By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, Word in Black On a humid August afternoon in 2020, two caskets ― one silver, one white ― sat by holes in the ground at a small, graveside service in the town of Travelers Rest, South Carolina. The family had just lost a mom and dad, both to Covid-19. […]
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#WordinBlack: Acts of racial violence don’t happen in a bubble – they happen in America
By Alexa Spencer, Word in Black Two things are clear about the recent mass killing of Black people on May 14 in a Buffalo, New York grocery store. First, the attack committed by 18-year-old White male Payton Gendron that resulted in the death and injury of 11 Black people was an outright racist act. Second, […]
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#WordinBlack: Love letters to Black women from 5 organizations that care about their health
By Alexa Spencer, Word in Black Every day is a good day to honor Black women. They birth the Black community (even in the most difficult conditions), raise up world leaders and change-makers, and devote their lives to creating and advocating solutions. While Black mamas are known for protecting everyone, folks are now gathering to […]
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#WordinBlack: The Hornet’s Nest: Washington, D.C.’s First African American Fire Station
This post was originally published on The Washington Informer By Roland Hesmondhalgh Engine Company 4 is a woefully unknown player in the history of both the Washington, D.C., fire department and racial equality in America. Created in 1919 at the request of every African American fireman in Washington, D.C. — all three of them — the company has […]
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Why Health Concerns Are at the Heart of the New Amazon and Starbucks Unions
By Alexa Spence for Word in Black When news broke on April 1, that Amazon workers in Staten Island, N.Y. had managed to organize the first union in the notoriously anti-union company’s 27-year history, a common refrain across social media went something like this: This is not an April Fool’s Day joke. The news was […]
