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Amistad Research Center receives National Medal

By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer The Amistad Research Center earlier this month was named a recipient of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service,

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Mass Shootings and Gun Laws: Canada does what America won’t

By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) – According to the Gun Violence Archive, 2022 has quickly become the year of Mass Shootings.

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Victim’s son tells Congress, ‘My mom’s life mattered’
By Ariana Figueroa Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — The son of a Black woman shot and killed by a white supremacist begged members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, June 7, ...
75% of Black Borrowers have student loan balances that exceed the original amount borrowed.
Despite years of payments, Black student loan balances go up – not down
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer Over half of federal loan debt held by borrowers with a net worth less than $6,370 With every passing day, urgency grows to cancel the nation’s $1.7 trillion ...
Pres. Biden signs landmark police reform executive order
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order on police reform that he hopes will help prevent excessive use of force and encourage officers ...
U.S. Senate Republicans block bill requiring agencies monitor domestic terrorism
By Arian Figueroa Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill that would require federal agencies to monitor domestic terrorism incidents, including those potentially related to white supremacy.
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Who is Sgt. William Henry Johnson, the recommended new namesake for Fort Polk?
By Greg LaRose Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — The panel tasked with finding new names for U.S. military bases that continue to honor the Confederacy has come up with its recommendation for nine ...
Pres. Biden to Buffalo and America: ‘White supremacy will not have the last word’
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — As President Joe Biden stood amidst the heartbroken in Buffalo, N.Y. calling White supremacy a “poison” in the U.S., historians and scholars of America’s ...
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. ...
If the Supreme Court ends abortion rights, Black women will be the ones most wounded
By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — As the implications of the impending death of Roe v Wade sinks in a week after a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked, one ...

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