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Struggle for control of public libraries in full swing across the Deep South
The culture wars are heating up the stacks as more than a third of the books banned during the 2023-2024 school year featured ...
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Local nonprofit launches civil rights education effort with ‘The Black Book’
To that end, the Black Book details a range of civil rights information, including racial profiling, police brutality and ...
How a grandfather’s legacy led Modern Green Book in supporting 2,300 Black businesses
The Modern Green Book has helped over 2,300 Black businesses survive the pandemic and anti-DEI campaigns during the platform's five-year existence.
‘Feels like you’re betraying your student.’ Librarians react to book bans in SC schools
The SC Board of Education is set to consider removing another group of books from schools this week. Local librarians say the ...
He Dreamed Up Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. It All Started With L.A.
Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they’re facing an altered ...
Calculator thieves from Texas sentenced under new Minnesota law aimed at cracking down on organized retail theft
Two Texas men who authorities say stole $18,500 in graphing calculators from eight east-metro Target stores last year are ...
‘You put them in hell. This court will now put you in yours’: Judge throws the book at white couple for forcing adopted Black kids to do hard labor, live in filthy shed
Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz were sentenced to more than 150 years each for treating their five Black adopted ...
Pardon me? Clemency for Derek Chauvin would be nuts.
President Trump is being urged by influential right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro to pardon Derek Chauvin, the white policeman ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream for Economic Affirmative Action. The Supreme Court Failed Him.
Such nostalgia can include favorable feelings for three Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices who, over the course of ...
Texas conservatives are using school board elections to exert influence over what students learn
In six Texas districts that used at-large voting systems, ideologically driven groups successfully helped elect school board ...
‘Stuck’ in place: Author traces America’s mobility crisis to a Modesto law enacted in 1885
In his insightful book about America's housing crisis, Yoni Appelbaum argues that more than a century of restrictive legislation has left so many stuck, unable to pursue opportunity.