COVID vaccine ban bill headed to South Carolina Senate floor
A bill to fine businesses that fire workers who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is headed to the South Carolina Senate floor. Lawmakers on the Senate Finance committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to advance the measure, which would also prevent […]
Read MoreAbolition newspaper revived for nation grappling with racism
By PHILIP MARCELO America’s first newspaper dedicated to advocating for the end of slavery is being resurrected and reimagined more than two centuries later as the nation continues to grapple with its legacy of racism. The revived version of The Emancipator is […]
Read MoreBlack innovators who reshaped American gardening, farming
By JESSICA DAMIANO The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. But many other agricultural practices, innovations and foods that traveled […]
Read MoreArbery killers convicted of federal hate crimes in his death
By RUSS BYNUM The three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’sshooting were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday in a verdict that affirmed what family members and civil rights activists said all along: that he was chased down […]
Read MoreCalifornia tribe confronts crisis of missing, murdered women
By GILLIAN FLACCUS The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast. But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with […]
Read MoreOnline harassment, real harm: Fixing the web’s biggest bug
By DAVID KLEPPER It should have been a time of celebration: Brittan Heller would soon graduate from college and head to one of the nation’s top law programs. But when a classmate with unrequited feelings for Heller wasn’t admitted to […]
Read MoreOn the slopes, a struggle for Black skiers’ Olympic dreams
By AARON MORRISON Take an informal survey of elite American Alpine skiers and snowboarders, and most can name an organization that exposes Black and Hispanic children from urban areas to winter sports. Whether it’s on indoor halfpipes in New Jersey, […]
Read MoreOfficer charged in Floyd killing says he deferred to Chauvin
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER A former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s killing testified that he deferred to Derek Chauvin because he was his senior officer and that’s what he had been trained to do. J. Alexander […]
Read MoreKupp’s late TD lifts Rams over Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl
By BARRY WILNER In a venue built for champions, the Los Angeles Rams carried off the crown jewel: a Super Bowl trophy. It took a precise 79-yard drive capped by Cooper Kupp’s 1-yard touchdown reception with 1:25 remaining for a […]
Read MoreErin Jackson of US 1st Black woman to win speedskating gold
Erin Jackson became the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics. A gold one, at that. Jackson won the 500 meters Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal […]
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