On May 4, former Black Panther Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald agreed to a five-year denial of parole instead of insisting on a parole hearing, even though he has served more time than any former Black Panther still behind bars: 49 years.
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Flint Water Crisis Likely Increased Fetal Deaths, Study Shows | Huffington Post
Another hint that the U.S. ought to quit using lead pipes for water.
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In a superhero cape, he feeds the city’s hungry and homeless. And he’s only 4 | CNN
Austin Perine’s superhero cape glides and flutters as he hands chicken sandwiches to homeless men outside a shelter in Birmingham, Alabama.
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NC food icon ‘Mama Dip’ passes away | WRAL
“She was a great entrepreneur and loved cooking and the main thing was the love for her community…”
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This Ungoverned Haitian City Is Fighting to Stay Alive | OZY
Canaan is the story of what a shattered people can build with their own hands.
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Ellis Island Tea, A Family Recipe for Jamaican Sweet Tea, “Goes National”
Ellis-Brown is the only African American female beverage maker in the United States with her own manufacturing plant.
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The Soul of Solo Is a Droid | The Atlantic
Star Wars’ first woke robot, L3-37, speaks to the film’s revolutionary themes—and to pop culture’s anxiety around artificial intelligence.
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As He Heads Back To Prison, A Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ To The New Life He Hoped To Build | Nashville Public Radio
When a Nashville man named Matthew Charles was released from prison early in 2016 after a sentence reduction, he’d spent almost half his life behind bars. But in a rare move, a federal court ruled his term was reduced in error and ordered him back behind bars to finish his sentence.
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When the “victim” you fought for turns out to be the victimizer: Sherita Dixon-Cole and the painful consequences of a false report of sexual assault and police misconduct | Medium
Human beings and the decisions they sometimes make are a mystery though.
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The Profound Presence of Doria Ragland | The New Yorker
It should not be lost on anyone that, despite the pitiful shenanigans of her ex-husband, Thomas Markle, and the gossiping of her ex-step-children, Ragland flew to Heathrow to do what black women do: straighten the mess up.
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