In 1940s North Carolina, the racist system called “Jim Crow” oppressed every aspect of Black lives. Segregation and discrimination were enforced by racist courts and police, and by the violence of organizations like the KKK. Jim Crow also ruled North Carolina’s...
A little more than one week ago, on May 7, the dead body of the sixth and final worker who was killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was found amidst the wreckage. All six of the men were immigrants from four nations just south of the...
This month in Virginia, Shenandoah County’s school board began to roll back the symbolic gains of the 2020 George Floyd protests. The conservative board ruled 5-1 to rename two schools back to the names of Confederate military leaders: Mountain View High School as...
In the midst of a climate crisis of epic proportions, an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the rise of the far right across the world, and many other life-changing problems and crises, the Barbers Hill School District (BHISD) in Texas has decided that the...
On February 27, 1973, activists from the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) initiated a takeover of the tiny town of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The takeover intended to call attention to the oppression and miserable living conditions of...
