The best Sunday school class I ever attended was taught by Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100. His Sunday school class still exists today as an ongoing family tradition in Plains. His niece, Kim Carter Fuller, now teaches the same class at ...
Book from Lee Hawkins, who grew up and experienced abuse in Maplewood, insists 'I Am Nobody's Slave'
Lee Hawkins, a Pulitzer Prize finalist who grew up in Maplewood and hosts podcast "What Happened in Alabama?," connects ...
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1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag (2023)
The one-million strong Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a backbone of the Brazilian left, famous for its mass actions and radical land occupations all across the Brazilian countryside.
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Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools during Jim Crow era
Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to ...
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Nickel Boys - Raw Jim Crow Era Movie Based on Real Atrocities
The history of our country isn’t always pretty, and it isn’t all in our history books. And a new film from Orion Pictures, ...
America’s oldest Black town is in metro-east. It’s dying, but there’s a fight to save it
Is it significant? Yes. Is it historical? Yes. Is it neglected? Yes. So, these things should be saved, not paved over and ...
Doug McIntyre: A second look at Jimmy Carter
Carter’s century-long fight for a better, kinder, fairer world undoubtedly accounts for the millions of us, even those of us ...
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From a dirt farm to the White House
Jimmy Carter was, first and foremost, a Southerner — the best kind of Southerner. He represented the New South we never quite ...
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Petersburg building recognized as new national historic landmark
The National Park Service nominated it as an “(e)xceptional example of International Style architecture designed by Amaza Lee Meredith (1895-1984), a Black queer woman in the Jim Crow South ...
America’s oldest Black town is in Illinois — and it’s dying. But the fight has begun to save it.
You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...
Jimmy Carter’s funeral begins by tracing 100 years from rural Georgia to the world stage
Carter’s long public goodbye began Saturday in the state where the 39th U.S. president was born, lived and died.
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In Paintings and Quilts, Stephen Towns Spotlights Black Leisure in the Jim Crow South
For artist Stephen Towns, Mozert's photographs and the history of Paradise Park provide the foundation for 'Private Paradise.