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Florida Woman Sprays Bear Mace on Two Black Girls Playing With Bubbles
Two young girls were playing in their yard when their 81-year-old white neighbor allegedly unleashed a chemical weapon — and a familiar kind of hate.
Jun 7
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Quintessa L. Williams
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Jasmine Crockett Aims to Hold Elon Musk Accountable — Even If Congress Won’t
As Trump and Musk’s public feud captures headlines, the Texas congresswoman — now vying for top oversight — is signaling a potentially louder call for…
Jun 6
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Quintessa L. Williams
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May 2025
Back to the South: Harvard Settles Lawsuit Over Enslaved Images
Nearly two centuries after the university commissioned racist scientific images of Renty and Delia, their portraits are finally being returned where…
May 30
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Quintessa L. Williams
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We Carry Them Still: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the South’s Reckoning With Reform
As the nation marks the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s death, the South also reckons with Black lives lost and justice undone after the DOJ abandoned the…
May 25
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Quintessa L. Williams
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Stripping the South: How Medicaid Cuts Could Break Black Disabled Families
With up to $880 billion in cuts recently approved in the House, advocates warn that the threat to Medicaid is greater than ever — and Black families are…
May 19
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Quintessa L. Williams
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The Fire This Time: On the Burning of Nottoway Plantation
As flames consumed the South’s largest antebellum mansion, they set ablaze generations of unfinished reckonings between Black liberation and White…
May 17
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Quintessa L. Williams
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Florida Stands Out as a National Model in the War on Drugs — But for Whom?
New data ranks Florida among the best in the nation for treatment access and overdose prevention — but Black communities across the South are still…
May 14
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Quintessa L. Williams
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Kentucky Woman Says Under Trump, She Can Use the N-Word
After being confronted at a laundromat for using the slur, she told a Black woman she’s “protected” now that Donald Trump is president — and then called…
May 13
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Quintessa L. Williams
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Trump Abruptly Fires Carla Hayden, First Black Librarian of Congress
With over forty years in the field, she was the nation’s 14th Librarian of Congress — and the first Black woman to hold the position.
May 9
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Quintessa L. Williams
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“I Voted for Trump Because”: What These 3 Black Southern Voters Have to Say Now
In a rare conversation with Van Jones, three Black voters from the Carolinas explain why they supported Donald Trump—and why they’re not looking back.
May 7
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Quintessa L. Williams
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Still Separate, Still Unequal: Louisiana Turns Its Back on the Promise of Brown
The DOJ just closed the book on a decades-old desegregation order. But for many Black locals, the chapter on equality never ended.
May 6
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Quintessa L. Williams
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41 States, 19 Countries: Thank You for Reading 13th & South
Just one month after revamping my independent platform, 13th & South is being read in more places than I could’ve ever imagined.
May 5
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Quintessa L. Williams
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