Maya Angelou Coin has finally be release. After a decades-long fight – and, to be clear, amidst enduring, egregious inequities – the U.S. Mint has begun circulating a new quarter featuring the late poet, author and activist Maya Angelou, now the first Black woman to appear on the coin. The Angelou tribute is the first in an American Women Read More…
Linnentown, Georgia destroyed a Black neighborhood. Now former residents want justice. Many who lived in Linnentown are urging leaders in Athens to pay for destroying their community more than 50 years ago to make way for the University of Georgia. Hattie Thomas Whitehead has fond memories of her childhood in Linnentown, a 22-acre neighborhood in Read More…
Florida White supremacist Prison Guards Work With Impunity In June, three Florida prison guards who boasted of being white supremacists beat, pepper sprayed and used a stun gun on an inmate who screamed “I can’t breathe!” at a prison near the Alabama border, according to a fellow inmate who reported it to the state. The Read More…
2YR Old Child Prodigy ISAIAH GYAMFI, A Genius Who Taught Himself how to speak Japanese: Isaiah Gyamfi, a 2-year old boy from Ghana, is getting international attention as a child prodigy that knows how to count in at least 4 different languages and how to solve complex math problems. Isaiah started showing extraordinary intelligence at Read More…
COVID-19 Vaccines in your salad? Scientists growing medicine-filled plants to replace injections. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Vaccinations can be a controversial subject for many people, especially when it comes to injections. So what if you could replace your next shot with a salad instead? Researchers at the University of California-Riverside are working on a way to Read More…
Water Drought in South Oregon and the Federal Relief Program, has contributed to the on-going ground water Crisis in the West. Kimberley Hasselbrink For two decades, the Bureau of Reclamation incentivized farmers to pump water faster than the resource could recover, despite warnings from its own scientists. This year, residents of Klamath County paid the Read More…
