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We’re going on tour! Ahead of the 2024 election, Capital B’s Black Political Power Tour will be visiting key battleground states to provide Black voters the information they need in the lead up to this year’s elections. Learn more now:
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Kanye West can’t legally sell his “White Lives Matter” T-shirts because two Black men now own the legal trademark.
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1/9 BREAKING:
@margoasnipe
here. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a decision that will limit abortion access and potentially exacerbate racial disparities in births. The impacts will fall disproportionately on Black women, who make up about 1/3 of abortions nationwide.
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🚨Big news: and are here! Local and national news for Black people, done by Black journalists. We are so hype and so ready to serve you.
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The mother of environmental justice was a Black woman from the South Side of Chicago. An audio docuseries is bringing her story to new generations of activists.
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5/9 It may also worsen the maternal mortality crisis. Black women are at least 3 times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, according to CDC data.
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Jada Johnson, 22, was a young mother whose life was tragically cut short when a Fayetteville, North Carolina, police officer shot her 17 times in the back. She died in front of her 2-year-old daughter and grandparents. Her grandfather spoke to Capital B:
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3/9 The rate of abortions among Black women is more than 3x that of white women. The trend, experts say, is driven largely by structural issues that contribute to unplanned pregnancies, including limited access to comprehensive sex ed, health care and adequate insurance coverage.
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The chronic stress of racism is slowly eroding at Black America’s health like a rock being battered by the outdoor elements, surviving the storms as the force repeatedly chips away at its strength. Here’s how.
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The University of Florida’s African American Studies program is one of its “fastest growing majors.” But the current government rejected an AP course for high schoolers on the same subject.
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley is reintroducing the Ending PUSHOUT Act to address the school-to-prison pipeline. Studies show that Black girl students are disproportionately expelled and suspended compared with their white girl classmates.
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Three-time Olympic champion Tori Bowie’s death from childbirth complications underscores the alarming reality that Black women are more likely to face the worst pregnancy-related outcomes in the U.S., regardless of socioeconomic status.
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4/9 Maternal health advocates and legal experts are concerned limited abortion access will have wide-ranging health and criminal justice implications, fearing those who seek them out will be disproportionately criminalized and increasingly at risk of negative health outcomes.
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JOB ALERT! We’re looking for a copy editor to join our team. You’ll be responsible for editing and fact-checking our stories, graphics, and social media content, ensuring clarity and consistency. This is a remote position. Apply today:
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6/9 It’s now up to individual states to allow, restrict, or deny abortion access altogether. More than a dozen have “trigger laws” that now automatically ban abortion with Roe overturned. Many are Southern states where Black women are also disproportionately likely to live.
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Basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir about her incarceration in Russia that is scheduled for release next spring (
@AP
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In 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville was featured in “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Today, residents are fighting to save its land.
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2/9 The opinion, released Friday morning, solidified a leaked 98-page draft opinion obtained by Politico in May. The document raised alarms that the court would strike down the 1973 Roe ruling, which guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion, this summer.
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80 percent of Black women develop fibroids by age 50, and the medical community has few answers as to why.
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Louisiana is one of 11 states that elects officials to regulate energy companies. In a Q&A, Davante Lewis, the state’s new regulator and first Black LGBTQ elected official, explained his clean energy vision to protect Louisiana’s environment and residents.
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Today there was another reported bomb threat at Spelman College, part of a wave of threats targeting numerous HBCU’s this month.
@kenyathehunter
looks at how these threats highlight the long history of obstructing Black people’s access to knowledge.
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7/9 Black Americans’ views on abortion access have shifted over the years. Now, according to the Pew Research Center, about two-thirds of Black adults believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
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“...I can still smell the smoke…the burning,” Fletcher told
@19thnews
. “I remember the bodies. All the Black bodies in the street. The sound of the guns…they didn’t stop — I can still hear them...I can’t forget that...you can’t. It doesn’t go away.
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“When you talk about poverty in our communities, it’s because we don’t have access to land, and when we do, people want to take it away,” said
@Bakari_Sellers
.
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The mother of environmental justice was a Black woman from the South Side of Chicago. An audio docuseries is bringing her story to new generations of activists.
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Kansas City MO police denied claims that a serial killer was targeting Black women.
