This moment demands that individuals, institutions, and communities make equitable room for Black expertise on all matters. This moment demands that we see Black people, especially Black women, in every level of leadership, including on the Supreme Court. Photo by Cory Clark / NurPhoto via Getty Images Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman’s new book, The Black Agenda: … Read more
Pamela Moses became permanently ineligible to vote after pleading guilty in 2015 to two felonies Memphis activist Pamela Moses has been sentenced to six years and one day in prison for illegally registering to vote in 2019. Moses, 44, was convicted of November 2021 for the crime registering to vote with a felony conviction on … Read more
Members of the Greenfield High School boys basketball team wear shirts saying “My Name is Not Boy” in support of Omar Surveyor (first row, third from left), who said the school’s athletic director, Trent Lower, called him a racial slur. A Greenfield High School parent is asking that the school’s athletic director be fired after … Read more
In 1853 Frederick Douglass wrote of towns in the north: Every hour the black man is put out of work by a newly arrived emigrant, whose hunger and whose color would give him a better title to the place. With only a handful of interruptions, black workers have faced the same situation for nearly two … Read more
On January 24, Alabama became the second state (after Ohio) to receive a new convention card crushed in court. But while Ohio’s map was thrown out by the state Supreme Court for violating the state constitution, Alabama’s map was overturned by three federal judges who found the map under-represented black voters in Congress. That’s a … Read more
Georgetown University in 2013.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Georgetown Law says it sent Ilya Shapiro on leave just a day before he was due to go to college. A black rights sorority called for Shapiro’s resignation after he criticized President Biden for committing to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court. Shapiro said a university investigation would … Read more
This is all, in a way, to be expected. It affirms Biden’s political messaging — the back-to-normalcy he promoted during the campaign, the implicit promise that he would be a boring president you wouldn’t have to think about, and the overall return to a man in the White House who resembles a 20th-century politician more … Read more
Ketanji Brown Jackson, links, Kandidatin für das US-Berufungsgericht für den DC Circuit, und Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, Kandidatin für das US-Berufungsgericht für den Seventh Circuit, werden während ihrer Anhörung vor dem Justizausschuss des Senats im April vereidigt 28., 2021. (Tom Williams-Pool / Getty Images) Etwas abonnieren Die Nation Abonnieren Sie jetzt für nur 2 $ pro Monat! … Read more
The school board of Placentia Yorba Linda is discussing a proposal for a resolution to ban the teaching of critical racial theory in schools. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for just $ 2 per month! Thank you for signing up The nation‘s weekly newsletter. … Read more
Zoom in on the jet with the black hole and watch it in different radio wavelengths reveals more detailed structures. Statue: J.Y. Kim, Boston University Blazar program and the EHT collaboration. (MPIfR) A worldwide network of telescopes has produced an image of a beam of radio waves that seems to come out the center of … Read more