Lead Belly, a blues musician from Mooringsport, Louisiana, recorded a song called the “Scottsboro Boys,” dedicated to nine Black teenagers wrongfully accused of raping two White women on an Alabama ...

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When the decision came down on April 29, I was disappointed. I was not surprised. I have spent years writing about what it takes to get a veteran basic mental health care in this country, and that ...

When a county tried to turn back the clock — and a federal judge noticed. Add LEVEL on Google In Virginia’s Shenandoah County in 2019, there was a school named Stonewall Jackson High School, which had ...

I was at a retreat in Miami, Florida a few years ago. It was a writer’s workshop wherein mostly Black writers were getting a week with some dedicated professionals to unravel our gifts and decide ...

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An almost two billion‑dollar promise, reduced to a family‑only escape hatch.

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Before she was suggested by Donald Trump for appointment as an interim Senator from South Carolina to replace her deceased older brother, Lindsey Graham, I’d never heard of Darline Graham Nordone.

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