Barrington Salmon Florida Phoeni Florida State University student activists in November 2023 demonstrated outside a university board of trustees meeting to demand divestment from Israel. (Christian Casale) Last year, a survey by the Pew Research Center conducted before the 60th anniversary of the landmark March on Washington showed that 81% of American adults believe that Read More…
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Is Jim Crow Is Enshrined In Florida Law
This Friday, April 26, the state of Florida will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day, one of three official Confederate anniversaries that linger in state law, relics of Jim Crow. I am not opposed to memorializing people who died in war. Do that any day of the year. Or do it on the nation’s official Memorial Read More…
The First Inhabitants Of China Were Black, Did You Know?
Historians, geneticists, and advocates of Afrocentrism have argued for years that the first inhabitants of China were Black Africans. According to Chang Hsing-Lang, who was a respected writer and professor in the early 1900s, there was in fact a Negro Empire that existed in the South of China at the dawn of the nation’s history. Read More…
Combating the Illicit Cannabis Market Through Federal Reform
The United States is in the midst of a transformative shift in its approach to cannabis.
DeSantis New GAG Bill Prohibits Citizen Oversight Board From Investigating Police In Florida
Police oversight panels run by citizens, like the one pictured here in Miami-Dade County, will lose all investigative power July 1. On the same day that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that would prohibit civilian oversight boards from investigating police misconduct (HB 601), the city of North Miami became the first to Read More…
Are Pay Cuts In Store For Caitlin Clark And Angel Reese?
Soon to be WNBA stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese (Sports Illustrated) Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have both decided to forgo their final year of college eligibility and enter the WNBA Draft, though there aren’t multimillion dollar WNBA rookie contracts awaiting them. Clark, Iowa’s record-setting guard, is expected to be the No. 1 pick by the Indiana Read More…