@KCDefender
covered the story anyway. A month later, a woman said she had been kidnapped and raped. We spoke with the site's founder about sticking with the story:
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U.S. energy companies are doubling down on the use of natural gas. In Brooklyn, Black elders are fighting back. “Help us put solar panels on the roofs, give us windmills — let us be self-sustaining, so we don’t have to depend on their gas and oil.”
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8/9 A strong Black anti-abortion movement continues to exist.
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Hi, national health reporter
@margoasnipe
here. I’ve spent a year investigating how Georgia’s maternal care system is failing Black residents and found that the state’s rural Black communities have been ignored for decades, making deliveries dangerous.
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Activists say they’ve organized a campaign resulting in more than 1,250 ethics complaints filed by Minneapolis residents against the mayor related to the handling of the Locke shooting.
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During our launch event, we hosted a panel about eviction. U.S. Rep
@AyannaPressley
shared her experience growing up with the fear of eviction present throughout her childhood.
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Some Black communities argue the dollar stores (Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar) stifle economic growth and job creation, and exacerbate food insecurity.
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And shout to our friends at
@scalawagmag
,
@MLK50Memphis
, and
@MSTODAYnews
for their top tier coverage of the South.
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What happened when Los Angeles schools replaced some of their police officers with mental health counselors?
@aarickawash
finds out:
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Josephine Wright, the Black woman who fought to keep her land in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, has passed away. You can read more of her story here:
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“Racism is foundational in our nation’s history, and yet many people are in staunch denial of its continued existence and profoundly negative impacts on the health and well-being of our nation,” said Dr. Camara Jones.
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Say hi to our other co-founder, Chief Audience Officer,
@akoto_oa
. She’s responsible for overall strategy + our community/audience engagement efforts. She says, “I’m working in my dream newsroom and it makes me smile every day.” Read more about Akoto here:
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The reparations fight isn’t over. From California to Atlanta’s Fulton County, the past few months have been full of developments and backlash — proving that the movement is showing no signs of slowing down.
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🧵 It’s Election Day Eve, and Capital B has you covered on the most important races for Black voters across the country. Here’s just a taste of what we’ll be watching tomorrow:
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Damar Hamlin, Buffalo Bills safety, visited Capitol Hill to push lawmakers for better school access to AEDs. “For schools that have AEDs, the survival rate for the children from sudden cardiac arrest is seven times higher.” (
@HuffPost
)
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Judge
#KetanjiBrownJackson
confirmed! Now is a good time to reshare one of our favorite pieces from the nomination coverage:
@emarvelous
at
@19thnews
on the sisterhood that sustained Jackson throughout her career.
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"I believe the thread between the two tragedies is the dehumanization of Black people in this country.”
Two years after George Floyd’s killing, Black residents of Buffalo find common threads between the supermarket shooting and Floyd's death, from
@npr
:
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“I just want to make sure that I’m pushing my colleagues to pass legislation that Floridians actually care about.” - Florida state Rep.
@AngieNixon
. Read our Q+A with her here ⬇️
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Big news: Capital B is headed to Gary, Indiana! The city will be the location of our second local newsroom, and we could not be more excited. More about
@capitalb_gary
and how you can help:
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Keith Cooper will receive $7.5 million in a settlement with the city of Elkhart, Ind., and with former police officers after spending 8 years in prison. He was wrongfully convicted of an armed robbery. From
@propublica
and
@sbtribune
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Capital B is excited to announce the addition of two editorial leaders to guide our expanding newsrooms. Dalila-Johari Paul has joined as national editor, and Adeshina Emmanuel will join in April as managing editor of local.
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Today we’d like you to meet
@margoasnipe
, our national health reporter. She covers the health disparities that impact Black communities across the US. Margo tells us that her favorite storytellers are her sources. Read more about why:
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Three-time Olympic champion Tori Bowie’s death from childbirth complications underscores the alarming reality that Black women are more likely to face the worst pregnancy-related outcomes in the U.S., despite socioeconomic status.
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Hi, health & criminal justice reporters
@margoasnipe
&
@ChrisCarrega
here. We’re working on a story to help those struggling with the decision to watch Tyre Nichols' assault when it’s posted. Before we get back to work, we have two things to share:
First, it's OK not to watch.
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Kanye West can’t legally sell his “White Lives Matter” T-shirts because two Black men now own the legal trademark.
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Black children are three times more likely than white children to have elevated blood lead levels because of deteriorating water systems in their communities.
