One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he inspired many, including a young John Wilson, born in 1922 to Guyanese immigrants in the working-class neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Wright, who established himself in the literary world in the decade before Wilson emerged in art, profoundly impacted the modern artist - his words appear in the political prints and paintings Wilson would go on to make.
This is the site of the Florida state historical marker commemorating Arthur Lee McDuffie, a Black insurance broker and former US Marine whose 1979 beating death at the hands of Miami police ignited one of the most consequential uprisings in the city's history. A plaque unveiled in February 2024 at the site of his attack finally acknowledged the violence that fractured McDuffie's skull and the community-wide outrage that followed.
She was 7 years old when the two-day attack began on Tulsa's Greenwood district on May 31, 1921, after a local newspaper published a sensationalized report about a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman. As a white mob grew outside the courthouse, Black Tulsans with guns who hoped to prevent the man's lynching began showing up. White residents responded with overwhelming force.
A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. "Fed Independence Reaches Its Moment of Truth as Supreme Court Weighs Cook's Fate; High court to decide whether Trump can remove board member, which former officials see as threat to central bank independence": Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
Eight months ago, if you said that the second coming of MAGA would, in broad daylight, wheel the Confederacy back in, you would have been called an alarmist. It would have seemed like overblown anxieties typical of the antiracist wingnuts or the woke to say that those who sought to make America great again would, like the first MAGA movement, the Redeemers, attempt to re-stage slavery.
Ministers from every party in the province's power-sharing executive strongly condemned the racially motivated violence witnessed in recent days, stressing the need for unity and rejection of a divisive agenda.
