This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. From their living room on Saratoga Avenue, on Detroit’s east side, Deborah Taul and her husband have spent countless days listening, waiting to hear if the gunshots are close enough to worry about. […]
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Mississippi AG Says Police Shooting That Killed 1-Year-Old Was ‘Justified’
Kohen Kartier Wiley would have turned 2 on Nov. 1, but instead of celebrating his birthday, his family is sitting with grief and anger months after he was shot by a police officer. “You shot my grandbaby from the side of the car,” his grandmother Veronica Roberson said Thursday as she stood in Senatobia Church […]
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A Teenager’s Death Exposes the Gun Violence Crisis Facing HBCU Homecomings
This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. Tamika Johnson nodded her head up and down in acknowledgment as her husband, Larry, questioned whether the ambulance she saw on her cellphone could be carrying their teenage son. The couple was rushing […]
Posted inHealth, Partner Content, Reproductive Health
In a Texas Prison, This Black Woman Turned Scraps of Paper Into a Menopause Lifeline
This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th. For most of Kwaneta Harris’ life, menopause was not something she heard people talk about. She didn’t learn about much beyond hot flashes, night sweats and irregular periods in her nursing school training, or at any point during her decade-long career in the medical […]
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Family of Pregnant Woman Who Died After She Couldn’t Get An Abortion in Texas Sues
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. The family of a woman who died after she could not get an abortion in Texas is suing doctors and state officials including Attorney General Ken Paxton. It is the first […]
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Tasia Fortune: Suspect Arrested in Hanging Death in Mississippi
For more than a month, Tasia Fortune’s family has waited for answers after she was found hanging from a tree outside a vacant house in Jackson, Mississippi. This week, authorities arrested a suspect. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for Jarques Ratliff, […]
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Candace Owens Has Won the Trust These Women Refuse to Give Politicians
This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th. In 2016, Candace Owens emerged as a leading conservative voice, the rare Black woman backing then-candidate Donald Trump. In 2017, she was hired by Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit co-founded by Charlie Kirk. In 2020, she announced that she’d be joining The Daily […]
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Keshia Golden, Who Said She Killed Boyfriend in Self-Defense, Accepts Plea Deal
This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani of The 19th. Content warning: This story references incidents of domestic violence. Keshia Golden, a Black mother and survivor of domestic violence who says she accidentally killed her boyfriend in self-defense, accepted a plea deal for involuntary manslaughter that would allow her to avoid jail time. She […]
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Cori Bush’s Primary Loss Further Hurts Black Women’s Chances for Representation in Congress
This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay of The 19th. Former Democratic Rep. Cori Bush will not be returning to Congress after failing to retake her old seat from Rep. Wesley Bell in the heated primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ. Bush was first elected to […]
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How One Black Family Has Held Onto Their Land for Generations
It is early in the planting season for Elister Charleston and his family. And, as he has come to know in his eighty years of farming, before the faithful sun breaks into the sky, before he gets himself cleaned up and dresses in his blue jeans, shirt and cap, before he makes his black coffee […]