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Maya Cade, creator and curator of the Black Film Archive, talks about Black resistance in film.
(Via
@NPR
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A 36-year-old white man was arrested for killing a 13-year-old Black child in Columbus, OH. After he told the police he shot Sinzae Reed in self-defense, the charges against him were dismissed. Months later, the shooter remains free.
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Black women had the largest increase in maternal mortality from 2020 to 2021, and their death rate due to pregnancy-related causes was nearly three times higher than that of white women. Experts say they are not surprised.
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Start with this powerful welcome from our co-founders,
@laurenwilliams
and
@akoto_oa
. If you want to know why Capital B exists in this moment and the traditions we’re building on, take this piece in. Consider this your Capital B orientation.
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Eight years after the crisis first gained national attention, there are still homes in Flint, MI, without access to clean drinking water. What does this mean for communities in the majority-Black city?
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Viola Fletcher, known affectionately by her community and family as “Mother Fletcher,” might have only been 7 years old the night the attack on Greenwood began, but she remembers everything.
@19thnews
interviewed her as she released her memoir
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Roughly 80% of Black Americans across the country have been exposed to extreme heat, according to Capital B’s analysis of the heat index, a measure that combines air temperature with humidity to provide a number for what the temperature feels like.
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For nearly a decade, Black residents in Flint, Michigan, have struggled through a water crisis that experts have attributed to ineptitude by former Gov. Rick Snyder and several other officials. Today, the state AG office officially dropped its investigation of those officials. 🧵
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1/👋🏾
@margoasnipe
here, health reporter at
@CapitalBNews
. In my reporting, conversations around Black maternal health are often separate from those about access to reproductive health care + abortion. 🧵
Experts have been saying for years that it's all connected.
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Brittany Martin is serving a four year prison sentence for comments she made during a protest in 2020. She's endured unthinkable atrocities while incarcerated, including sexual assault, giving birth while incarcerated, and forcibly having her hair cut off.
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Join us for “The Power of Black Stories,” our two-day launch event, where we’ll discuss the impact of Black narratives in policy, activism, and entertainment.
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Capital B traveled to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee to talk to Black residents about the impact of the water crisis. These are their stories:
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Black farmers who joined the fast-growing industrial hemp industry say they've suffered financial losses due to factors like high labor costs. But they still see promise in the industry.
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“If we ignore what’s happening in Tennessee or Mississippi or Alabama, we, as a country, are going to continue to suffer,” says
@Justinjpearson
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Judge
#KetanjiBrownJackson
was brought to tears as
@CoryBooker
gives her reassurance that she belongs here and is deserving of her position.
"I'm sorry you're a person that is so much more than your race and gender...it's hard for me not to look at you and not see my mom."
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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, New York AG Letitia James, and Fulton County DA Fani Willis are at the forefront of prosecution efforts against the former president.
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🎂🎉 It’s Capital B’s second birthday! 🎂🎉 YOUR support has made it possible for us to connect with Black communities across the country and tell almost 1,000 (!) stories. And we aren’t done yet.
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When something is as ubiquitous as discrimination, it becomes familiar, and what is familiar quickly becomes so ordinary as to be almost invisible. That’s why discrimination is regularly dismissed, even by those affected by it. Published w/
@voxdotcom
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No charges were filed against officers who shot Jada Johnson 17 times in her own home, killing the young mother. In cases like Johnson’s, it’s rare to see officers face accountability. Here’s why:
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The maternal mortality rate for Black women in Mississippi rose 25 percent, while the rate for white women has dropped (via
@AP
)
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Hi,
@aallyahpatrice
here. In June, I wrote about Josephine Wright, a 93-year-old who faced alleged intimidation and a lawsuit for not selling her land.
Now, Tyler Perry is working to build her a 5-bedroom home, according to her granddaughter.
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On Thursday, Biden announced that two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner was on her way home. Black queer folks have been leading the advocacy for Griner's release since the news of her detention broke earlier this year.
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Twitter friends: In case we are not here for much longer, here's where to keep up with us:
- our newsletter
- on Instagram
@capitalbnews
and
@capitalbatl
- on Apple News
- at
- at
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Cheri Beasley was North Carolina's first Black, female chief justice. Can she become the state's first Black U.S. senator, too? In this Q&A with
@margoasnipe
, she shares why she believes the answer is yes:
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Daniel Taylor was wrongly convicted of a double murder and spent more than half his life in prison. His false confession, which was produced under duress, was used and he spent decades in jail.
