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After the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act and lawmakers moved to split communities, the path forward is clear. On the morning of May 16, people knelt to pray on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. It was already warm, the Alabama heat that settles in by nine and does not lift. Faith leaders went first, their voices carrying over the rail and out over the brown water. Then everyone rose and crossed the bridge.

When it comes to America, racism is so pervasive that you can lift any stone and find it. A prime example is political discourse, which is often so reactionary that it exposes prejudicial attitudes and beliefs people would otherwise keep under lock and key. Take, for instance, President Trump, who shared a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama, the former president and first lady, as great apes.

Apologies to Frederick Douglass for paraphrasing the title of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” As was the case with the Fourth of July holiday, Black people didn’t share equally in the holiday’s creation. We start with the origin of Labor Day. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. It was organized by the Central Labor Union, which later evolved into the AFL-CIO.

The simplest explanation for why dropping nuclear bombs on Japanese cities was not considered a war crime in 1945 is that the people dropping the bombs were the same people defining the rules. The United States and its Allies controlled the legal framework, wrote the postwar tribunals, and shaped the narrative of what constituted lawful conduct.

When SpaceXAI/MZX Tech first came to Memphis (2024–2025), the promises were narrow, economic, and framed as “innovation,” with no community‑benefit commitments. At the time of its construction, Elon Musk’s Colossus I and II complex was not just the largest AI data center in America — it was the largest in the world, operating at a scale multiple times greater than any other known facility.

Luis Manuel Aviles Roa was driving his car to the mechanic on August 22 when the Border Patrol pulled him over. Forty-eight years old, Nicaraguan-born, roughly nineteen years in Florida. In his wallet: a driver’s license, a Social Security card, a work permit, and a pending green card. DHS said he had entered the country illegally at some point they could not specify and would remain in ICE custody pending removal.

In America, many people live under bridges and underpasses, without a home to keep themselves cool in the summer or warm in the winter. Sadly, rather than embracing policies that uplift those experiencing extreme poverty, some blame them for their circumstances. And this apathy, like water poured on stone steps, has trickled down into the laws and policies that govern our society. Consider, for instance, that following Grants Pass v.

I’ve been through Aiken, SC, and never given it a thought. Aiken is in western South Carolina, where you’ll find the University of South Carolina-Aiken and the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum. Founded in 1835, Aiken was named after William Aiken, President of the South Carolina Railroad. Across the state, Aiken also owned the Jehossee Plantation and the entire island it was on. At one time, Aiken owned over 700 enslaved people, which would have made him the 5th largest slaveholder.

She said it into the intercom at 8:34 p.m. The floor was concrete. The overhead light did not go off. She said it again at 2:55 a.m. By then, the cell smelled the way a cell smells when a person has been vomiting into a metal toilet for six hours. She said it, according to Indiana State Police records her attorneys later obtained, between sixteen and twenty times across the twenty hours before she died. I need to go to the hospital. I’m throwing up blood. Ta’Neasha Chappell was 23. A mother. Black.

As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, some will deny that the government response to blackouts after storms in Gary, Indiana, and Memphis, Tennessee, has anything to do with race. Despite these denials, evidence points to a pattern of discrimination. In the aftermath of natural disasters like tropical storms and hurricanes, black communities are more often impacted by downed power lines, outdated electrical grids, delayed maintenance, and faulty energy systems.