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Last summer, unsolicited home deliveries sent Americans into a panic. The writer Chris Heath has discovered an explanation that many, including the USDA, don’t believe. USDA Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts Last summer, an unexplained phenomenon gripped nightly newscasts and Facebook groups across …

John Lewis’ legacy is nothing short of legendary. From his work to expand voting rights to his activism for poor and working class people, the civil rights giant left this world a better place than he found it. Lewis is also leaving behind his last literary testament on the one-year …

0 Photo Courtesy of KTLA A California mother is devastated after her one-year-old son was killed by his father. According to KTLA, Ryanna Jones told the news outlet that Shane Flowers informed her that he hit their baby boy, Dee’Ago Alexander Jones after he tripped over a video game controller …

Image: BlurryMe (Shutterstock) A federal lawsuit has been filed against Albuquerque’s public school district, accusing the district of discriminating against a Black student due to her hair. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Saturday that the lawsuit was filed last month in New Mexico’s U.S. District Court, which has scheduled …

(Bill Greenblatt / UPI / Alamy) In Missouri, the reprieve was brief. Now the hospitals are full again—some fuller than they were last time. My colleague Ed Yong has a wrenching new report on the state of hospitals there, where unvaccinated communities are being pummeled by the Delta variant. The …

Gloria Richardson, the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside the Deep South and one of the nation’s leading female civil rights advocates, died Thursday (July 15) at age 99. Richardson’s granddaughter, Tya Young, said Richardson died in her sleep in New York City and had …

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.’s announcement of its 2021 honorary inductees on July 15 has some folks scratching their heads over one of its newest members. The 113-year-old first Black Greek-lettered organization for Black American women shared the news on its official Twitter account. “We are thrilled to welcome 8 …

Pharrell Williams performs onstage during the 7th Biennial UNICEF Ball on April 14, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Rich Polk (Getty Images) A tech startup founded by two Black entrepreneurs is getting a $1 million boost, thanks to Pharrell Williams and his Black Ambition prize competition. Black Ambition, a …

As America struggled to recover from a global pandemic, a shattered economy, and record unemployment levels, headlines despaired: “NECKTIES DOOMED.” Men were “slashing their clothing bills” to retailers’ chagrin, the Associated Press reported. Those who continued to wear ties were downgrading from colorful, expensive silk to plain, cheap cotton. The …

A federal judge sentenced a former St. Louis cop who brutally beat a Black undercover colleague he thought was a protester to four years in prison Tuesday (July 14). Randy Hays, 34, pleaded guilty in 2019 to using excessive and unreasonable force during a September 2017 incident where he and …