@smmills1960
of
@propublica
followed the case for years:
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🎾 On this day in history, tennis legend Arthur Ashe became the first ever Black man to win Wimbledon. 🎾
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Happy birthday to author and activist James Baldwin, who would have been 99 today. Here's one of our favorite quotes from the legend, but it was hard to pick just one. Drop your favorite Baldwin quote in the comments.
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Black smokers develop lung cancer younger than white smokers even if they smoke fewer cigarettes. New guidelines will make 8 million more Americans eligible for screening, but experts say the change won't close the racial disparity in lung cancer outcomes.
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NEWS: Today, the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a proposal requiring water utilities nationwide to replace all of their lead pipes. The proposal lowers the legal limits of how much lead can be found in drinking water & requires greater oversight of water utilities.
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2022 was a big year for us — we launched, hired a great 20+ person team, and published more than 400 stories. We’re going to take the rest of the year off to recharge. But before we go…
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Patrick Braxton is the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama—a majority-Black town that hasn’t has elections for 60 years. He's been locked out of the town hall by the town's white leaders, fought fires alone, and been followed by a drone, he says.
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A Black reporter for The Wall Street Journal was detained by the Phoenix Police Department after reporting outside of a Chase Bank. (Via
@NPR
)
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Jamaica is working to split with the monarchy and remove King Charles as head of state as his coronation looms. From
@CBCNews
:
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Some scholars suggest as many as 1,200 historic Black towns were established in the 19th and 20th centuries. Only about 30 of them exist today.
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Brittney Griner will have her jersey number retired by Baylor University on Sunday. Griner has had a complicated relationship with her Baptist alma mater, whose policies kept her from publicly talking about her identity as a queer woman. (via
@19thnews
)
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...And if Black people can’t afford to live in the city, “you could seriously say New York City isn’t the greatest city in the world,” said filmmaker Spike Lee. From
@troy_closson
&
@nicole_hong
of the
@nytimes
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In 2020, Patrick Braxton became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama. Then came the problems: He was locked out of Town Hall, followed by a drone, unable to retrieve the town’s mail and financial accounts, and more.
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WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been held in Russian detention for nearly ten months, has been released. Her captivity underscored for many how deeply rooted anti-Blackness, and LGBTQ hostility permeates across national borders.
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Black people in rural communities face higher rates of food insecurity than their white counterparts. This extends to the recent formula shortage.
@aallyahpatrice
looks at how mothers who depend on the WIC program are especially struggling:
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Kansas City MO police denied claims that a serial killer was targeting Black women.
@KCDefender
covered the story anyway. A month later, a woman said she had been kidnapped and raped. We spoke with the site's founder about sticking with the story:
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Rep.
@ayannapressley
responds to how the HELP Act could help people like Janahya: It would stop credit reporting of evictions, fund legal help, and mandate better data collection so that we can see harmful trends.
#CapitalBLive
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Since Florida Gov. DeSantis’ administration blocked an AP course on African American studies, Black scholars gave us a list of foundational works:
✅W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
✅Abdul Alkalimat, The History of Black Studies
✅James Baldwin, A Letter to My Nephew
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A 36-year-old white man was arrested for killing a 13-year-old Black child in Columbus, OH. After he told the police he shot Sinzae Reed in self-defense, the charges against him were dismissed. Months later, the shooter remains free.
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“I haven’t seen one light truck. No tree truck. I haven’t seen one power truck.”
Surrounded by snapped power lines and toppled oak trees, the Fort Myers Black community is beginning the long road to recovery after Ian.
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One story we're reading is by
@NadraKareem
of
@19thnews
who looks at why Black principals, particularly women principals, are linked to better student performance:
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Six former law enforcement officers in Rankin County, Mississippi, have been indicted in federal court today on charges of violating the civil rights of Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins in January. National criminal justice reporter
@ChrisCarrega
with a 🧵on how we got here:
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Michael Corey Jenkins says he was shot in the mouth while handcuffed by white deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi. I spoke to Jenkins while in MS to get his story. His voice comes out as a barely audible, slurred mumble.
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We're getting close to launch and we want to hear from you! Tell us: What Black issues/stories aren't getting enough attention in mainstream news? Hit us up in the replies or email tips
@capitalbnews
.org.
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