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Prominent Beaufort Pastor Kenneth Hodges has died. ‘It’s a shock to the whole congregation’
The Rev. Hodges was known for his community activism and spearheaded an effort to create a monument to abolitionist Harriet ...
Florence historical marker honoring state’s first Black representative destroyed
An historic marker near the site of where South Carolina’s first Black representative was assassinated was destroyed recently ...
Milwaukee Community Journal1d
Rev. Bryant and the Black Press Won’t Let Target Off the Hook
By Stacy M. Brown BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent Rev. Jamal Bryant is urging Black Americans to keep the ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle1d
Habeas corpus: A thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that’s getting a workout under the Trump administration
Habeas corpus is a critical safeguard of liberty. In the words of Chief Justice John Marshall in the seminal 1803 case, Marbury v. Madison, the “very essence” of civil liberty is “the right to claim ...
The New Republic1dOpinion
The Supreme Court Could Take Another Shot at Voting Rights
If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy2d
A Historic Black Community’s Vision for Environmental Justice Persists Despite EPA Grant Freeze
Union Heights, a historic Black settlement community in North Charleston, SC, has been poised for transformative ...
The Washington Informer2d
Black Mayors Confront Trump Era
Dr. Christopher Harvey, the mayor of Manor, Texas, attended the 2025 African American Mayors Association conference to ...
The Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer is enabling injustice
Harmeet Dhillon's brief tenure at the Civil Rights Division has already made clear what cases are no longer worth the Justice ...