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A journalist and storyteller focused on rural Black America 🌎 A daughter of the Mississippi Delta 🌻
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These USDA Programs Want to Advance Equity - but They Don't Ask for Applicants' Race

These USDA Programs Want to Advance Equity - but They Don't Ask for Applicants' Race

A group of white farmers sued the federal government last year over a $4 billion loan forgiveness program cre…

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The Government Failed to Help Black Farmers. These Women Created a Fund for Them.

The Government Failed to Help Black Farmers. These Women Created a Fund for Them.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's decades of discrimination against Black farmers has resulted in lost lan…

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Student Loan Forgiveness Is On Hold. What's Next for Black Borrowers?

Student Loan Forgiveness Is On Hold. What's Next for Black Borrowers?

A Texas judge this month halted President Joe Biden's landmark student loan relief plan, which aims to forgiv…

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How Gerrymandering Hurt Black Voters in the Midterms

How Gerrymandering Hurt Black Voters in the Midterms

A record number of Black candidates ran for seats in Congress this week, hoping to increase representation in…

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Why So Many Black Candidates Struggled in the Midterm Elections

Why So Many Black Candidates Struggled in the Midterm Elections

Several Black candidates made history on election night: Democrat Wes Moore became Maryland's first Black gov…

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The Black Candidates to Watch on Election Day

The Black Candidates to Watch on Election Day

The Nov. 8 elections have the potential to be historic, as a record number of candidates are running to becom…

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Meet Deidre DeJear, the Black Woman Hoping to Become Iowa's Next Governor

Meet Deidre DeJear, the Black Woman Hoping to Become Iowa's Next Governor

Deidre DeJear is used to being a "first." In 2018, she became the first Black person nominated by a major par…

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Meet the Rural, Black Voters Who Hold the Key to Georgia's Midterm Elections

Meet the Rural, Black Voters Who Hold the Key to Georgia's Midterm Elections

WAYNESBORO, Ga. - In the midday heat on a late September afternoon, Shamarius "Sham" Bolton, a 25-year-old le…

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Jackson's Not Alone. Water Crises Are Plaguing Black Communities Nationwide.

Jackson's Not Alone. Water Crises Are Plaguing Black Communities Nationwide.

JACKSON, Miss. - The historic floods that washed across southern Louisiana in 2016 left Joyce Turner Keller's…

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Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Federal Debt Relief Program Dismissed

Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Federal Debt Relief Program Dismissed

The class-action lawsuit brought by a group of white farmers alleging that a federal debt relief program raci…

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Jackson's Running Water Is 'High-Pressure Poison,' Residents Say

Jackson's Running Water Is 'High-Pressure Poison,' Residents Say

Tim Finch first heard about the "messed up" water in Jackson three decades ago as a teenager. The lifelong re…

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Mississippi Water Crisis Is 'Racism to the Umpteenth Degree,' Residents Say

Mississippi Water Crisis Is 'Racism to the Umpteenth Degree,' Residents Say

The water crisis that has left residents of Jackson, Mississippi, struggling to bathe, cook, and flush their …

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Why the Inflation Reduction Act Doesn't 'Level the Playing Field' for Black Farmers

Why the Inflation Reduction Act Doesn't 'Level the Playing Field' for Black Farmers

President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last week, drawing praise for shoveling billi…

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Teens' Period Poverty Activism Has Stirred Lawmakers to Action

Teens' Period Poverty Activism Has Stirred Lawmakers to Action

Stateline Daily Daily update - original reporting on state policy, plus the day's five top reads from around …

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Deadly Bird Flu Sweeps States, Straining Farmers

Deadly Bird Flu Sweeps States, Straining Farmers

Stateline Daily Daily update - original reporting on state policy, plus the day's five top reads from around …

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Parents Say Mask-Optional Policies Leave Out High-Risk Students

Parents Say Mask-Optional Policies Leave Out High-Risk Students

Stateline Daily Daily update - original reporting on state policy, plus the day's five top reads from around …

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More States Consider Bills to Prohibit Discrimination Against Black Hair

More States Consider Bills to Prohibit Discrimination Against Black Hair

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GOP Governors' Cutoff of COVID Benefits Hits Hard in Rural America

GOP Governors' Cutoff of COVID Benefits Hits Hard in Rural America

At least 22 states plan to end the federal weekly $300 as early as June.

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As States Push for Police Accountability, Advocates Focus on Black Trauma

As States Push for Police Accountability, Advocates Focus on Black Trauma

Stateline Daily Daily update - original reporting on state policy, plus the day's five top reads from around …

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Republican Men Are Vaccine-Hesitant, But There's Little Focus on Them

Republican Men Are Vaccine-Hesitant, But There's Little Focus on Them

Stateline Daily Daily update - original reporting on state policy, plus the day's five top reads from around …

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COVID Racial Disparities Loom Large in Rural Counties

COVID Racial Disparities Loom Large in Rural Counties

Many rural hospital closures have been in communities of color.

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Mississippi Failed its Residents During a Crisis, So They Helped Themselves

Mississippi Failed its Residents During a Crisis, So They Helped Themselves

When a winter storm knocked out water service to tens of thousands of Mississippi residents, it was Black fam…

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Families Say Athletic Bans Would Exact Toll on Rural Transgender Youth

Families Say Athletic Bans Would Exact Toll on Rural Transgender Youth

Stateline Daily Daily update - original reporting on state policy, plus the day's five top reads from around …

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'It's Patchwork': Rural Teachers Struggle to Connect in Pandemic

'It's Patchwork': Rural Teachers Struggle to Connect in Pandemic

Some teachers are hand-delivering reading material to students' homes.

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