Freedom Rider shares legacy of civil rights struggle through new book
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer For many Americans, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s played out in abstract, from afar, in a place of the country that was foreign to them. ... Louisiana House committee advances bill to ban hair discrimination
By Piper Hutchinson Contributing Writer Editor’s Note: Last week, a story’s headline in this newspaper implied that efforts to ban hair discrimination in the Louisiana legislature had failed. ... Costly auto repairs driving consumers into a financial ditch
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer New research reveals how costly car repairs are now ballooning into a new form of predatory lending. And just like other forms of financial exploitation, consumers are ... Why so slow? Legislators take on insurers’ delays in approving prescribed treatments
By Michelle Andrews Contributing Writer (Special khn.org) — Andrew Bade, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes nearly two decades ago, is accustomed to all the medical gear he needs to keep ... Report: America’s major cities pricing out Black residents
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — At the onset of the pandemic, there wasn’t a single state, region, or county in America where a full-time worker ... Payton Gendron just the latest to point up the never-ending hate crime peril
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist What’s almost as terrifying as the targeted murder of 11 African Americans in Buffalo by the alleged shooter Payton Gendron, is his age and ... Brown v Board of Education: When SCOTUS rejected a racist system
By Ben Jealous TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist The U.S. Supreme Court wasn’t always a threat to civil rights. Almost 70 years ago this month, the Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, ... No more apologists for Fascists
A racist and anti-Semitic illness infects America. This virulent ideological cancer, known as the “Great Replacement conspiracy theory,” most recently caused the violent deaths of ten African-American employees and ... Ghosts of the Confederacy plagues Louisiana’s Judiciary
“The racially biased origins of the Louisiana and Oregon laws uniquely matter here. Today, Louisiana’s and Oregon’s laws are fully—and rightly—relegated to the dustbin of history.” – Supreme Court Justice ... Critical race theory bills killed in La. Legislature
By JC Canicosa Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — The Louisiana House Education Committee rejected two bills Tuesday that would have made it illegal for schools to teach that people of any race or ...
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