Nationwide — Caden Harris, an extraordinary 13-year-old African-American teen from Atlanta, Georgia, has achieved an incredible milestone by graduating from high school at a remarkably young age. This momentous occasion marks the beginning of a more ambitious chapter in Caden’s journey, where he is driven by […]
A Georgia police department has been under fire after it posted photos showing officers leading a firearms training session with targets plastered with images of Black men. The picture, posted in June, shows white civilians at a firearms training course in the west Georgia city […]
A suburban Atlanta college student says racism motivated a harrowing attack by white men that left him needing medical treatment last weekend. Jalique Rosemond claims his attackers called him racial slurs and ripped out part of his locs during a bloody assault in the […]
Arguably one of the most important Black figures in the feminist movement has died. Dorothy Pitman Hughes passed away on December 1 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Delethia and Jonas Malmsten in Tampa, Florida. She was 84 years old. Born in 1938 in Lumpkin, Georgia, Hughes […]
Prosecutors rested their case last week after only two days of testimonies in the stun gun death trial of Eurie Lee Martin after a former Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) agent skilled in “use-of-force” testified that the 58-year-old had not committed a crime that warranted law enforcement […]
A mother in Georgia said her 15-year-old son was attacked and beaten with a belt by a white man and the incident was caught on camera, 11 Alive reports. Latika Sim of Carroll County says her son Maliyk was attacked by an adult male who’s been identified as 29-year-old Matthew Martel […]
Few words are more heart-wrenching to hear from your child than “I wish I didn’t look the way I do” or “I wish I wasn’t my race.” Those words can spring from a variety of painful experiences: A taunting on the playground for having “different” […]
Some good will follow all the unrest and sadness that took place in 2020. Part of that unrest were the many protests against racist violence, which included the long-overdue downing of several Confederate statues and monuments across the country. Last year was also characterized by sadness for the many lives lost, […]
The Sultana Faded blue uniforms hung loosely on their gaunt bodies. Weakened by months of starvation, disease and brutality in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia and Cahaba, Alabama, many of the recently released soldiers that crowded the wharf at Vicksburg, Mississippi could […]
At a glance, it may look like many Americans have long forgotten about the dangers of coronavirus. Crowds packed beaches in Florida, Maryland, Georgia, Virginia and Indiana over the weekend — many venturing out without masks and others failing to keep their distance even as […]
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