“They killed themselves.”That’s how “A Sky Full of Elephants” by Cebo Campbell begins — not with fiction, but with a haunting reflection on how deeply systems fail when souls are asked to […]
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Last Known Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Passes Away at 102
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 102 on Monday, October […]
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OP-ED: Biden Needs a Reparations Commission for 2024
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Leaders within the Democratic Party in the last Congress demonstrated their political will for a reparations commission. 217 confirmed yes votes in the House and half of the Senate Committee chairs, along with the Senate Leader, and many of their colleagues, signed on to the Senate bill.
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Centering Education in the Reparations Conversation
By Maya Pottiger Experts say the injustice doled out to generations of Black people in the nation’s K-12 schools needs to be atoned for — and they’re taking their cues […]