Land of the free, home of the brave? / With a quarter of the world’s prisoners – modern day slaves? / A declaration of ...

The Nineteen-21 Lounge had just been getting started, and then on June 11, there was a fire at an adjacent property that caused significant water and smoke damage to the Lounge, forcing it to close ...

Demonstrators from Haiti to France to San Francisco, London, Belize and Jamaica have demanded that France pay for the ransom it extracted from Haiti 200 years ago as the price for its independence and ...

Erika Rocha was 35 years old and one day away from her Youth Parole Hearing on April 15, 2016, when she committed suicide at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Corona. Since her death, the ...

Black America’s most prosperous community, Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, went up in flames June 1, 1921, in the KKK-led Tulsa Race Riot. According to Wikipedia, “During the 16 hours of the ...

UC Berkeley’s New Media might be new, but the racism is old. “Our-Race Bias” (ORB) happens thousands of times a day in America, but it is not podcast or uploaded to digital media. The Starbucks coffee ...

Kendrick Lamar performs the Halftime Show at Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9, 2025. – Photo: elisfke2, Flickr by Donald ‘C-Note’ Hooker Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime performance was more than ...

The economic might and ethical paradox of Israel’s diamond industry Israel’s foray into the Congolese diamond industry marks a significant chapter in its economic narrative. Since entering the diamond ...

African dance pictures – Photo: Honorable Cecilia Taylor’s archives The young change-agent, Cecilia Taylor, entered San Francisco State University in 1993, the same school her father, Moses Walker, ...

The shipyard, a notoriously toxic site, is just one of thousands of contaminated parcels around the Bay Area undergoing remediation. These cleanups take longer in marginalized communities, according ...

According to the American Burn Association, Virginia has just three facilities capable of dealing with severe burns. Two are in Richmond: the Evans-Haynes Burn Center at VCU Health, a state ...