For decades, the Albina district in Portland, Oregon, was the center of the city’s Black community. Local musicians transformed the neighborhoods into a hotspot for the West Coast’s jazz, blues, and soul music scenes, earning Albina the nickname “Jumptown” in the 1940s and ‘50s. Milestones in Oregon’s civil […]
On Sunday (Aug. 10), five journalists with Al Jazeera were killed after an Israeli airstrike near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Among them was the prominent frontline correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who along with Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda won the Human Rights Defender Award from Amnesty International […]
Nationwide — A former corrections officer in New York has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the 2023 beating death of Robert Brooks, an African American inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility. The assault was caught on bodycam video and linked to […]
This story is part of “Trump Two: Six Months In,” our series taking stock of the administration’s efforts to reshape immigration enforcement and criminal justice. Over the last six months, Rodney Taylor has watched the Trump administration’s explosion in immigration enforcement from a detention cell […]
The family of a Black man who died after being sucked into an MRI machine in Westbury, New York, has launched a GoFundMe page to cover funeral costs and other expenses. According to News 12 Long Island, on July 16, 61-year-old Keith McAllister was at Nassau Open MRI […]
Last year, as part of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, students from colleges around Michigan came to G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility to take courses with students who were incarcerated there. These classrooms created an outlet for us to talk to one another on equal ground, […]
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