The Archdiocese of Baltimore added 42 names Friday to its list of church employees who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse, including that of a longtime theology dean and professor at Xavier University of Louisiana, the nation’s only Catholic historically Black college. Father Phillip J. Linden began teaching theology at Xavier in 1991, after Read More…
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Why Do Inmates Not Try To Prosecute Abusive Prison Guards
Me: The day after I was released. Prove it! If you press the issue(s) once outside, you’ll hear those two words quite frequently. I was diagnosed with a swollen prostate while in prison. I was given a derivative of Flomax to take once daily. Fine. No problem. I did what they asked, and considering my Read More…
Six Decades after King’s Historic Speech, ‘Still a Dream’
The report exposes that in 2021, African Americans earn 62 cents to every dollar earned by white families. By Stacy M. Brown, Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a groundbreaking new report has laid bare Read More…
Black Senior Engineer at IBM Says That AI Empowers and Deepens Systemic Racism
Nationwide — Calvin D. Lawrence, a graduate of Clark Atlanta University, is a Distinguished Engineer who has been working at IBM for the past 25 years. In his new book, Hidden in White Sight: How AI Empowers and Deepens Systemic Racism, he reveals startling evidence of the technology used by policing and judicial systems that Read More…
Dad Upset After Police Handcuff 12-Year-Old Black Boy, Taking Out the Trash
Nationwide — Tashawn Bernard, a 12-year-old African American boy from Lansing, Michigan, was reportedly handcuffed and put into a police car by mistake as he was taking out the trash at his home. The incident has led to a public outcry, forcing the police department to issue apologies. According to ABC News, a police officer Read More…
When Mississippi Once Banned “Sesame Street”
Credit: Children’s Television Workshop / Courtesy of Getty Images. Since it began airing in the fall of 1969, Sesame Street has become an indelible part of millions of children’s formative years. Using a cast of colorful characters like Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch, along with a curriculum vetted by Sesame Workshop’s Read More…