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In the 1930s, a woman named Janie Bell Williams got a job at a school in Butlertown, an African American…
This story originally ran in 1982 as part of the “Black L.A.: Looking at Diversity” series. We have preserved the…
Editor’s Note: This story comes from an episode that Gulf States Newsroom reporter Shalina Chatlani produced for the Living Downstream…
The company called it one of the most generous industrial buyouts in history.But Sasol, the South African chemical firm, offered…
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On a cloudy Saturday afternoon in Crenshaw, Danny Bakewell Sr.’s name is almost inescapable.“Everything he touches has made an impact…
Southern California beachfront property that was taken from a Black couple through eminent domain a century ago and returned to…
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation,…
Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy said that the state’s poor maternal mortality rate is only an “outlier” because of the high…
Two couples stand on a walkway at the Bruce’s Beach resort in Manhattan Beach, Calif., circa 1920. A few years…