All posts on June, 2019

Acknowledging slavery and its legacy is first step towards reparations Thirty years ago, Rep. John Conyers Jr. introduced a bill in the House of Representatives …

PHOTO COURTESY OF MIAMI-DADE GOV. MIAMI (AP) — Rising sea levels could threaten the very existence of Miami and much of the rest of South …

PHOTO COURTESY OF G. FERGUSON WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Other than black churches, you could say this is the most important thing the black …

PHOTO COURTESY OF ORANGE COUNTY REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER ORLANDO, Fla. – Almost 100 years after July Perry was lynched by a white mob after a …

PHOTO COURTESY OF SPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Mary Graham Grant, an artist-inresidence, has been sewing sweetgrass baskets in the traditional ways …

WASHINGTON —The Democratic National Committee is launching the first round of its “Organizing Corps,” a multimillion dollar program it says will ultimately train 1,000 college …

By MATTHEW ATWELL WASHINGTON — The national high school graduation rate reached an alltime high of 84.6 percent in 2017, up from 79 percent in …

By BRENDAN TARNAY IOM / Central America Port of Spain – The growing frequency and intensity of tropical storms and other natural disasters have pushed …

ByTHOMAS DRESSLAR tdresslar@aclu.org WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of D.C., and the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP on …

PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA Dyer and Mina “supported, justified, condoned, and otherwise ratified” the officers’ actions through the agency’s use of force policy and failing …