Category: KOLUMN Magazine

— EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On Sunday, October 1, 1939, Sampson County, North Carolina Sheriff C.C. Tart arrested a young Black woman for helping Andrew Troublefield, a 21-year-old Black man, avoid being lynched. The previous day two white women accused Mr. Troublefield of assault. Without verifying the women’s stories, Sheriff C.C. Tart led […]

— EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On the night of September 30, 1919, approximately 100 Black farmers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a church in Phillips County, Arkansas. Many of the farmers were sharecroppers on white-owned plantations in the area and the meeting was held to […]

— Rob Frehse and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN)Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron Tuesday night suggested the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case could have made an “assessment about different charges,” in an exclusive on-camera interview with CNN affiliate WDRB. “They’re an independent body,” Cameron said in the interview. “If they wanted to make an assessment […]

Seven years ago Tometi helped to create what is possibly the biggest protest movement in US history. She explains what the critics of BLM get wrong, how her family’s story made her an activist and why she is certain the movement will succeed — The Associated Press, AL .com A new documentary is diving into […]

— Bram Sable-Smith, WPR/Wisconsin Watch; Martha Bebinger, WBUR and Darian Benson, Side Effects Public Media, Madison 365 When Robert Pettigrew finally saw the sign in August, he believed the “good Lord” had placed him in front of it. The sign appeared months after a doctor advised the 52-year-old to stop manning the front desk at Motel 6 as a mass on his lung […]

— Alison Durkee, Forbes TOPLINE The commissioner of the IRS—who is responsible for releasing President Trump’s tax returns to Congress—owns two rental properties at the Trump International Waikiki that he profits off of while in office, according to new documents obtained by a watchdog group in Washington, raising new questions about his withholding of Trump’s […]

— EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On September 29, 1915, the Alabama legislature passed a law forbidding a Black male patient from being treated by any “white female nurse” in any public or private medical facility. The Jim Crow racial segregation laws enacted and enforced in the American South in the late 19th and […]

— Ashonti Ford, Atlanta Black Star Black farmers once thrived, but the latest research shows a decline of more than 60 percent when it comes to Black farmers owning land. There are a number of reasons for this loss, including the younger generation not paying taxes on the land, families not listing the land in […]

— Jake Kanter, Deadline Samuel L. Jackson’s CBC/Epix slavery series Enslaved: The Lost History Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade has gone global after its premiere in the U.S. earlier this month. Fremantle has sold the show to 130 territories, including HISTOIRE TV (France), HISTORY (Germany), Movistar+ and RTVE (Spain), HBO Portugal (Portugal), BBC Earth (Poland), Discovery Film and […]