By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black With cooler temps arriving, America’s long, hottest summer of 2023 is now one for the record books. It was a season […]
Tag: Louisiana
Posted inClimate Justice
The New House Speaker Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black In 2016, the year new Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was first elected to Congress, there was major flooding […]
Posted inClimate Justice
Black Folks Get Factory Pollution, But Not the Jobs
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black The cause-and-effect (and effect, and effect) of climate change is abundantly apparent in Louisiana’s Saint John the Baptist Parish. Sandwiched between […]
Posted inOpinion
COMMENTARY: Redistricting is Voter Suppression Too
By Ben Jealous When Charles Diggs, Jr. won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at […]
Posted inHomepage, National
Report: Human Rights Violations in Prisons Throughout Southern United States Cause Disparate and Lasting Harm in Black Communities
NNPA Newswire NEW YORK – The Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms […]
Posted inHomepage
Study Finds Nearly 90 Percent of Black Homicide Victims Were Killed with Guns
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia According to a new and comprehensive study on gun violence, Black men, women, boys, and girls remain the most impacted […]