunee Forest by its Muscogee name) where city officials and corporate bigwigs want to build...
Entering court using a walker, a doctor’s note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta. Michael...