Haley Taylor Schlitz will receive her bachelor’s degree in May.
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Jeffrey Wright Wants the World to Know Uncle Nearest’s Contribution to American Whiskey | Esquire
Nathan “Nearest” Green, the slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey, is getting his first national campaign.
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The Curtis Flowers case shows why diverse juries matter | The Washington Post
Radley Balko, The Washington Post [dropcap]On[/dropcap] Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Curtis Flowers case. If you’re a fan of the podcast “In the Dark,” you know that this is one of the nuttier cases the U.S. criminal justice system has ever produced. Flowers has been tried six times for a 1996 […]
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The youngest known victim in New Zealand mosque massacre: 3 years old | Los Angeles Times
Associated Press, Los Angeles Times In this undated photo supplied by Abdi Ibrahim, shows a photo of his three-year-old brother, Mucaad, who is the youngest known victim of the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday, March 15, 2019. (Abdi Ibrahim via AP) Featured Image [dropcap]He[/dropcap] spent just three years on this Earth; but […]
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Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price | The New York Times
Once on the margins, older African-American artists are suddenly a hot commodity. They are relishing the attention while dealing with the market’s grueling demands.
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‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement | The Washington Post
Donna Britt, The Root Leroy Moton was riding in a car with civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death after the third Selma to Montgomery march, in 1965. (Horace Cort/AP). Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] the night of Feb. 18, 1965, black high school senior Leroy Moton was arrested for the “crime” of […]
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Supreme Court Will Hear Case of Lee Malvo, the D.C. Sniper | The New York Times
Adam Liptak, The New York Times Lee Malvo at a court hearing in 2003. Mr. Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad killed 10 people in sniper attacks in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Pool photo by Davis Turner. […]
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How Jim Crow Went to China in the Making of Big Tobacco | Truthout
Anton Woronczuk, Truthout A billboard advertising fancy cigarettes in Shanghai, 1948. JACK BIRNS / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY IMAGES. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] cigarette industry played a paradigm-shifting role in the rise of corporate power during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It drew on Jim Crow to expand globally, and revolutionized branding […]
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Donna Brazile Explains Why She’s Working for Fox News | The New Yorker
Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker Donna Brazile wrote that she is “excited to join the honest and passionate debate at Fox News about our future.”Photograph by Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Getty. Featured Image [dropcap]Donna[/dropcap] Brazile, who has twice served as the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, is one of the […]
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Meet Tiffany Alexander, 27, co-founder of a pediatrics urgent care facility in Birmingham | Birmingham Times
Ameera Steward, Birmingham Times Tiffany Alexander (Amarr Croskey photo). Featured Image [dropcap]Spending[/dropcap] long periods of time in a hospital with her mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer, gave Tiffany Alexander a love for health care and helping others. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “We always had a great medical staff [at Russell Medical Center in Alexander City, […]
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