LaShawn Hudson

Friday marks the 161st anniversary of Juneteenth. Hundreds of thousands of formerly enslaved Black people learned they were free on June 19, 1865. General Gordon Granger, along with Union troops, arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced their freedom. The news came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

Several large crowds gathered at the Georgia State Capitol to protest against Georgia’s Republican leaders from redrawing congressional and legislative lines on the state’s political maps. Georgia lawmakers were scheduled to reconvene for a special session on Wednesday to redraw boundary lines for the 2028 election cycle, but have since scrapped that plan. Georgia Gov.

Otis Redding’s legacy lives on through next generation of artists Sara Mazanec is an Otis Redding Foundation All-Star. Although just 17 years old, she has been writing songs for some years now. Still, something was …