Local Black farmers in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, one of the state’s largest Black American farming hubs, say they are being pushed out of their jobs by white South African farmworkers.
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UPDATE (Friday, May 1): Israel and Max Makoka were released from ICE custody on Thursday (April 30), according to their host mother, who spoke with WAPT News Jackson.
The Voting Rights Act, which has long been situated as “one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation’s history,” outlawed literacy tests and provided for the appointment of federal examiners (with the power to register qualified citizens to vote) in those jurisdictions that were “covered” according to a formula provided in the statute. Section 5 required designated areas to get federal approval before changing voting practices, and Section 2 mirrored the 15th Amendment (1870), banning the denial of voting rights based on race or color. Although the 24th Amendment (1964) ended poll taxes in national elections, the Voting Rights Act gave the Attorney General the authority to challenge their use in state and local elections, with the goal of ending Jim Crow’s discriminatory hold on Southern politics.
This Fourth of July marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of The Declaration of Independence in 1776. In commemoration of this historic milestone, professor, author and legal historian Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is spearheading a movement to designate the day following Independence Day as Martyrs Day. Envisioned as a national day of remembrance, Martyrs Day would honor the protesters who gave their lives in the ongoing struggle for justice and equality in the United States.
The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
Now two of Mandela’s granddaughters are reexamining her divisive legacy in a new Netflix documentary series called The Trials of Winnie Mandela, currently only available in Africa.
With costs of living rising, Shelly, a 65-year-old retiree from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and her 67-year-old husband struggled to make ends meet. Like many older Americans, both had significant health issues. But when the pair started receiving Social Security Disability benefits, their SNAP (food) assistance was cut, leaving them with barely enough to cover rent and basic meals. Before long, they could no longer afford their one-bedroom apartment and were evicted, becoming homeless.
Authorities say a former North Carolina law enforcement officer planned to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a major New Orleans festival but was arrested at a Florida hotel with a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Two seniors from Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications are heading to Washington after earning one of journalism’s most competitive honors. Christin Fluellen (left) and Jade Abu Bakr (right) have been named recipients of White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) scholarships.
Her struggle is not just personal. For decades, the federal government has helped build the Black middle class, offering a relative refuge from pay discrimination by providing transparent wage scales and codified rules on hiring and promotions. But the second trump administration has sought to significantly reduce that workforce through mass firings and repeated offers to resign. Government agencies have abandoned work they have historically undertaken and, in many cases, are being redirected to further trump’s priorities — from mass deportation to pursuing his political rivals — a shift that has forced many to leave their posts. These actions, done in the name of cutting costs, as well as promoting trump’s agenda, have saved little money.